Need help from Japanese Readers!!

SqueakyGate · Post by **SqueakyGate** » Sat Dec 30, 2006 3:08 pm

For those of you that can read Japanese- please help me identify which numbers in the sequence these three Rakushuns are. “A”- something.

http://face2face.rubberslug.com/gallery ... 555&Page=3

All the others in the sequence have Western Numerals but the above three don’t.

Though I could be wrong, I believe this one is A8:

http://face2face.rubberslug.com/gallery ... mID=165748

Thanks for any help and Happy New Year!!
SqueakyGate

kittens · Post by **kittens** » Sat Dec 30, 2006 4:38 pm

The first one says A "a" and 2nd one says A 'e" and the third one says A 'u".

kittens · Post by **kittens** » Sat Dec 30, 2006 4:39 pm

The last one I cannot read.... Do you have a better scan?

redwolf · Post by **redwolf** » Sat Dec 30, 2006 8:15 pm

Actually, the last one looks like A7. The A8 END that you have in the sketch slot would have been combined with the A7. The fur and face would change, and everything else would stay the same.

The sketch you wrote down as A7 actually looks like A "i" (i kind of like the i in "ski"). Also, the A6 flows much better to the real A7.

The order of the strange numbered ones would be
A "a"
A "i"
A "u"
A "e"
They are the first four characters in the Japanese katakana alphabet.

That's pretty interesting as I've never come across sequence sketches marked in this manner before! I wonder what the reasoning behind it is...

Post by **sensei** » Sat Dec 30, 2006 10:50 pm

Snakeskii and I collaborated on an auction for a lengthy sketch set from Magic Knight Rayearth that has some sketches that are labeled in an identical way. You can visit one (and explore around to see others in the same gallery) if you Click here.

These sketches, as I understand them, are for poses that would normally be "in-betweeners" to provide continuity between the keys (which are labeled with numbers as you note: A1, A2, etc.) The labels of these "planned inbetweeners" (as I called them) are instead given romanji letters and katakana letters like "Aァ" or "A-a" and they're put inside triangles rather than circles. When these sketches are cleaned up into dougas, they are given regular sequence numbers, but these too are put inside triangles rather than circles to show that they represent an inbetweener that was planned by the key animator rather than entirely the douga artist's creation.

An interesting question: thanks for asking.

SqueakyGate · Post by **SqueakyGate** » Tue Jan 02, 2007 11:20 pm

Thanks so much to everyone for the translation and the “in-betweeners” education. It makes total sense to me now. As soon as I can, I’ll rewatch that scene slowly to get my sequencing right. You’ve all given me a very good head start.

Thanks again for your help and Knowledge!