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and how much drawing these studios can proceed? if douga is this fast that mean only Storyboard, KA, and sakkan works are the only phases that take days to process?
It's a last resort that usually results in terrible quality. If you're absolutely out of schedule, then digital 2nd key - tween - coloring outsourced to China will get it done in 2-3 days and you get to enjoy wonders like Twintails.
Do you know how much studios like KyoAni and P.A. Works are outsourcing to Korea?
No.
Do you believe in happy endings?
I hate it when people ask about belief regarding facts.
Have you heard complaints about 2016 sale-wise? The sales 2016 are totally in contrast to 2015 which was the top.
People won't comment on it just yet. There's still half a year left.
for each episode there is a meeting between series director, Chief writer, and both the script writer and the enshutsu for that episode?
No. Normally episode directors aren't involved in pre-production. The director is of course supposed to be there every meeting related to the (contents of the) show.
What is the best way to learn a foreign language?
Immersion.
What song is stuck in your head?
不確定性 cosmic movement
do you watch anime in CR or just watch the TV stream?
I don't watch anime with subs.
is it ethical for a PA that moved to a new studio to use his old studio's contacts?
Yes. Contacts are the only power of production staff.
Hello Vale, some people saying that "A1 don't have an actual animation staff", what they're mean? No permanent spots/desks for animators?
I don't know why'd anyone say that. A1 has staff as usual in the industry.
http://ask.fm/valerauko a exclusive contact with a running salary, a yearly leave, and other benefits like health insurance
Very few companies do that.
are most studios hiring fresh people to bee full time employees as a tweeners and training them ?
Define your concept of "full time employee"
why there is a controversy about how much the budget affect the production quality?
You're asking the wrong person. For me the mystery is why do people care so much.
which type of animators lineP and production team like more, Fast and deliver his scenes always in time, or a really good animators but sometime he overdue his works?
Let's make it clear: in this industry even just "sometime overdue" counts as great (since it's not "always overdue"). For short schedule shows that don't put a big focus on muh sakuga, of course the former are preferred, while for sakuga festa shows with preferably big budgets and long schedules, the latter.
What are the main reasons for recap episodes from studio's pov?
The scheduled episode didn't make it on time. It's usually a disaster nonetheless, since latter episodes have to be reformatted too, as the remaining story has to be fit into one less episodes. Negative spiral at its worst.
from what you have been told and from your experience, are there many animators who stop caring about the quality of their works that even asian studios do better job that them?
There are overseas studios who do quality work and there are animators in Japan who don't.
tweeting=tweening XD
anyway, hiring tweeners can safe good amount of time and money?
No, not really.
is it possible to have tweeting animators or studios to be paid in salary based rather than per drawing?
Yes of course. It is possible.
What makes you feel really uncomfortable?
Mentally disabled people.
Would translating something E-J be about the same difficulty as J-E for you?