Toradora appears to be an anime where the staff have been uncharacteristically dependent on taking their cameras around Tokyo in order to make the backgrounds; a great number of such scenes have been discovered, and doubtless there are many more:
These scenes are all from northern Tokyo (Kita-ku), though a letter in the show lists Aisaka’s address as being in Saitama.
Photoshop anime or legitimate use of photographic reference, call it what you will, but it seems we are receiving a rather convincing picture of northern Tokyo whilst viewing the title. And of course such economies can have positive effects on overall production values.
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I don’t care its still my favorite anime. In fact i like even more for having real settings.
I know perspective, i have studied it for more than 10 years, and if the post implies what i think, that photos have been traced, i think is unfair.
it seems in order to make this backgrounds pictures have been indeed taken “as reference” in order
to have all the detail they have, but actual backgrounds have been rendered by hand and not traced over,
Why i affirm this:
if they had been traced over the visual mistakes produced by the curvature of the earth would appear, an instead i see all architectural elements to allign quite nicely with the imaginary lines, , that converge in the vanishing point. (one has to draw when using perspective,which proves perpectives rules aren’t all that precise and don’t reflect rality just take a look at M.C. Escher drawings)
just take a look at the 2nd photo in it the curvature i talk about is quite obvious, while in the rendered background the elements look more alligned,
straight lines rather than curves.
This might not be the only photo of that street, nab. and ofcourse he’s using basic drawing techniques when producing background CGs for an anime scene. That’s what he’s a background CGer for. Some people are fckin stupid and fail to see the big picture.
In before “I’ve had enough of these comparison shots, Artefact, don’t you have anything better to post.”
Also, I prefer the 2D renditions of certain places to their 3D counter-parts =3=
That’s because they use vibrant colors and unrealistically pretty clouds and they can easily tweek lighting and add pretty details and usually leave out details of realism that would be perceived as less pretty comparing them with their 2D counterparts.
How nice, Taiga lives in my hometown…now I know where to look. She’s turning this anime into s♥♥t & she must pay. I kinda like the Kannagi scenes better. Its always great to see the places you’ve been to in an anime.
Is this a stroke of lazyness, or an overkilled attempt at animators wanting fans to go “omg I know where that is!”?
Use as a reference seems more likely, given that Toradora!’s equivalent real-life locations aren’t known and knowledge of these resemblances are mostly unknown by otaku.
Not a negative comment towards the show, of course. I think it looks swell.