Dedicated fans have already discovered the real life settings used as inspiration for the many backgrounds of newly debuted music anime Hibike! Euphonium, once more proving the stupendous capabilities of some otaku – as well as the amount of time on their hands.
Wow!
It’s amazing!
The IC card reader shot is wrong. The animation shows Suica and Passmo, but the picture shows Icoca and Pitapa. It shouldn’t be that hard to find a closer match!
They do what’s easiest. It doesn’t make any difference it it’s for animation or live action. For animation it’s a lot less work to have a reference photo then make up a background. There are also reference photo for thing like cars, props, etc.
I you live in an area where they shoot a lot of movies or TV you can sometimes recognize real life location. Typically when the plot has shots in different places they completely ignore the real geography. They make things that are kilometers apart seem like they are next door. If you see this sometimes it’s really funny.
Animation has really improved! Sometimes I have a hard time distinguishing animated version from the real one, like the rabbit fountain.
That’s not animated though, it’s a matte painting. Animation is the MOTION of something, what you are appreciating is a painting.
While I can’t fault them for their ability to translate these places to a digital format, I do wonder how many of them are just traced or painted over.
Take 63/64 and 67/68 as examples, it’s hard to believe that an artist simply copied those with extreme accuracy rather than painted over them.
Does is really matter though? As I see it, it give the show a sense of reality, allows fans to get closer to the characters by visiting the real-life locations and promotes tourism in the area. It’s a win-win-win situation.