{"id":403,"date":"2013-10-11T18:07:41","date_gmt":"2013-10-11T18:07:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fightinginthewarroom.com\/korra\/2013\/10\/11\/any-thoughts-on-the-change-in-animation-style\/"},"modified":"2013-10-11T18:07:41","modified_gmt":"2013-10-11T18:07:41","slug":"any-thoughts-on-the-change-in-animation-style","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fightinginthewarroom.com\/korra\/2013\/10\/11\/any-thoughts-on-the-change-in-animation-style\/","title":{"rendered":"Any thoughts on the change in animation style between seasons\/shows? It surely can&#8217;t just be me who thinks the quality has dropped, can it?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"281\" src=\"http:\/\/40.media.tumblr.com\/adf060272c7f32018104ed27140cf95e\/tumblr_muil5qMUpR1rs9cj9o7_500.jpg\" width=\"500\" \/><\/p>\n<p>No, it&rsquo;s not just you.<\/p>\n<p>I keep wanting to bring this up on the podcast, but the Japanese-based animation company Studio Pierrot is handling the majority of this season where as A:TLA and Book One were done by Korean-based animation company Studio Mir.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Studio Mir is going to be taking over The Beginnings episode, which means the flashback sprit world could be a return to form.<\/p>\n<p>Studio Pierrot simply uses fewer character keyframes, so there isn&rsquo;t a lot of motion while people are talking. They are a big fan of panning across scenes and switching the blur effect to give the illusion of a focus-pull, but those are movements that don&rsquo;t involve actually drawing the character again.<\/p>\n<p>So, the dialogue scenes have been missing some dynamic movement, but when it comes to the battles, Studio Pierrot hasn&rsquo;t shied away from some cool looking bending (Korra using the rope in Civil Wars comes to mind), so it&rsquo;s hard for me to tell if what we&rsquo;re looking at is Studio Pierrot having a less-dynamic style or Studio Pierrot working under budget constraints and having to reduce the number of drawings in non-action scenes.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Anyway. I&rsquo;m not happy about it, and I&rsquo;m noticing. Especially last week when everyone was on the docks and NOT MOVING except for their mouths. UUUUUUUGH.<\/p>\n<p>-Da7e-<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>No, it&rsquo;s not just you. I keep wanting to bring this up on the podcast, but the Japanese-based animation company Studio Pierrot is handling the majority of this season where as A:TLA and Book One were done by Korean-based animation company Studio Mir.\u00a0 Studio Mir is going to be taking over The Beginnings episode, which [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-403","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fightinginthewarroom.com\/korra\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/403","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fightinginthewarroom.com\/korra\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fightinginthewarroom.com\/korra\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fightinginthewarroom.com\/korra\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fightinginthewarroom.com\/korra\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=403"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fightinginthewarroom.com\/korra\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/403\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fightinginthewarroom.com\/korra\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=403"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fightinginthewarroom.com\/korra\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=403"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fightinginthewarroom.com\/korra\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=403"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}