So basically you're saying I need a raise, since I'm 28 and definitely making nowhere near 150k a year. I couldn't agree with his more! Now, if only my boss felt the same.

Indeed, it's a great story both ways, and so long as it does well for Hiromu Arakawa, then it's all good!

Fair enough, the anime synced up very well to how things played out in my head, but I could see how it could be different for someone else. It may be the fact that I'm a professional animator that resulted in my mental pacing being quite similar to the anime's *shrug* You are the first person I've heard who has…

Odd, I've read the manga as well as watched both season of the show....and it's a pretty straight adaptation. They changed the sequence of a few things and there are a couple changes in location for some conversations, but I haven't noticed any real difference in tonality or pacing. What feels different about it to…

Anything you want.

Footage was made up of clips from that and Wolf Children....which is generally a happy show which makes it's use like this hilarious to me.

The problem usually isn't the render engine there, it's the specific textures used. Creating imperfections takes time and manpower since it means that damn near everything needs a custom map made for it rather than the much easier and quicker procedural type maps. This is especially true since this deals with…

I think he got the shaft with this ruling

Ukko Vettenrata is what I got. Ukko is evidently the god of weather and thunder and Vettenrata means water coast (the beach I guess?).

I feel like shoehorning it in to the engine bay of one of these things would simultaneously be a wonderful and horrible idea. Wonderful in the ridiculous amounts of fun it would be, horrible for your life expectancy.

With the proper application of plasma cutters and duct tape, anything can be made to work! Now, hold my beer and watch this....

I'm pretty sure the line is long enough that we'd have to take numbers.

No I haven't. Very cool, thanks for the link!

Sounds about right to me time wise.

I'm assuming a lot of the bits were imported from programs like SolidWorks or Inventor, which saves a TON of time, but at the cost of higher poly counts and poor poly flow. But yeah, if they were all created from scratch there is easily a couple months worth of work there assuming they had more than one person doing…

I'm aware, it's not the accents I was referring to anyway, more the wooden stilted delivery. It's actually a very common problem for anyone delivering lines into a microphone especially when they don't have experience doing so. Basically the idea is to read your lines without sounding like you're reading them, and…

Off the top of my head, no. Unfortunately I don't deal with pricing, and I work for an in house group that does animation for a company that produces oil rig equipment, so most of our animations are added in to the rig package any way. That said, unless they have an in house team I can tell you that it was NOT cheap.

As an animator, this made my day. Very high quality piece, and those transitions were beautiful! The voice over is hilariously bad though, but that's forgivable since these guys get paid to drive fast, not woo the public with their amazing oratory skills. But yeah, as an animator that focuses on industrial…

This actually makes me really disappointed. It's one of my favorite shows and manga so it makes me a touch sad to see that they just glossed over or omitted all the stuff that makes the show so great in the first place. It's like the people who made it just read a synopsis for the show and went, "obviously the reason…

I've always thought the Spyker ones were very pretty.