The Motivated Camera
Youmacon 2018
Saturday 4:30PM in Panel Room 140 B & C
Panel Description
Animation can display anything, from any angle, in any space. How does anime use this freedom? In this panel, we cover the history of anime director as auteur, animating on a budget, and basic visual storytelling. Together, we'll see how a motivated camera can drive empathy and create new meaning.
Resources
Opening Slides
Clips
sakugabooru linked where available
Part 1 - Why the camera?
Cowboy Bebop: The Movie
Tsuki ga Kirei
My Hero Academia
The End of Evangelion

Part 2 - East vs West
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
Baby Bottleneck (Daffy Duck)
The Sweatbox (clip 1)
The Sweatbox (clip 2)
Star Driver
Scooby-Doo, Where Are You! (Background vs Foreground)
Scooby-Doo, Where Are You! (Limited Acting)
Steven Universe
Dragonball Z
.hack//Sign
Revolutionary Girl Utena
Kill la Kill (Limited Animation for Comedy)
Attack on Titan (Compositing CG)
The SoulTaker

Part 3 - Common Techniques
Your Name
JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Stardust Crusaders
Hyouka (Fisheye)
Hyouka (Dolly Zoom)
Neon Genesis Evangelion (POV)
Kill la Kill (POV)
Sound! Euphonium
Yurikuma Arashi

Part 4 - Serving the Narrative
Terror in Resonance (POV)
Terror in Resonance (Following Action)
Terror in Resonance (Driving)
Terror in Resonance (Localized Anxiety)
Terror in Resonance (Exposition)
Terror in Resonance (Impossible Camera)

Part 5 - Active Movement
Cannon Fodder
Attack on Titan (Horses)
Kill la Kill (mixed CG)
Land of the Lustrous (Fight Scene)
Land of the Lustrous (Establishing Shot)
Mob Psycho 100

Part 6 - Synthesis
The End of Evangelion (Suspenseful)
The End of Evangelion (Triumphant)
Cowboy Bebop
Mawaru Penguindrum
Sources and Inspiration
Sakuga Panel from Anime Central 2013
Why over sixty years of animation history still remains obscure
No Necks Allowed
David Fincher - And the Other Way is Wrong

See also: an earlier version of this panel from Anime Central 2018

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