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‘A little boy lost’ by W. H. Hudson; illustrated by Dorothy P. Lathrop. Published 1920 by Alfred A. Kopf, New York.
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This is what the show always needed… MOR LAZERZ!!!
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‘Dream blocks’ by Aileen Cleveland Higgins, illustrated by Jessie Willcox Smith. Published 1908 by Duffield& Company, New York.
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Dress used in ‘Masquerade’ by Christine Daaé (Emmy Rossum) in the 2004 “The Phantom of the Opera” film
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Waitomo Glowworm Caves are a famous tourist attraction because of the large population of fireflies that...
‘A little boy lost’ by W. H. Hudson; illustrated by Dorothy P. Lathrop. Published 1920 by Alfred A. Kopf, New York.
See the complete book here.
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This is what the show always needed… MOR LAZERZ!!!
Prince Gumball’s path to the throne was brutal. Fionna wasn’t around during the Sugar Wars; Gumball distracts her by acting super bland and wearing disco pants.
Marshall Lee knows the truth, but as Chaotic Neutral, he just can’t bring himself to give a shit.
ETA: Nhyworks just gave me the amazing pun ‘Game of Scones.’ Brb dying ok.
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So… I was curious about how many backgrounds a background artist needs to make in 1 day in anime/jp so that he or she can stay alive…
Here’s some numbers: Source on Crunchyroll
According to an investigation by Media Development Research Institute Inc., a 30 minute episode of a TV anime in 2010 that totaled 11,000,000 yen (about US $145,214 at the current exchange rate) consisted of the following expenses:
(Note: All US dollar conversions are approximate based on current exchange rate.)
Original work - 50,000 yen ($660)
Script - 200,000 yen ($2,640)
Episode Direction - 500,000 yen ($6,600)
Production - 2 million yen ($26,402)
Key Animation Supervision - 250,000 yen ($3,300)
Key Animation - 1.5 million yen ($19,801)
In-betweening - 1.1 million yen ($14,521)
Finishing - 1.2 million yen ($15,841)
Art (backgrounds) - 1.2 million yen ($15,841)
Photography - 700,000 yen ($9,240)
Sound - 1.2 million yen ($15,841)
Materials - 400,000 yen ($5,280)
Editing - 200,000 yen ($2,640)
Printing - 500,000 yen ($6,600)
If you suppose an average episode has 5,000 frames, the price per frame for an in-betweener is 220 yen or just under three bucks, which apparently is a rate that hasn’t really changed much in the past 30 years. Japan Animation Creators Association rep, Osamu Yamasaki, commented [roughly translated], “30 years ago it was said that one person would draw 1,000 frames per month, but now if you can do 500, that’s considered good.” Under these circumstances, it’s no wonder young animators are having trouble making it in the industry.
Source: http://www.janscottfrazier.com/images/animinjp/job2.htm
On average, an anime has roughly 200 backgrounds, 200 scenes per 20 minute show, with major backgrounds that take a long time, and minor backgrounds that’s cropped out of major backgrounds and reused.
If I go by that number, it’s about 80 yen a background, this is for all average backgrounds.
If I go by 100 major backgrounds out of 200. (just a rough guess…) then I am looking at 158 yen a background. About 1.5 usd? that’s still too low. weird number. >.<b Then an artist needs to do almost 30 backgrounds just like the animation per day.
If you get one important background done maybe you can crop another 10 shots out of it.
So you need to finish 3 major backgrounds in 1 day, make another 27 shots of minor backgrounds for the production to survive.
An average CGI matte painter in US finish 1-2 finished concept art per day.
OK, that’s insane.
Source: Kotaku
I like reality mangas about animes. I love animator’s rants, but I am glad I am freelancing anime. I don’t ever want to work like a slave, it’s not healthy.
Anime Sensei to student advice on Cartoonbrew : this advice sums up in one word, “Don’t come for a dream, you will suffer. Stay out unless you know you can do it.” - sometimes harsh advices are kind advices.
About the wealth distribution: There’s just a lot more people in drawing section than sound, and sound people can move around more because their skill can transfer to other types of production related to sound, animation skill can only stay with animation. Thus less competitive for talent source. Companies will keep a good sound person, but won’t bother to keep a good animator unless that animator is famous.
Anime as a medium itself is also a form of expensive advertising really, it doesn’t make as much money as game industry to support all talents. That’s why it makes complete sense that game industry is growing while animation is shrinking.
Here is an excerpt from the article:
Finding a job in today’s tough economy is hard. But for Japanese college students, the country’s ultra-competitive recruitment process or “shu-katsu” which starts a year or more before graduation, takes things to a whole new level.
Recruitment Rhapsody, an emotional short animated film that captures the rigid and obstacle-ridden job hunt process Japanese students must endure has gone viral with more than 350,000 views.
Click the link to watch the animated short and to read the rest of the article. It was a very interesting read and the short seems to have brought about a lot of discussion on Japanese society by and amongst Japanese individuals. Seeing open discussion about such things is always great and I definitely recommend giving this short video (7 minutes long, roughly speaking) a quick watch.
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‘Elfin Song - a book of verse and pictures’ by Florence Harrison. Published 1912 by Blackie & Son Ltd., London.
