Sexy acrobatic oppai anime Tetsuwan Birdy Decode: 2 has astonished fans by reaching a new level of animation quality. The seventh episode looks set to enter legend as a supreme expression of production quality taken to extremes:
Some are wondering whether DVD revisions will alter this quality to less legendary levels; there is some doubt about whether they will bother…
At least we still have some delectable images of the characters? As well as visually pleasing cosplay…
The “low quality” scene here, as well as the similar end fight in the series, feature what seem to be hand-drawn backgrounds. The camera moves *through* complicated scenes, which is challenging to animate. Most of the time in animation the camera is restricted to panning because then you can use a static background.
It seems clear that the “quality” was a deliberate choice: given a fixed budget, they chose to downres the image quality to allow themselves time to animate the backgrounds. Whether or not the result works for you or not is a matter of personal taste, but definitely watch the video (rather than just look at the still frames) before making a decision. (Honestly, the series’ end fight works much better, imo.)
the guy in charge of the animation in birdy (Ryouchimo) also worked on noein, the action sequences in ep7 and 12 look very much like those in noein… go figure :>
oh whoa, i didnt know this was a flash :B
jkjk |D
the animation is good actually. its smooth. so what if it looks odd?
i thought it was just the animator’s style. :S i didn’t mind it since the rest of the anime was pretty much top quality anyways. those scenes changed things up a bit.