#Studio trigger

[scrubf1re]

Little Witch Academia Trio

The main trio from Little Witch Academia with Lotte Jansson (on the left), Sucy Manbavaran (on the right) and Atsuko Kagari (also known as Akko who is in the middle). Partially made via tracing over official artwork of the girls though I tried to be transformative with it like always.

[drilanime]

[edgar-allan-possum]

Transformers One poster from Studio Trigger

Drawn by Masaru Sakamoto

[chiffonfluff]

love when studio trigger does The Thing

[swampjawn]

Time to talk an unnecessary amount about floors!

Episode 6 of Dungeon Meshi was produced in collaboration with a smaller studio, Enishiya - and it went way harder than I expected, for being made up of two relatively simple and self contained stories focusing on one character each.

And you can really see how those extra resources meant the animators could give full focus to both halves of the episode. Let's take a look at one piece that stole the show.

The first half was handled primarily by episode director/storyboard artist Keita Nagahara and co-animation director Hirotoshi (or Hiroaki? [1]) Arai. It's actually kinda insane how much of this section can be attributed to these two.

But the real star of the show is the second half, Chilchuck vs the mimic, led by co-animation director Toya Ooshima in his first animation director role for TV anime!

And the biggest aspect that knocked my dang boots off was something that's very consistent with Ooshima's style: background animation!

By animating the backgrounds rather than using painted still images, Ooshima and the team of other similarly skilled animators are able to create these beautiful dynamic camera movements that wouldn't be possible otherwise. Like these cuts by Takeshi Maenami where the camera becomes an expressive part of the scene, zipping forward and backward, and tilting to emphasize the speed of this murderous hermit crab. (Maenami's style is also very recognizable here - snappy timing and quick camera movements)

Or this cut by the incredible Kaito Tomioka which cleverly combines a traditional background for the walls with a fully animated floor. The level of detail in these tiles is just completely insane, and used to great effect with this wide, diagonal angle, and the way the camera tentatively drifts forward before reversing direction, and the tiles blur out as it speeds up.

I don't think I'm the only one caught off guard by how much they full-assed this little side story, but it was a pleasant surprise!

I broke down the entire episode in this video here. A lot of research went into this one, and I think it's the best one of these videos I've made so far, so if you're at all interested in more of this type of analysis in video form, I would really appreciate it if you checked it out, or re-blogged this post! Thanks

[1] It's listed as Hirotoshi on Anime News Network, but Hiroaki on a key frame that Studio Trigger shared on Twitter, so I'm not sure which one is wrong.

[wishingsparkjar]

For the Transformers 40th anniversary, have a collab with studio TRIGGER and Bump of Chicken

[orions-hound]

Transformers: Prime | Studio Trigger - Transformers 40th Anniversary

[wayward-delver]

Trigger gave Velociraptor Falin Feathers.

[brokenmimir]

Studio Trigger going off

[kamerobogal]

Don't think anyone has caught this yet but Kremzeek is in Starscream in the studio Trigger Transformers 40th Anniversary Special

[cryoverkiltmilk]

STUDIO TRIGGER HAS UPHELD THEIR OBLIGATION.

[dunmeshistash]

Oh lord of Dungeon Meshi knowledge! Do you know where to find the TV Animation "Delicious in Dungeon" Memorial Illustration Book done by Trigger that doesn't cost $100?

I don't 😔

Idk much about where to buy imported stuff

[amethystsoda]

[wott11]

Trigger definately has a favourite

[randomationality]

(guys if the screenshots look cut off is coz im crappy at taking screenshots)

just saw the Studio Trigger Transformers 40th Anniversary tribute movie and I WAS SCREAMING GIGGLING AND JUMPING AROUND THE WHOLE TIME AND THIS WAS ONE OF THE REASONS WHY

RAHHHHHHH THE ARMADA AND PRIME KIDS WITH THE PRIME BOTS AND ARMADA MINIBOTS/CONS IM SORRY IM UNCULTURED

HOLI!!!!!!!!!!!! I MISSED YOU!!!!!!!!

HOLY SHIZZLEDAZZLE

oh my cripplingcrappitycrap DEATHSAURUS I MISSED YOU TOO

oh my gigglywiggly three of my favourite megatrons in one place

THE BOYS (i only know blitzwing swindle tankor and i forgot the triceratops name but ik he's the silly one😭)

i love families bro

energon funny

Thundercracker yuey SKY!!!!!!!!!!!

^^^ARMADA S.S. RIGHT THERE PLUS WASPY MY BOY^^^

also the jumpscare of everyone dying

MAN

also unicron jumpscare

THIS IS PT 1 I GUESS SO UHHHH WHEN THIS GETS A REBLOG THATS WHEN IVE GOT MORE WATCHUMACALLITS