If some random kids with internet connection could learn to animate, made a studio and an indie anime, why can't /ic/ make one?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pcww1fsYSPc

>>7588896 (OP)
Because projects like that are formed from shared goals and vetting people, while /ic/ is a mishmash mosaic of people from different cultures, schools of art-thought, style, opinion, desires, values and goals.

is this a western studio?? holy

>>7588915
Created by a Belgian (Blou) and Italian (FAR), the members are international animators from various countries.

>>7588896 (OP)
>westoids calling their art anime
and just like that I will not watch your show.
also buy an ad.

>>7588946
I like how they copy anime style. I wonder how soon they are gonna push for faggot ideas and ruin anime style in general.

>>7588974
This. Why are there so many manga/anime/lolishota/weebs generals here?

>>7588896 (OP)
why does it look like AI though

>>7588980
They're inheriting the Kanada style animation
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eUnf_JqPH5k
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fv7qCcm1qTA
It's the same animation style that Imaishi follows
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D4oqJbafDn8

>>7588896 (OP)
Looks cool. Good ad, worked on me.

>>7588974
>call western style ugly and say eastern style looks better
>westerners do eastern style
>hate it because it's not from muh glorious nippon
kys

>>7588988
> Kanada style
flashy with poor fundamentals?

>>7588990
I swear most people like them on /ic/ are just mad that they're not born Japanese. So they really get mad when some non Japanese people made it in the anime industry.

>>7588995
As opposed to Disney's cartoonish and over realism? Japanese can do that too.
https://www.sakugabooru.com/post?tags=little_nemo_pilot+

>>7588996
dont get mad at bait ignore it

>>7588998
This looks like something studio Bakshi would make in the 70s - heavily rotoscoped and inconsistent.

>>7589002
Back to the topic, I think it'd be interesting to make a short fan animation with some /ic/ artists here. Animation general is quite active, we probably need some people who can design characters, props, make storyboards, do coloring+compositing and directing.

>>7589005
you cant be this naive

>>7589004
People accuse Okiura of the same thing too.

>>7589005
this board is 18+
also go to the animation thread

>>7589006
Naive as in overestimating /ic/'s ability?
>>7589009
I'm just kind of tired of you guys bitching about AI 24/7 but then do nothing about it
Also creating a fan animation can be as simple as remaking something from original as a tribute, like what /a/ did with anime OP recreations or /a/ musicals

7589015
>you guys bitching about AI 24/7
that's bait retard. half the board is nodraw bait. hell you're probably baiting too. honestly effective and new strategy desu

>>7588987
because you suffer from severe transsexualism

Animation is great. But I'm more interested in making comics.

>>7588896 (OP)
>English studio
>token brown girl
Of fucking course...

>>7588896 (OP)
I'm trying to. Stop pressuring me. Jfc.

Also they have the money from their patreon to outsource in-betweeners and voice actors.

Whatever this trailer is doesn't have any substance. I've seen some if their previous work. It's just autistic humor clinging onto ideas that aren't their own.

>>7588896 (OP)
Because if
>we
did, we would eventually want to separate ourselves from this board and go our own way.

>>7588988
Their style looks more like 2000s anime than 1980s.

>>7588896 (OP)
>Westard "Anime"
>Lolishit
MEH.

>>7588896 (OP)
>random kids
anon otaku-vs is probably older than you

>>7588896 (OP)
I love lolis

>>7588896 (OP)
Look fine and all but I think it'd be better if they made "their own style." Like, Japs do the things that way because that's what their studio system and the fan base they are stuck with allow for, you are an independent outside of that system, the Japs would kill to be in your position and allow themselves to experiment and break the molds.

>>7588896 (OP)
Have you ever tried being a part of an amateur "indie" studio or project? They almost always end up being mostly really shit beginners, a couple of ints that creates "assets" to stroke their ego and the group "manager/management group" that can't even get together a basic schedule, goals or deadlines. In other words, these "organizations" are more like gatherings of people who think they know what it takes to create a project or group but aren't actually invested in the trying part. The moment you try and crack down they get pissy and leave or try to kick you out. Any person who is actually serious about an indie project would have left upon seeing the disorganized ego stroking project.

Very rarely do you actually get a random group to create a functional indie studio, even then, they have at least some idea of what is expected in industry workflows. These random indie groups are almost always animators, modelers, visdev, composers, etc with industry experience that know what it's like to work at a professional capacity.

>>7588896 (OP)
Because the people who can actually make things know better than to attach themselves to a bunch of beglet pedophiles

>>7588896 (OP)
I thought westoids hated loli?

>>7588896 (OP)
>I can't believe that westoids can nail anime art like this, I guess muh asian jeans are BS after all.
Jokes aside, Tonari animation's made of /ic/ artists, its CEO talked about it in an interview, they went on to help Japanese anime studios before they bankrupt...

>>7607390
Wow it's true

>I started off as a YouTuber, and my YouTube channel’s focus was teaching people about how to make anime. Even though I hadn’t been in the industry yet, I studied it on my own through friends I met online and through what I gathered on the Internet. There really wasn’t a resource for English-speaking animators at the time to learn how to get into the anime industry, so my goal for the channel was to get me into the industry by teaching people about it. I had to be very careful that I was teaching it properly, so it gave me a lot of motivation to really know what I was talking about. I’ve since pulled a lot of those videos down. Now that I’ve been in the industry for five years, I found that the information was okay, but I know I can do better, so now I’m rebuilding all that stuff.

>Striving for Animation was the online group where I met my mentors that taught me about how to make anime. It started off as a Skype group that would meet daily and draw together and study art. That group was founded and advertised entirely on 4chan. On 4chan, there’s an art thread called /ic/, which is Artwork and Critique. This guy named Chi was advertising it when I was first in college and really getting into animation. I was posting my artwork on /ic/ because I just didn’t have any good artists around me to critique my work. I got a lot of good feedback, and that’s where I found Striving for Animation. A few people from that group actually got into the anime industry through the traditional route—learn Japanese, get an art degree, go to Japan, go to senmon gakko [vocational college], start at a studio as a doga-man [in-between animator], and then work your way up to key animation. He followed that route, was successful, and taught me and other people in the group.

>>7609887
>After that, I pushed for the group to grow because there are way more people that need this information, so I advocated for the group to go to Discord. After the Discord server got too big, we realized that we needed videos because we were teaching the same thing over and over every time a new person comes in, so we made this YouTube channel to catalog what were teaching. It ended up blowing up, and that’s when I started Sakuga Foundry, which was an online forum for artists who wanted to get into animation. They would have a place where we could store resources and have professionals talking to people that are interested.

>This huge community spawned a client base, naturally, and we started getting clients coming into the Discord server. I had a bunch of artists in my circle that were interested in getting into anime, so I wanted to make a studio and put the opportunity in my own hands, instead of hoping a studio will hire me someday, and then also help provide opportunities for other artists. I think I’ve gotten a lot of criticism by some members of that community that have since left. They think that artists shouldn’t be trying to make a business, that artists should work for a company and not be too capitalistic. But I think if there isn’t anyone doing what I’m doing, then there are going to be a lot of artists that are going to miss out on opportunities to get into the anime industry. I know now how hard it is for Japanese studios to hire foreigners, so having an anime company that specializes in hiring foreigners I think is a boon to the industry, not a negative.

At some point you can recognize when you have a community with enough talented individuals to begin working toward something greater. This was a very organic organization of people. Much more likely to have some success than recruiting randoms for a collective project. Very impressive.

>>7607390
It's crazy I've never heard about this dude or their resources. Maybe it's been linked a lot and I've never noticed, but their youtube channel is very handy.

https://www.youtube.com/@SakugaFoundry/videos

>>7607390
>>7609887
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>>7609889
Tonari animation's founder Jared Martin, the guy you people are talking about is a scammer and allegedly pushes for AI application in art. Artists who are associated with Japanese industry are well aware of this.
>https://www.reddit.com/r/anime/comments/1i3mn9d/tonari_animation_is_officially_ceasing_operations/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=mweb3x&utm_name=mweb3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button

>>7611073
pfffttt what a twist. Well, at least their youtube channel seems to have severed all ties with Tonari and is its own thing now.