How much value do you put into visual direction?

A lot, I'm a KyoAnifag

A lot, I'm a Shaftfag.

Not much, I'm a Ghiblifag.

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>>149871615
>SHAFTfags putting value into visual direction when they defend this.

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>>149871719
No matter how hard I try, I can't come up with anything to even consider defending this.

>>149871719
wtf am I looking at here?

>>149872731
light novel shit

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I put a lot of value into unusual visual direction

Anything Yuasa had a hand in
so ra no wo to
nagi asukara
the tanuki show

Shaft and Kyoani are really no good on that front.

>>149872823
>so ra no wo to
>nagi asukara
>the tanuki show
none of those are special on the direction front

A lot, I'm a Chanimefag.

>>149872731
Aniplex being jews and knowing this will sell even if they don't put alot of budget into it.

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>>149871719
This can't be real

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>>149871537
A lot. I literally just rewatched nagi no asukara a couple days ago solely because I remembered how visually appealing it was.

>>149873304
Aside from the backgrounds it looks very generic

>>149873957
Doesn't visual direction literally mean pretty backgrounds?

>>149873981
Literally no

>>149874450
hipster faggot

>>149873981
No.

Miuna is olev.

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>>149871537
Where does the limit of visual design lie?

>>149871719
I generally like SHAFT but this is indefensible.

>>149876334
If it stops looking like superior japanese instagram photograph filtered over one thousand times, it become hipster bullshit
>>149876628
Stop replying to yourself without even changing your IP

>>149872823
you don't like enough to watch better shit eh?

Just around 50 days until the next season, what will you be watching?

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>>149872823
>Kyoani is no good in that front

niceme.me

>>149876867
the entire ouvre of robert bresson, because I love visual direction so much

>>149876909
Why is this considered "good"?

>>149876867
certainly nothing from next season

>>149876945
it's not

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>>149876867

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Phantom World is definitely top 3 as far as visual direction and animation goes this year.

>>149877097
too bad it was a bad show, eh?

>>149877097
I'm at a loss to find something, anything, interesting about any of these shots. Is this an ironic video to make a show you didn't care for seem dull?

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Only plebeians can't appreciate Phantom World's tight visual direction and tasteful character animation.

>>149871719
White Fox should have did Zaregoto.

>>149877097
i don't think so. direction goes beyond just looking pretty, and it wasn't even good at doing that in most eps.

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@149877446
Low quality bait

Is Phantom World the /a/ equivalent of Wes Anderson films?

>>149877446
This.
Phantom World is Flip Flappers for plebs.
It wasn't even the best directed KyoAni work this year either.

>>149877564
not that Wes Anderson isn't absolute pleb shit, but he's a far better filmmaker than anyone at Kyoani right now

>>149877606
Flip Flappers is already for plebs

>>149877638
Who is the anime equivalent of Peter Greenaway?
>>149877804
Just shows how bad Phantom World is, then

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Visual direction of winter 2016

>>149877857
no one

>cancerous /tv/ tard spamming his fedora tipping cinegrids again

>>149878599
This is a visual direction thread after all.

>>149871719
Despite its shitty animation, it's actually nice cinematography.

>>149879148
no it's fucking abysmal

Top 3 visual direction of the year:

1. Flip Flappers
2. Mob Psycho
3. Phantom World

>>149879714
yeah, it's been a pretty sad year

>>149879714
>Flip Flappers
Not even top kek.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uAmLaD83zT8

>>149880423
The era of high budget IG/Madhouse movies is long gone

>>149880423
Patlabor 2 is shit anyway. Pretentious film with retarded plot. Anyone who knows real politics would laugh at how shallow it is in reality.

>>149880855
>plotfags

>>149880855
nice one anon you tell 'em

>>149878556
Wow, I don't remember a lot of these shots. It looks way better than I remembered it, and I even remembered it looking good.

>>149881965
why do you think those shots look good?

>>149881965
You were probably not paying attention like me when I watched it for the first time while it was airing. Re-watch was better.

>>149882018
No, no. I did pay attention. I liked the show, I just forgot about a lot of these shots. I am considering a re-watch, though. Just this week I rewatched eps 11-13.

About 5 value

>>149877313
You forgot that fucking walking scene

> people keep posting kyoani
> the studio that thinks visual direction means bloom, blur, and gradient filters instead of structured and deliberate use of colors, lighting, set design, costume design, and situational perspective.
> just like shaft they force 2deep4u metaphors into everything that really aren't deep or insightful, just philosophy and psychology 101 pleb shit

>>149883947
everything you said is nerd garbage
geek

>>149883947
>deliberate use of colors, lighting, set design, costume design, and situational perspective.
They also use that.

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>>149883947

>>149873981
There's a whole lot of other factors. The general shades you use (eg, bleed all colours towards say red or turquoise), general use of light and dark, how angular or rounded things look, and so on.

>>149871537
I'm blind.

>>149884405
>>149883628
>>149882072
>>149879812
>>149878556
>>149878480
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>>149877313
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>>149874699
Conflating direction and art/animation in this way only serves to imply that you have no idea what you're talking about.

>>149887021
trolled hard

Visual direction only leads to forced animation, off-model in-betweens and excessive lens flare.

>>149887135
>the arrangement of images in time only leads to being kyoto animation
holy shit, film was a mistake

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>>149887048

>>149871537
A LOT more than that.

>>149890584
this

>>149879714
1. Flip Flappers
2. Mob Psycho
3. Occultic;Nine

>>149887021
Art and animation is part of the visual direction

>>149892577
>Aku no Hana
>no Mushishi Zoku Shou

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>>149873304
Same here. That and the soundtrack.

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Very little.

Undeniable, yet unpopular fact: Plot trumps visuals.

Evidence: Anime is a derivative of manga/novels - which are plot driven. Art holds some value, but is nothing compared to the content of the story.

PA flops, like any other anime studio not named Kyoani, put more value into shitty working conditions than visual direction

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Just fuck my shit up: 2016 edition

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one of the best anime - visually speaking - of our lifetime

>>149892721
They're not mutually exclusivae, visual direction cn help with mood, the pacing,and the exposition

>>149871537
The best visuals humanity has ever seen + mediocre or bad story and characters = a total failure of an anime.

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>>149892927
is kyoani even trying?

>>149892721
A plot needs good storytelling.

>>149893027
Yet a novel needs no pictures. Thank you for furthering my point.

>>149893082
A novel needs good prose.

>>149893139
Prose is dictated by the author and isn't left to interpretation by the audience. Do you even read literature without pictures?

>>149893082
same thing applies to novels, dumb nigga

>>149893027
>>149893220
Twilight has an engaging plot

>>149893416
It's actually painful how obsolete this movie has became.
Literally blown the fuck out by Yamada in every single way.

The value I put into visual direction directly correlates to how much I like the show.
If the show is shit, then I don't give a fuck how amazingly unique it looks.

>>149893849
Will Maidragon be Nichijou lite?

>>149893895
In terms of production values? Don't think so. Looks like.it will be a cheap anime like AmaBuri, probably cheaper.

>>149893895
VEG is Kyoukai no Kanata 2 and Maidragon is Amaburi 2.

>>149893895
Maidragon = Lucky Star + Amagi
Violet Evargarden = Hyouka

>>149871537
I'm not even sure what visual direction means exactly. Sounds like some fancy buzz words. Do you mean good animation or art style or maybe both? Or weird camera angles to seem different and cool. What is it

>>149894087
How is VEG even remotely like Hyouka? Hopefully it's more interesting, at least, but I'm not about to place bets on a LN show.

>>149894087
Violet Evergarden is a shojo love triangle over the course of hundreds of years with robots. It will be episodic much like Phantom World. I would set your expectations much, much lower than Hyouka - if that's even possible.

>>149894087
>love triangle
sauce?

>>149894320
Take "spoilers" with a grain of salt. Even novelanon has admitted that he's tried to mislead people before.

The only thing to go by is the translated first chapter.

>>149879714
What about Shouwa Rakugo? Not good enough?

>>149894613
It was fairly competent, not great but I wouldn't put it below most of the other shows people are praising in this thread.

>>149871719
If this doesn't change in the blu ray I'm considering to be a piece of art.