Nicely written, insightful article. I hadn’t heard about this subreddit until today. For sure checking it out.

I’m pretty sure guts killed him immediately in the next battle they were in.

I should also clarify, most people misuse the term “animation”. The principals of good animation were invented by Disney animators in the 80s. These principals still hold true today, and are followed by the best animators worldwide. The only things that have changed are the tools used to animate.

Anime typically has…

But not all 3D is cutting edge. There’s a huge difference between the animation in Berserk and the animation in BBKBRNK. The latter was much better.

Edit: Also, 2d animation is still being innovated on. Programs like harmony have the ability to keyframe and tween 2d art, allowing for partially computer animated 2d.

Mob and Orange are fantastic. I would recommend checking out Re:Zero. Where as Berserk, not so fantastic IMO. There is a tonal shift that makes it feel more like an edgy shonen, than the dark fantasy manga that spawned it. Also there’s a huge disparity of quality between the 2d and 3d scenes. The 3d scenes noticeably…

That’s Ulrik’s new design, Grampa pimp-man.

WHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAT?! I saw a pic of her in that .gif in the article and got chills imagining that, good shit man. Been debating about getting XCOM2, loved the first and EW. But I don’t have a particularly powerful computer, and I hear there’s a lot of technical issues with the game freezing.

“But it refused.”
But it re-fused. Your heart literally breaks and fuses together again. I missed it too, had to look over it several times.

No, but it helps fluidity, which is the polar opposite of clunkiness. They also have a good grasp of weight, so I’d actually concur with the others - even since the neo-geo days most KoF games were animated well. Even if their graphics were poorly done. 12 and 13 fixed that graphics issue.