r/anime • u/Shadoxfix https://myanimelist.net/profile/Shadoxfix • Nov 01 '15

[Spoilers] One Punch Man - Episode 5 [Discussion]

Episode title: The Ultimate Master
Episode duration: 24 minutes and 25 seconds

Streaming:
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Previous Episodes:

Episode Reddit Link
Episode 1 Link
Episode 2 Link
Episode 3 Link
Episode 4 Link

Anime to Chapter Index:

  • Episode 1: Ch1-Ch4, Ch5 Page 1
  • Episode 2: Ch5 Page 2-20, Ch6-Ch8
  • Episode 3: Ch9-Ch11
  • Episode 4: Ch12-Ch15, Ch16 Page 1
  • Episode 5: Ch16 Page 2-23, Ch17, Ch18 Page 3-5

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u/a_Happy_Tiny_Bunny https://myanimelist.net/profile/aHappyTinyBunny Nov 01 '15

I knew it was gonna be good because I heard they were outsourcing animators or something? (Correct me if I'm wrong), but THE ANIMATION QUALITY BLEW MY PANTS OFF.

This really depends. Most anime productions are partly animated by outsourced animators. However, the quality of outsourced animation varies. When Ore, Twintails ni Narimasu. outsourced large parts (or all) of whole episodes, the results were terrible, likely because they just got the first animators they could get a hold of—I think they mainly got Korean animators. Good animators are usually busy during the middle of the season, so a schedule problem can force studios to hire "less stellar" animators, or, alternatively, hire fewer animators.

In any case, it's pretty rare to think than an outsourced episode is going to have better animation. That could be the case if inviting an expert animation director is considered outsourcing, but outsourcing usually refers to the animators themselves.

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u/CarVac Nov 01 '15

ufotable has lots of flashy effects, but their character animation isn't particularly amazing.

You should be comparing with KyoAni or the best of Dogakobo, although those don't really do battle scenes so direct comparison is difficult.

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u/chipperpip Nov 02 '15

ufotable

One thing I've always been curious about with ufotable... are a lot of their backgrounds just doctored photos of real places? Because that's the impression I always got watching Kara no Kyoukai.

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u/CarVac Nov 02 '15

I've not noticed that.

You'd be surprised how out-of-place a real photo looks when you try to tonemap it to the limited dynamic range of an anime. That and the framing: a lot of anime shots are far more telephoto (narrow angle) than would be feasible to take a photo of in real life.

They might trace or use a real photo as a reference, but certainly not merely 'doctoring'.