#i like how they wiggle. combined with the poses some of them look like theyre dancing

[elfcollector]

i was curious about how the game rendered the approaching army during the attack on haven, since they're so far away you never get a particularly good look at them. turns out they're (extremely wiggly!) flat pngs with little fires attached to simulate torches. i was honestly impressed by the level of detail in the shapes, since there's no way you'd see anything as small as their helmets or swords during normal gameplay

[tumblunni]

Directator's episode made my heart glow! What a goddamn bundle of fun! I wanna watch it again immediately it was FUCKIN HILARIOUS

And i find it so weird that this was clearly a low budget filler episode?? Like seriously he is SO badly animated its just insane. And spends half of his time as a friggin floating jpeg of his official art. Yet this episode also managed to be better than the entire rest of the season combined

IM LOVE HIM, WHAT A DORK

It was just so fun seeing what sort of ridiculous shocking swerve his 'masterpiece' would take next! And the dub even added a meta joke about jj abrams movies, lol

I was fuckin choking on my own spit at the montage of whisper fallibg to the ground Dramatically, like seriously why the fuck was that the one that really got me

Oh and HIS SILLY POSES seriously this man somehow makes bad animation WORK, holy shit. Its like his sheer Passion For Artistry cannot be contained by puny human concepts like accurate anatomy and like..actual rules of cinematography. 'I'm so excited about films that i started looking awful in close up shots' is the kind of meta joke youd think was on purpose!

Also i really REALLY fuckin love the assistant director trio!!! They barely really do anything but theyre just so happy about it!! Its so cute how theyre so in sync with their boss? Like they always have everything prepared before he asks for it and theyre always super enthusiastic about his ideas and they even adorably repeat the last thing with MAXIMUM ENTHUSIASM!! "Okay lets take it again from the top" *assistant bounces in*"FRrrrrOM THE TOP~!" *all of them bustle in and shove everyone into new costumes* Man i wish i had a team of super enthusiastic friends who go 100% power to help you with things. Before i actually saw the episode i was worried it was gonna be the more boribg cliche of a bad boss who's always a jerk go his sidekicks but nah its just a bunch of big ol dorks together in a giant team hug going 'OMG THIS IS GONNA BE THE GREATEST'

Okay i had the cutest mental image lol. Part of the Bad Animation is having Directator constantly float about on his chair completely unmoving like they just wiggled a jpeg around. And i was thinking DAWW WHAT IF THEY DID THAT EVEN WHEN HE WAS ALIVE? Like human!Assistant Trio pushing human!Directator around on a swivel chair to Accentuate His Points. Also they probably carry confetti in their pockets 24/7 just so they can go BOOM and remind him how great he is and how much they all appreciate him. Seriously theyre such a small role but theres so much adorable personality in those tiny scenes!! Theyre just super supportive buddies!!! BOSS IT IS TIME FOR YOUR HOURLY SONG ABOUT YOUR GREATNESS lol it feels like maybe he's such a doofus cos they kinda spoil him? This is why i got this headcanon of him being depressed as a human and dying in some super tragic way, itd add a lot of nuance if his friends were trying so hard to bolster his ego cos he used to be really down on himself. And also itd be happy that he's finally finding success as a yokai!

Oh but it was funny how the dub tried to remove all the references to journey to the west despite not removing any references to journey of the west. Like yo you cant just say its something else when its clearly righr there onscreen! Its a shame cos the whole thing is infinately funnier with the context of it being a nonsense adaptation of a real fairytale. SERIOUSLY HE TURNED SON GOKU'S HEADBAND INTO CATERPILLARS directator i love and cherish you