How Anime is Made - Inside the Studio (Toei, Madhouse, Pierrot)

[00:00] Have you ever wondered how anime is made well today?

[00:02] We're going to take a behind-the-scenes look at some of your favorite animation studios and see how this whole [process] is done, from scratch

[00:20] It all starts off with a script the script is produced by the artist who developed the original [Manga] himself and after a lengthy review

[00:28] Process by the director it gets greenlit and goes into production next we have a storyboard these storyboards include drawing

[00:35] movements panning of the camera, and the length of each shot next we have layouts for the actual scenery [and]

[00:42] Landscapes that take place first they're drawn on paper

[00:45] And it is reviewed should we have a tree here should we have a building here?

[00:49] And then actually once it is finalized goes to a landscape department where they used to hand paint them

[00:56] They don't do it so much anymore

[00:58] Now it has turned into a lot of digital landscapes, but think old-school dragonball z

[01:03] That's all hand painted landscapes and backgrounds, and thank new age one-punch man. It is all digital

[01:09] backgrounds now however sometimes they still do paint in

[01:13] Regular acrylics, but typically don't they'll only do that in a scenario where it's faster or better for some particular [reason]

[01:20] But primarily now. It's all digitized because you have all your tools right at hand. It's faster cleaner and cheaper

[01:26] Next we have key animation now what key animators do is they draw the first frame the middle frame and the last frame

[01:32] Typically of an animation so basically if one guy of guy a was going to kick guy B

[01:38] He'd have him standing there. He'd have middle the kick and then he have the kick impacting the guy

[01:44] After the key animation is done for every frame. It'll go over to the [in-between] animators here's something you might find interesting

[01:52] When the key animators are drawing they have to use references so that they get everything correct now

[01:57] Here's an example of a key animator using a mirror so that he can look at his hand in order to draw the hand

[02:04] Proportionally and correctly after the key animators are done it goes over to the in-between animators who make sure that that

[02:10] animation is a solid fluid movement by tracking the three pictures that they were given or more and

[02:17] basically drawing the frames in between

[02:20] Those in order to give it that motion key animators usually are more amateur. They're less expensive a lot of times

[02:27] They're brought in from Korea over in Japan and that

[02:29] Is part of the reason that Dragon Ball Super episode 5?

[02:33] Didn't look great in a lot of those scenes is because it was done by less

[02:37] Experienced animators who were brought in to do the heavy [lifting] on those [in-between]?

[02:42] Fluid movement animations now what you have to understand is that in animation?

[02:46] just a TV series a 30-minute episode can have as many as

[02:51] 1,500 Redrawn pictures in that single episode

[02:55] After all the animations are complete it goes over to compositing now compositing is a slew of different departments

[03:02] But primarily it is

[03:03] the coloring studio the shading and this is where they put in and

[03:07] Fill all [of] the lines of the animations that have been created [with] the correct colors now a lot of these companies have entire

[03:15] Departments just for the coloring because it is so time-consuming

[03:19] Each of these artists will be given a correct palette of colors to use to ensure [that] all characters

[03:25] Keep and [Maintain] their level and quality of colors throughout the entire animation now

[03:30] sometimes

[03:30] they'll be in a cave or [in] a building where there's not as much light and they'll be given a different color palette for the

[03:36] Darker Shades

[03:37] And that's why sometimes you'll see characters having different shades of color

[03:41] Whether it's their clothes or their skin the final stage of production is effects the effects department will take the fully drawn animation fully colored

[03:49] With landscapes and everything, but basically the rest of the departments are done at this point

[03:52] And now we'll start adding effects whether it's lightening glows or as shading blurs

[03:58] They'll add various effects to ensure that that animation looks amazing glints on swords more things than you probably even know

[04:06] A lot of blurs for certain scenes so that it gives it more of a speed motion there are so many things that the effects

[04:13] Department does in the end that really add [to] the stellar quality of an animation and add those effects that make you love those key

[04:21] moments in that anime

[04:23] Finally we go to post production

[04:25] which is editing so that the

[04:27] anime the 30 minute cartoon is exactly the amount of broadcast time meaning they may have to cut some pieces out and we do the

[04:35] Voiceovers the voiceovers are probably one of the more on stages in this entire process

[04:40] You guys probably knew that the voice of Goku is voiced by a woman

[04:45] walking [Sudhana], or underneath it feels old ah

[04:53] But did you know that the voice of naruto was - oh see what after dinner?

[04:58] You go get a shell company to understand [company]. Chaos there you [still] gotta I'm the coo you know they're not pan out

[05:05] I'm jake Master master our media. Thanks for joining us today

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