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A Glimpse Into the World of Japanese Animation
Pixelgroove writes "CGNetworks sports a story by Justin Leach (Softimage Special Projects Division), who had a unique chance to work at Production I.G in Japan on Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence and Kill Bill: Vol. 1. Prior to leaving Japan, he interviewed the Production I.G computer graphics animation team about their thoughts and perspectives on Japanese Animation (anime)."
Hello,
My name is Sun Low Chin. I am animator in Japan making unique Japanese animation called "anime". We like making anime as it reflect much Japanese culture. Much lately animation is not anime like but more Western style. It still have very different look but not same artwork and draw as traditional anime.
Very much good come from traditional anime and our culture show much respect to animation because anime is unique Japanese animation. The respect our culture shows to animation is obvious because of how anime is drawn to show very humble attitude and respect to traditional Japanese culture.
Contrary to what many say, anime is not dying. Netcraft will confirm this.
Best regards and much respect,
Sun Low Chin
Quang Ho Duck Animation Studios
Tokyo, Japan
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I'm personally more impressed with Afghanimation.
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This is kind of off-topic, but I recently had a discussion with some friends of mine where I mentioned how much my kids like "The Iron Giant." Surprisingly, everyone piped up and expressed similar affection for the film. The discussion went from there to the decline of Disney under Eisner, and the decline of American animation in general. (I belive Pixar has done some amazing work, but there was disagreement over this.)
Long story short, the consensus was reached that "The Iron Giant" was the last great hand-animated film by an American studio. Symbolically, this was also the last feature-length film made by WB's animation studios. Every great animated feature film since then has been almost exclusively Japanese.
May be because people should have the freedom to watch the film when the want to, not when the company manages to release it? And because some don't live in the US or Japan and the film will not be released in their country (if at all) for many months? If the film is good and people honest, they will go later to see it in the theatre or buy a DVD. And some people may not be willing to pay for it at all, but by making it available on P2P you can make their lives a little bit happier and possibly improve them as human beings (assuming GITS2 has some good messages/questions to ponder in it).
Are these reasons valid enough for you?
P.S. Am have not even started on your false accusations of copyright violation. Lord Dweomer didn't distribute the film, he just stated the fact that it is available on P2P networks - this is what BBC, CNN and everyone else like to do. And furthermore, in many countries downloading films does not violate copyright law. Is it finally enough?
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