pixar animanga series

[brick1988]

with all the animes tht pull to far off of the original manga and have too much filler; who here would like to see an anime series like DBZ be redone to be almost 100% accurate to the manga fitting as many novel episodes into hour long mega-sodes as possible; say 3 manga episodes for each animanga episode on tv, and remade in pixar type animation instead of old animation

[Nik Hasta]

You are aware that Dragonball Kai is essentially this right?

It's DBZ with the filler cut out and improved animation.

[brick1988]

i havent heard of db kai? is it only available in japan?

[Hazard]

i havent heard of db kai? is it only available in japan?

Dragonball Kai is currently being broadcast in Japan. Currently they are at episode 23; as of now it is unknown whether it will be dubbed. You can find it subbed on youtube though.

[brick1988]

thanx for the tip
maybe they do this for the other great mangas like inuyasha n yuyu hakusho too

[The Xenos]

I know Hellsing is getting the remake treatment too with Hellsing Ultimate. Fullmetal Alchemist too is being remade closer to the manga. Both have episodes out in the US either on DVD or on Funimation's website.

I don't see older series like Inuyasha or Yu Yu Hakusho being quite as big as DBZ or short enough as Hellsing to be remade.

Meanwhile, the grammar vampire nazi in me is having a fit with your orignal post. Animanga isn't a word, save for a marketing gimmick name for some really awful books from TokyoPop. One of them uses images of Paris Hilton's reality show. I have it so that I may never forget.

As for Pixar animation, well, I wish more CGI was on Pixar's level. Not all 3d rendered animation deserves to be called Pixar, certainly not stuff on TV. Not just as a quality issue, as I think they're tops, but I'm sure other studios hate it when all CGI animation is called Pixar. Though I do remember the day when Reboot was cutting edge animation.

Meanwhile, a lot of anime uses 3-d animation already, some better than others. Witch Hunter Robin used CGi backgrounds instead of traditional paint, they had just renders behind the cel animated characters. Last Exile used CGI for the ships. Ghost in the Shell had some of the best blending of 3D and cell animation and was an exquisite production. Of course many mech shows use CGI for their detailed mech.s

[Sound Silence]

I'd prefer anime stay traditional, or at least most of it (unless they do something that lends itself well to the 3d style).

There's way too much CGI hype now, and I don't understand it. There's nothing better about either one, but it seems no one wants 2d stuff anymore.

[brick1988]

I'd prefer anime stay traditional, or at least most of it (unless they do something that lends itself well to the 3d style).

There's way too much CGI hype now, and I don't understand it. There's nothing better about either one, but it seems no one wants 2d stuff anymore.

well its not so much of not wantin to do 2d, but just to experience a show uve seen in 2d in a 3d remake with high resolution and even hi def 2d is intense wen used right, but 3d is always intense

[brick1988]

Meanwhile, the grammar vampire nazi in me is having a fit with your orignal post. Animanga isn't a word, save for a marketing gimmick name for some really awful books from TokyoPop. One of them uses images of Paris Hilton's reality show. I have it so that I may never forget.


well the word animanga as i use it came out of a line of inuyasha manga that got reprinted in the anime color and language from its original comic owner company; it may not be a real word yet, but how many new words are in the dictionary now that people 50 years ago didnt even know existed?

[critical mass]

well its not so much of not wantin to do 2d, but just to experience a show uve seen in 2d in a 3d remake with high resolution and even hi def 2d is intense wen used right, but 3d is always intense

3D usually makes things intensely shitty, you got that right.

[The Xenos]

C'mon. 3D rendered cgi animation is not automatically bad. Though I also say it's not automatically good. There are mountains of bad cgi cartoons out there.

As for the good, Miyazaki's been using it since Mononoke. I didn't even notice it until I saw a making of video. The thing is, he did it well. There's the real hook. It's all in how well the 3D is blended in and how well the final rendered product looks. The trouble isn't 3D animation itself, the trouble is studios that don't created a finished looking product that sticks out like a sore thumb.

For example, UP had some damn good rendering and style to it. Actually, I noticed starting with at least Ratatouille there's a disclaimer in the credits that no motion capture was done. See, Pixar understands that for animation to look good, you need to animate it, not just have someone in a motion caption suit. It's too stiff and life life while animators add a certain cartoon element that makes animation catch the eye. The same can be applied in mixing 3d with 2d animation where the 3d just looks too damn stiff.

well the word animanga as i use it came out of a line of inuyasha manga that got reprinted in the anime color and language from its original comic owner company; it may not be a real word yet, but how many new words are in the dictionary now that people 50 years ago didnt even know existed? Ah. I totally forgot Viz was playing that game too. I know Dark Horse did it with Trigun and Hellsing. I don't know which company started it but I think it's one of the dumbest book idea I've ever seen published and I saw the novelization of the LXG in a bargain bin the other day. We already have both the manga and the anime. Why would the customer and the market even need a book that reprints frames of the anime? It's flooding of the market with totally useless books. Hell, I remember the few I saw were of awful quality in that they didn't even have decent frame captures from the DVDs.

[ChrisIII]

Then there's Zemeckis, who is pretty much the anti-Pixar with his constant mocap and ugly characters.


Not that he's a bad director-he's the guy who gave us Back to The Future, Who Framed Roger Rabbit and a few good Tom Hanks movies-but he seems to be obsessed with the mo-cap/CGI thing lately, even more so than George Lucas.

[The Xenos]

Yeah. That's not animation, in my book anyway. That's special effects and it runs into all kinds of 'uncanny valley'. Maybe Cameron and Avatar seems to be a step up. Though already stuff like LotR's Gollum, Pirates's Davey Jones, or District 9 have done good jobs with CGI characters. Yet none of these are really animation. They're going for realism, not animating or rather cartooning. They're in a different, though parallel, category than cartoons like anime. Miyazaki does cartooning. Pixar does cartooning. And they both have wonderful stylized cartooning.