Questions tagged [anime-production]
Questions pertaining to the process of writing, animating, distributing, or otherwise creating anime. This tag generally should NOT be used for questions about things like characterization, thematic elements, or other artistic concerns and certainly not for identification requests.
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What is the term for the shading across anime characters' faces when they are mortified or terrified?
I often see in anime that when a character is mortified, terrified, etc., this shading comes across their face. Different from the forehead shading. I just want to know if it has a name.
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Why do older TV anime use non-animated shots?
Although I don't watch 60's and 70s TV anime that often, but some anime that I saw had shots that weren't animated, there are shots that's a single cel without camera movement or a single cel with the ...
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Where do animes get ambient sounds from?
There is an ambient sound that I've heard a lot of times in many different animes. I've never paid attention to which production companies did those animes, but every time I hear that ambient sound in ...
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How many Akira Toriyama mangas have animated series?
As far as I know, the mangas from Akira Toriyama which got animated are Dr Slump, Dragon Ball and Sand Land. But I remember seeing 1 or 2 shorts animes more from him, one which had a Freezer-looking ...
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What inspries the child and adult characters from Shin Chan to have squished heads and rigid jaws?
Before I begin, it's important to note that the way heads are drawn varies from art style depending on the mass of the width and length of a head of a skinny character or the mass of the width and ...
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Why are older anime releases (DVD/Blu-ray) at 30fps?
When I've bought (including imports) anime on DVD and Blu-ray, I often find that older ones around the 90s and specifically the 2000s will sometimes be at 30fps on the disc.
24fps or 30fps?
I was sure ...
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Was digital pre-visualization used outside of the performance scenes in Bocchi The Rock?
I am curious about the animation methods or pipeline used in everyday, normal scenes in Bocchi The Rock!. This would be segments like walking and talking and not the stylized scenes.
Based on this ...
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In the making of Blue Eye Samurai, what software was used, how many people participated, and how long did it take?
In November 2023, Netflix began streaming Blue Eye Samurai. What software was used to make it, how many people did it, and how long did it take to produce it?
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Why do 2D drawn frames of anime always have line art and rarely line art in different colors?
Why do 2D hand-drawn frames of anime always have black line art? anime rarely has different colored line art like anime having blue line art? Why do drawn frames of anime always have black line art?
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Why are characters drawn differently in every shot in Hakushon Daimaou?
Unlike CGI or stop-motion, hand-drawn animation allows the artist to do a lot of drawings, although characters will be drawn differently on the next shots which the animation is either made by one ...
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Why do 70s anime use hatching so much?
Despite 2D animation being sequential still drawings and being a drawn medium such as illustration and comics, it uses the fundamentals of drawing such as line, form, and shape. It also uses drawing ...
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What is this kind of Highlight for the hair called?
I'd like to know what's this type of hair highlight called?
In the application Koikatsu, it is called "lighting" highlight.
I am wondering if this is the correct name?
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How do I find reliable sources listing anime producers?
How do I find official or reliable first-hand sources for which companies produce an anime series? I usually refer to MyAnimeList and Anime News Network, but I cannot find official or company ...
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Which was the last anime (episode) to be aired in 4:3 that doesn't have a widescreen version?
I am looking for the last anime episode to be aired in 4:3 as part of regular programming that is not a gimmick.
Last episode aired in 4:3
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2010-03-25
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Gintama
2009-03-26
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Why do anime don't have closing logos at the end of the series?
In western TV programs, the show ends with a closing logo, usually one or two closing logos. In anime, they end the show with a preview and no closing logos. Why don't anime have closing logos at ...
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