Abe cooked again

Is the blade at 0:03 hand drawn?

Sus animaciones son increibles!

That light flare! Sooo cool.

Sus animaciones son increibles!

losingMind said:
Is the blade at 0:03 hand drawn?

Yes. The Kanjis were added in post-production, though.

I found the Sun Halo God scene to be way better, but this is still great. Probably also because I'm not really a fan of the compositing used for the mist effect.

By Abe's standards this is one of his lesser scenes. Still great of course. Hope to see him at least once more this season.

GoldenMonkey said:
I found the Sun Halo God scene to be way better, but this is still great. Probably also because I'm not really a fan of the compositing used for the mist effect.

Agree. Not to undermine Abe's work but I find that scene better paced, with slowdowns to make clear what is happening on screen. This one you can't really make out the choreography.

Just say GOD and move on

Holy fuck I’m gonna

Yeah, the compositing drags this scene down imo. The CG mist and the motion blur kind of mess with readability of the handdrawn effects. Still a cool scene regardless, of course...

JDMManga said:
Yeah, the compositing drags this scene down imo. The CG mist and the motion blur kind of mess with readability of the handdrawn effects. Still a cool scene regardless, of course...

All of the compositing are based off of notes made of Nozomu Abe. Ufotable prioritizes his stuff so they allow him to do that. So all of the blur effects and mist effects are placed there based off notes Abe put. Also I think the mist breathing effects were super well done, Ufotable has done all the breathings styles justice imo.