Sensei's Hurricane Ike Update

Post by **sensei** » Wed Sep 17, 2008 12:57 pm

I've managed to get up a very "splashy" update that I've been working on in odd moments for a week. While it might not be the part that most people rush to browse, I'd like to call attention to the very wide-ranging additions to the Inuyasha sketch galleries. I learned a lot by getting two biggish and miscellaneous middens of sketches, and particularly about the huge range of approaches that the various teams who were subcontracted to do the actual animation.

Several of the sets included really some very primitive layout and genga sketches, notably this set showing Kōga in a tough battle. The douga is nice, but take a moment to look at how slapdash the planning drawings were, as if this team were working at white heat to make an imminent deadline.

Then look at the work by the group that I'm starting to call "the Ishihara-tachi," a team of extremely talented artists who worked at Kyoto Animation under Tatsuya Ishihara (later the creator of The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya.). I'm amazed by the vast difference between these sketches and those from other IY episodes, in detail, thoroughness, and beauty, even in the layouts and rough sketches. The contrast is far greater than anything I've seen even between two different series done by the same studio.

If you're interested in what goes on behind the scenes at animation studios, you will be instructed by the sketches from Episode 163 (Ishihara episode director, Shoko Ikeda animation director) as well as at those from Episode 128 (Tomoe Aratani, who did character design for Air under Ishihara, was episode director, and Ikeda again did animation directing).

An interesting middle ground comes from a set of sketches from Episode 155, showing the action-filled climax of Inuyasha's confrontation with Hosenki, the jewel demon. The sketches (mainly layouts and roughs, plus dougas) are hardly elegant but they are certainly well-worked out and (which I didn't know from the dealer's description) mostly oversized, some grandly so. (One layout, at 27.5 inches, is the longest, if not the biggest, piece of animation art that I now own.)

OK, OK, if you're not the academic sort of collector, there's still good stuff for you. CCS fans can look at the original rough sketches from the poignant end of the Power Transfer scene, or enjoy a a cute, blushing Syaoran from the Water Park adventure.

Or you can exercise your eyelids by looking at an incredible AMG movie cel of World of Elegance, Urd's angel, going into battle with only a shred of clothing.

And all you Rubberslutters can have some fun at the new redone Quirky Gallery Tour, which now has a "show me unclothed" theme in honor of my two new cels.

Thank you again Jason for getting RS back up and running, and everyone consider donating through RS to the Hurricane Ike recovery fund, which will need to be substantial to address the needs already publicized.

Belldandy16 · Post by **Belldandy16** » Wed Sep 17, 2008 1:11 pm

aw man i wanna see your stuff but i keep getting an error message saying somethings wrong with the DNS server?

is anyone else seeing this message when they try to visit RS?

Post by **sensei** » Wed Sep 17, 2008 1:31 pm

I've been checking the links (found two that went to the wrong pages so far) and they go through with no problems from here. Maybe it's an issue with a routing connection that your computer has to link through to in order to get to the server.

Apollo, Houston has a problem...

RoboFlonne · Post by **RoboFlonne** » Wed Sep 17, 2008 1:39 pm

http://sensei.rubberslug.com/gallery/in ... mID=253562

Lovely Cel!!

Super Duper Update!!!

I hope it works for you soon Bell!

lcatino · Post by **lcatino** » Wed Sep 17, 2008 1:55 pm

Yay! Love the new quirky gallery tour! ^^

And I also like your "Lina di Milo" t-shirt!

The InuYasha sketches are stunning!

I especially like this layout

http://sensei.rubberslug.com/gallery/in ... mID=253537

Very nice additions!

pixie_princess · Post by **pixie_princess** » Wed Sep 17, 2008 2:42 pm

Kouga. *drool*

I love all the new sketch art.
I think this is one of the most wonderful Li cel you have:
http://sensei.rubberslug.com/gallery/in ... emID=45442

sletia · Post by **sletia** » Wed Sep 17, 2008 2:47 pm

Belldandy16 wrote:aw man i wanna see your stuff but i keep getting an error message saying somethings wrong with the DNS server?

is anyone else seeing this message when they try to visit RS?

With me, the initial attempt to connect to an RS site will get an error but when I hit refresh it works.

iwakuralain16 · Post by **iwakuralain16** » Wed Sep 17, 2008 3:31 pm

sensei wrote: And all you Rubberslutters can have some fun at the new redone Quirky Gallery Tour, which now has a "show me unclothed" theme in honor of my two new cels.

The RS chat members do not like the misuse of our nickname!

LOL Not all of us like unclothed cels....

I lie. We do

LOL (official RS chat rep... I elected myself). LOL

Belldandy16 · Post by **Belldandy16** » Wed Sep 17, 2008 5:57 pm

oh okay i see it now!

dunno what the deal was but anyways...

GASP!!!
you have sketches from my all time favorite Inu episode!!!

I LOVED episode 128!

i think that (even though its so lighthearted in nature) its just one of the most beautifully animated episodes of the entire series!

oh and i adore that World of Elegance cel!

congrats Sensei!

sletia · Post by **sletia** » Wed Sep 17, 2008 6:15 pm

Belldandy, can I just say that the link to the quiz in your sig, while awesome, has the most aggravating and grueling process of getting your results? I gave up when it insisted I sign up for at least ONE offer. And that was after scouring the internet for a fake goddamn address to put in..

Belldandy16 · Post by **Belldandy16** » Wed Sep 17, 2008 6:24 pm

uhhh... oh dont kill the messenger! its from imageshack. i used their server to host the picture of idou to put up here and they put that link up (when i go to my "profile" thing, it doesnt have the link for me to erase it... so its coming from imageshack). i had no idea what it was and i never thought someone would click on it.... sorry!

moral of the story... go kill Klet, he made me do it...

lol

(i took it down, btw. i should have clicked on it to see what was there before leaving it up. sorry!)

lcatino · Post by **lcatino** » Wed Sep 17, 2008 6:31 pm

sletia wrote:
Belldandy, can I just say that the link to the quiz in your sig, while awesome, has the most aggravating and grueling process of getting your results? I gave up when it insisted I sign up for at least ONE offer. And that was after scouring the internet for a fake goddamn address to put in..

ROFL!

Yeah, I had the same problem. I finally just got too annoyed and closed the browser. ^^ It's funny how they can tell the address I entered didn't exist.

I just hope I didn't sign up for ring tones, or any of the other crap, lol.

No worries Amy. I didn't know imageshack did that either. I wonder if photobucket also throws those links in.

Mendo · Post by **Mendo** » Thu Sep 18, 2008 12:48 am

Amazing update! I'm really impressed by the amount of text and info you put with your cel descriptions, and links to cel-mates in other galleries.

Post by **sensei** » Thu Sep 18, 2008 6:28 am

Belldandy16 wrote:GASP!!!
you have sketches from my all time favorite Inu episode!!! I LOVED episode 128!
i think that (even though its so lighthearted in nature) its just one of the most beautifully animated episodes of the entire series!

Thank you BD16! It's not a famous moment (XYZ, a Japanese collector with a RS gallery, has some amazing sketches from the same ep.) but you'd see at once why the animation is so good in the rest of the episode if you held the stack of drawings in your hand. The Ishihara-tachi did intense, sweat-the-details work on these cuts. Each of the two cuts had twelve keys -- and twelve shuuseis! That's one image drawn by a senior animator, and corrected by a major artist, for every in-betweener, an astonishing rate when usually a looping cut like this might have only four keys, or three, or even two (up/down/up/down) and lots and lots of inbetweeners.

The work on Ep. 163 (the Secret Flower Garden) is just as intense. I should put up a quirky tour just of Inuyasha layouts so you can see the variation among them from cave-wall painting to slap-dash to cartoonish to (with the Ishihara-tachi episodes) superbly elegant.

Mendo wrote:
I'm really impressed by the amount of text and info you put with your cel descriptions, and links to cel-mates in other galleries.

Yeah, that's my academic side showing. Plus it gives me something to do while I'm waiting for lots I've won to come stateside (or, in this case, waiting for RS to come back online).

Thanks, all, for visiting and especially for looking at the sketchwork (though I too can't help peeking in my celbook at WoE a couple times a day myself).

Krafty · Post by **Krafty** » Thu Sep 18, 2008 7:06 am

Another comprehensive update, Sensei. The new QuickTour section looks great and help define the originality of your RS site. Oh, and I didn't visit that section based on the promise of naked bodies- HONESTLY!

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