tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22906998.post7261167450095827018..comments2024-03-26T22:42:06.412-07:00Comments on TAG Blog: Quake DamageSteve Huletthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05537689111433326847noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22906998.post-78918504367185701192011-03-24T12:15:34.885-07:002011-03-24T12:15:34.885-07:00@ Pencil Jock
Finding an animation disc in Japan ...@ Pencil Jock<br /><br />Finding an animation disc in Japan is just about impossible. It seems that they just don't use them here <br /><br />Many times I have seen people working on a simple light board at a neck breaking 15 degree angle or less.Ki Innishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03599502687774991361noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22906998.post-30308405163220922282011-03-23T21:59:52.774-07:002011-03-23T21:59:52.774-07:00Film Roman occupied a multi-story building on Chan...Film Roman occupied a multi-story building on Chandler Blvd. in North Hollywood that suffered major damage in the Northridge quake.<br /><br />TAG didn't rep the employees at the studio at the time, so my recollections are a bit sketchy, but I think people were moved out when damage proved to be extensive, then brought back when repairs were completed.<br /><br />After TAG signed a contract with FR, the company moved to its present location near the Burbank airport on Hollywood Way. The crew for "King of the Hill" later returned to the old site due to over-crowding at the Hollywood Way location.<br /><br />I was never enamored of the older building. The ceilings were low and the place was run-down. but they produced a lot of prime time television cartoons there, nevertheless.Steve Huletthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05537689111433326847noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22906998.post-13893201330521353062011-03-23T16:36:39.093-07:002011-03-23T16:36:39.093-07:00someone once told me that Film Roman was temporari...someone once told me that Film Roman was temporarily "Red Tagged" after the Northridge quake.<br /><br />...and that a small number of Simpson staffers were able to sneak in (along the lines of you talk to the cop while we sneak in the window) to get their work out of the building so they could work from home since the deadlines didn't change.<br /><br />Any truth to that?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22906998.post-87915128106667277662011-03-23T12:00:30.657-07:002011-03-23T12:00:30.657-07:00Ki Innis -
Thanks for the link to your blog post ...Ki Innis -<br /><br />Thanks for the link to your <a href="http://kicreativestudio.blogspot.com/2009/11/anime-anyone.html" rel="nofollow">blog post</a> with some very illuminating (and sobering) thoughts on the state of the animation industry in Japan .<br /><br /><a href="http://kicreativestudio.blogspot.com/2009/11/anime-anyone.html" rel="nofollow">http://kicreativestudio.blogspot.com/2009/11/anime-anyone.html</a><br /><br />Outsourcing and ever-lowering wages (especially for freelance artists working by-the-foot or by-the-drawing , or storyboard artists who must now do elaborate key-posed animatics) are killing traditional animators in the U.S. too , but it seems much worse in Japan. This is a sad thing because it makes one wonder where does the next Satoshi Kon or Hayao Miyazaki come from if animation is not an attractive profession for young people to enter. <br /><br />On the other hand the WSJ video interview with the young female animator, Kayoko Ezoe, reminds me very much of many animation students I speak with in the U.S. who dearly love hand-drawn animation and they would rather do it than something else, even with the scarcity of jobs and the low pay. Kayoko Ezoe obviously has a passion for her work and any animator in any culture could relate to her speaking of how the delight in seeing her drawings come alive on the screen is what keeps her going . <br /><br />It's a wonderful madness , this thing about bringing drawings to life. <br /><br />(but it comes with great sacrifice; the Japanese animation industry wages are shameful . They are taking advantage of these young people's love for animation).<br /><br />Question: almost all the shots in the WSJ video show the artists working on flat light boards with the drawings held together with something like "bulldog clips", instead of the typically angled drawing tables with animation discs and peg bars that we use in the U.S., Canada, and Europe. Is this common practice in Japan , to work on a flat light board with or without a peg bar ?Pencil Jocknoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22906998.post-5417869040519648802011-03-23T08:04:19.814-07:002011-03-23T08:04:19.814-07:00Living and working in Tokyo, I can say first hand ...Living and working in Tokyo, I can say first hand that several productions have been either cancelled or postponed because of the recent disasters.<br /><br />Anime in Japan (one of the few places in the world where hand-drawn animation is still king) ---- has been in a slump for awhile now.<br /><br />The Wall Street Journal did an interesting story on the slump in the Japanese animation industry some time ago:<br /><br />http://www.marketwatch.com/video/asset/tough-times-for-anime-animators/B0731C1D-8B17-45A7-B1DE-8E25C1F71EA1<br /><br />or see the same video clip on my blog about it.<br /><br />http://kicreativestudio.blogspot.com/2009/11/anime-anyone.htmlKi Innishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03599502687774991361noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22906998.post-60920821183441619452011-03-23T01:35:15.177-07:002011-03-23T01:35:15.177-07:00Thanks for the inspirational message.
I'm not ...Thanks for the inspirational message.<br />I'm not sure what to do with it besides have one more thing to worry about.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com