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The cut in 0:09-0:14 must be one of the the most underrated cuts here. The timing, details and perspective concistency on the backround animation are perfection. Idk why its so satisfying to watch. Maybe the diversity in shapes,architecture and colors in the buildings along with random extra enviroment details.

Honestly this gives some of the best Yutapon city backround animation cuts a run for its money. Webgen 20 year old Itano getting into the industry today would be a sight to be hold
GKalai said:
The cut in 0:09-0:14 must be one of the the most underrated cuts here. The timing, details and perspective concistency on the backround animation are perfection. Idk why its so satisfying to watch. Maybe the diversity in shapes,architecture and colors in the buildings along with random extra enviroment details.

Honestly this gives some of the best Yutapon city backround animation cuts a run for its money. Webgen 20 year old Itano getting into the industry today would be a sight to be hold
I consider that bit to be my favorite cut of animation personally, or at least in the top 5. For me it's just that the cut is the whole package; perfect mastery of perspective, little details like people in the buildings, and even someone's nude posters, being drawn, and the outlines of the Kaiju images on the billboard behind the thruster exhaust still being drawn as it passes, the mecha and the car are both moving fluidly and dynamically at once, and we get nice well timed rubble effects integrated in at the same time. It's just incredibly dense with information.

Itano really was someone special. Even personality wise, he seems one of a kind, supposedly getting the idea for his missile circus by charging at his friend on a motorcycle with fireworks strapped to it while drunk ( and then being slightly lit on fire and crashing), and doing research for Macross Plus by actually getting a US military pilot to take him along and do demanding enough maneuvers that he passed out in the process. He was not the kind of person you would expect to be an animator.
Reign_Of_Floof said:
supposedly getting the idea for his missile circus by charging at his friend on a motorcycle with fireworks strapped to it while drunk ( and then being slightly lit on fire and crashing)
PARDON???
Sabotower said:
PARDON???
https://schoolgirlmilkycrisis.com/2010/11/14/entering-the-itano-circus/

"Yes, I say timidly. Which brings me back to my original question. Why exactly did you strap fifty fireworks to your motorbike?

Itano looks at me askance, as if wondering if I am dim.

“Well,” he says, “that was as many as I could fit. You know, some on the mud guards, some on the cowling, some on the –”

Yes, I say. I see that. But perhaps we are talking at cross-purposes about the meaning of “why”. Why did you do it?

“Oh,” he replies. “We’d been told that it was dangerous. So obviously, we decided to try it. I had my bike on the beach. And my friend had his, and we rode out a ways to give ourselves plenty of run-up, and then we charged each other. On the motorbikes.”

And then, I ventured meekly, you lit the fireworks?

“That’s right. They were all linked together with fuse cord, but I still had to light them. Did you know that a Zippo lighter is still windproof at eighty miles an hour? That’s really impressive, isn’t it?

“So anyway, I lit the fireworks, but they all kind of went off at once. There was this sudden, explosive cloud of smoke, and then there were rockets and firecrackers in my face, looping past me, around me… and it was really weird, sometimes they seemed to hang in space for a moment, as if they weren’t going anywhere. It was because I was still moving, along with them. Relative velocities, you see! Some were moving faster, others slower. And the smoke trails behind them billowed out in yet another direction, carried off by the wind, which was blowing in its own direction, nothing to do with the direction my bike was going. Or not going. Because I fell off. And I think my clothes were on fire by this point.

“So, you know… that’s a daft thing to do. Even if you’re twenty years old and drunk, it’s not recommended. The biking around on the beach is actually more fun than the actual fireworks… But I’m an artist. I put that experience to use. There was a storyboard on an anime show that had a pilot’s eye view of missiles coming towards him. And I said, you know what, that’s not what it looks like. It’s not so linear. I’ve been in the middle of a bunch of rockets going off, and they snake all around you. They don’t always go in the same direction! There are duds, and ones with unexpectedly high charges, and always smoke going in a direction you don’t expect. So I put all that in, and in the show we got this massive explosion of rockets and contrails. And it was pretty good!"
holy SHIT! I was not expecting that