WTBorp said:
At least most of this is Aoyama, confirmed via the commentary track. Not sure about the first few cuts.

Eww cg crowds

I hate to be that guy but I was thinking the same thing rewatching the scene, you have Hiroyuki Aoyama of all people in charge too. Probably one of the last people in the entire industry that needs that kind of assistance.

You're both right, though given how close the movie cut it, I'm not surprised they made concessions like this. Toho would do well to encourage an ampler production cycle moving forward because that's two consecutive Shinkai films that barely made the deadlines after Your Name's more comfortable margins.

Hopefully, I'm still glad we got shots like 0:38 and 1:12 that gives a good glimpse of Aoyama's expertise in this specific area, though an unfortunate compromise was made this is still the best scene in the entire movie in my opinion. Aoyama is so skilled at what he does he's able to steal the show w/o showing the full extent of his prowess.

KamKKF said:
Hopefully, I'm still glad we got shots like 0:38 and 1:12 that gives a good glimpse of Aoyama's expertise in this specific area, though an unfortunate compromise was made this is still the best scene in the entire movie in my opinion. Aoyama is so skilled at what he does he's able to steal the show w/o showing the full extent of his prowess.

That is at least true. I just hate how this whole "Rush everything into production" thing has to be so embolic in this industry as it is. And you'd figure with someone like Shinkai, they'd give him and the animators more time to actually do things the way you'd expect them to. Like I understand the CGI for the cars, you kind of expect it. But the crowds definitely feel like overkill, and no amount of camera effects and trickery are going to obscure it.