Transcription for Sakuga pt.4 - Hiroyuki Imaishi: Kanada-School to the Max, copied from Youtube's trasncript feature
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UQrvmNz6STE
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...and I'm gonna talk to you about Hiroyuki Imaishi.
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He's a known name.
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Imaishi is one of the founding members of the newly formed studio, "Trigger".
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He formerly worked at Gainax & Production I.G.
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Some of his big claims to fame are directing Gurren Lagann and Panty & Stocking.
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His art style really shows through in Gurren Lagann.
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He actually drew all the commercial "eyecatches" during the commercial breaks.
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He drew all of those.
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Like Kanada before him, Imaishi likes to utilize
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these heavy interior block shading techniques.
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I've got an example up here.
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Kanada's style is full of a lot more... shiny parts.
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It's unnecessarily complex
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while Imaishi is sort-of simplified.
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Imaishi's style comes very close to Kanada's
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but does not quite mimic it completely.
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Imaishi's shading technique is a bit less ornate, and in a side-by-side,
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I would almost call it the minimalistic version of Kanada-style.
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Imaishi-style can be considered an evolution of Kanada's when referring to movement.
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Both of these guys have the same take on how an animated subject
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should navigate an animated space.
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Their subjects snap from striking pose to striking pose.
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They are very pose-based movement paths.
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The focus is more on these main poses than the motion that happens between the poses.
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What has evolved from Kanada to Imaishi is
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the warping and dynamic aesthetic of these key poses.
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Imaishi takes it way further than Kanada did
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and bends the characters into extremes.
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He will pop the legs & arms way out in front
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and the bodies & heads really far back.
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He does this on purpose
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and Kanada did it a little bit, but not nearly as much or as far as Imaishi.
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I've got a little clipshow of Imaishi's stuff.
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We ignored Gurren Lagann and Panty & Stocking for this because
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this is probably stuff you haven't seen.
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This is an OVA that came out a few years ago called Re: Cutie Honey
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and there's a great bit where she gets hit, and her body actually turns into a wiggly noodle
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between poses here, and it's kind-of awesome.
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He's not really concerned with what these characters are doing in between their poses.
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He's more concerned about making as many interesting
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poses composed on the screen as possible.
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Kanada did this a lot before him,
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but just not as... crazy.
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This is a video game intro from Brave Fencer Musashi 2 ("Musashi: Samurai Legend" for PS2)
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by Square-Enix.
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Imaishi actually has a lot of episode director [and animation director] credits in various shows.
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At the end of the panel, you should go look him up and see what he's done
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because when he comes on to a show,
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it kind-of changes for a single episode, and that's nice to see.
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Moving along here, Sean is going to tell us about Ichiro Itano and the "Itano Circus".