Pokemon Sun and Moon: The Importance of New Anime Character Designs | Animator Spotlight | Tokyo

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1. Even after I have a split opinion . I mean look at pokemon generations. If they are really using a new animation style why doesn't generations have it? But then again i want to feel like sun and moon is just what they are using to see how the community feels about it. And something that also threw me of about this is if you look at the teaser for the new movie from the looks of it they are going back to the xy animations (Thats what im calling it). And i think you were wrong when you mentioned most people don't want to accept change. There are also people who actually think the animation was better the way it was at the started. They believe the animation was fine in the last generations. Some people believe instead of forcing all the changes at once they could have taken it one step at the time with the changes and kept the animations and kept the way the characters looked. I personally believe that the animation is great and all but I believe that the characters could have developed slowly instead of the huge step they took. Maybe if they would have taken it slow they could have found a way to keep the way the characters looked in the last generations. You may think its great but before you force your opinion onto your followers remember that its your OPINION. Some think the new style is great and some believe it was better before and you can change that. I believe that people aren't assholes for pausing frames to talk trash about the animation. They are pointing out what they believe are mistakes.
2. Thank you. As someone who want to become an animator I really do appreciate all animation at this point. I cannot stand when people call some animation shit or lazy because no matter what animation takes a lot of time and skill to get right
3. less detail = less money = more cool action scenes.
   The xy anime was always static except when there was a battle involved, with the 6 episodes out so far sticking to the same infrequency of battle it can still look nice without having to be in a fight
4. pokemon sun and moon anime is crap.
5. pokemon sun and moon anime is shitt!!!
6. Disney XD has taken Pokémon that's why they look different
7. Well said!
8. I agree with you now but back when I first saw it I would be hating.
9. Ash Is Still 10.
   Pokémon Is Just Boring...
10. Thank God I stopped watching Pokemon after the XYZ series. This community has turned into something embarrassing. Cant we just watch the stuff like back then. If you like it cool. If you dont like it cool. Life goes on. No need to fight over which series is better. I grew up with Pokemon since it aired here in the west and i think XYZ is the best of the series. If you dont agree then good for you.I I'm not going to force you to agree with me which is what this community seems to suffer from. All I care is that I like it, and it was an awesome three years of my life.
11. I don't care about the new art design, and the animation is a lot more fluid, but the battles are way worse. They've started using speed lines again :( the camera movements aren't as good and the detail in the characters / shading makes the fluid animation look less impressive.
12. That's stupid aren't the animators supposed to put watchers before self. let me remind everyone the more we watch and buy the products the more they get paid, and they were getting paid very handsomely. Also, for all of you that didn't know, Disney has bought Pokémon; and Disney as we all know has an holds the reputation of making all competitors, after they buy them, go to complete crap. DISNEY is telling the animators what to do. AND THATS THE COLD TRUTH!
13. Yeah, I do mostly agree with many things said in the video. However I am also one of the few that also prefer characters being on model than focusing on fluid animation. I don't know really. It is kind of like how HotDiggidyDemon describes it, a character's voice its that character. To me the same goes for design and the models underwent a very drastically notable change. And it may be just me, but Satoshi (Ash) just feels different to me. It is shallow I know and I know that they had to change it to suit the flow of motion, but it is just how I feel about it in general.
    
    I have to give it props though. They took a risk in venturing a new form of animation and I give my kudos to that. Perhaps I'll one day adapt to it eventually.
14. while i am more of a fan of the more crisp serious design work of XY i can understand how this change can be very beneficial and speaking as a more manga based person i think sun and moon fit more strongly with the kodomo manga type which is the manga category Pokemon has always been in from the start. ill admit i was guilty of alot of the claims made in this video but as i sat down to watch it the animation very much grew on me , for the most part i was worried there were gonna use this animation style as way of making more wacky faces and bad jokes and i was glad to see that wasn't the case. i hope in later seasons we can get back to the style xy presented with the fluidity and expressiveness sun and moon is bringing to the table.
15. I talked about sun and moons anime, the difference is I actually thought the animation looks great and definitely looks better than xyz
16. Love the new resigns. If only the formula of the stories could take as much risk.
17. Meh. South Park knows how to animate.
18. Still waiting for the promised pokemon episode :}
19. So, with anime production moving forward, is anime dying?
20. I've watched a couple of bits of the new series, and I see what you're talking about. Yes Ash looks weird, but the movement is more fluid and interesting. It's getting me interested in Pokemon again