Don't normally venture around these parts, but I figured

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>>15110167
>unnatural animation
what's natural animation according to you then?

>>15110184
The movement was beautifully fluid, but the timing felt off to me. Like, I thought the MC was a robot at first because of the way he moved. Which would have been a pretty cool way to show it desu. But no he's just a typical manchild.

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>>15110193
He moves in a stilted and awkward way because he feels trapped and constrained, and won't let himself do what he really wants.
It's perfectly appropriate.

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>>15110201
Fair point, but it took me out of the story regardless of artistic intent. Actually my favorite part of that short was the kids playing football that dudes' head, that shit was hilarious.

And to answer your previous question, I'd say something like this looks natural to me. Though I'm not discrediting other styles of animation, that's the whole fucking appeal of an anthology anyway.

>>15110208
Rotoscoping (aka one of the uncanniest, most awkward-looking types of animations) feels natural to you?

Is this some sort of nxtlvl bait?

Are you a robot?

>>15110213
>implying you can't rotoscope well

Guess Snow White's garbage then. Also I think only part of that webm is rotoscoped.

>>15110167
Yeah, Franken's Gears was nice.

A Tale of Two Robots was my favourite.

>>15110223
You certainly can rotoscope well, but only when it doesn't look rotoscoped.
Your webm looks almost entirely rotoscoped.

Are you Ralph Bakshi?

>>15110229
I don't really agree with that. For me that particular clip doesn't have that "floaty" feeling I dislike about a lot of rotoscoping. And even if the technique is apparent, as long as the end product looks good to me that's all I really care about.

>Ralph Bakshi

Never seen any of his movies actually.
>>15110228
That one was pretty fun too. Did the subbers really expect me to understand a word that mad scientist nigga was saying though?

>>15110262
>as long as the end product looks good to me that's all I really care about
I know, i'm just explaining you that your idea of "natural" animation is extremely outlandish.

>>15110268
I think you're getting too hung up on my use of the word. I was just trying to say it looked "unnatural" to me, not that it was poorly animated. Basically it goes back to this:

>as long as the end product looks good to me that's all I really care about.

I'm guessing that's your favorite short. Mind sharing what you liked about it?

>>15110277
>I was just trying to say it looked "unnatural" to me, not that it was poorly animated.
Yes. I know. And I'm just explaining you that your idea of "natural" animation is extremely outlandish.

>Mind sharing what you liked about it?
everything

>>15110278
It's just my honest personal preference, nothing outlandish about it. Maybe it's outlandish on this board, but again, I have no way of knowing and not really interested in assuming. And I just plucked a webm quickly on hand, something like Only Yesterday would probably fit your criteria better.

>everything

OK cool, I liked the football head part the most.

>>15110290
It's not really part of the short, it's the studio's intro.

>>15110377
Eh, it's pretty much the opening credits. That shit still counts. I will say I think the short's portrayal of loss and regret is poignant, though thematically and emotionally Franken's Gears clicked with me much more. Gotta love man's ingenuity and folly.

>>15110228
A tale of two robots was great

I remember watching Robot Carnival on Saturday Anime on the Sci-Fi Channel. Deprive was my favorite segment. It felt like it had animators from Z and ZZ Gundam working on it.

Nightmare is easily my favorite.
Cloud is overrated.
Tale of Two Robots's dub is a masterpiece.

>>15110229
okay