It's been said before, but it bears repeating: Simon just defeated his girlfriend's father with his CAR KEYS!

Kigami's credited for layout(solo) and key animation in this movie.
I guess he's at least responsible for the rough animation of these scenes.

I really liked how the film was ambitious in 3D camera panning. Makes me wonder if there's other traditionally animated media that employs background animation most of the time.

JanEstra said:
I really liked how the film was ambitious in 3D camera panning. Makes me wonder if there's other traditionally animated media that employs background animation most of the time.

Aside from those animations for 2D video games there's Osamu Tezuka's Jumping.

JanEstra said:
I really liked how the film was ambitious in 3D camera panning. Makes me wonder if there's other traditionally animated media that employs background animation most of the time.

The Captain Power series of training videos feature 3 episodes of non stop background animation. There's some looping and reusage, but there's a lot of impressive work there. A young Shinya Ohira was one of the ADs. http://youtu.be/1FAuDYqaW58?t=2m5s

Anipages also covers it in his post on 'Anime games' - http://www.pelleas.net/aniTOP/index.php/anime-games

Murota confirmed he worked on it but there's more animators so I'd rather leave it as unknown. No CG references or roto of any kind, by the way.

sakugaku said:
This film had no credits, all animators were anons but only Ohira could have done something like this back then.

The film's release date is 1985, Ohira was only an inbetweener then and he was still primarily a Masahito Yamashita style animator in the mid 80s, his change to realist animation didn't happen until many years later...

So unless you have a source, I'll tag it as artist_unknown.

sakugaku said:
I still believe that Ohira made this. It would be insane if there was another Ohira before Ohira.
Also, it's very similar to Ohira's work in Akira.

There were and still are plenty of talented animators that don't come up as 'sakuga legends' - I think it's a very naive of you to think only Ohira was capable of something like this, you're discrediting the work of other people doing so. Also there's no nice way to say this but Ohira's output from 1985-1987 was really not on the level of this film, nor anything like his work on Akira. Watch Ohira's stuff from Tobikage/Machine Robo/Bubblegum Crisis/ZZ Gundam; it's extremely Yamashita-like and unlike this. There's a reason why Ohira's Akira work is remarkable because there was such a drastic shift in the quality of his work.

In any case, I've done a bit of research on this film and found out it's the work of Hiroshi Harada, he was the sole animator on this film. This film was his thesis project for when he was studying at school/college. He'd work on commercial films like Doraemon during the day and come home and work on this film at night. It took him almost 3 years to complete this project. He was even nominated at the Pia Film Festival in 1985 for his work on this film.

Oh no, isn't that the same guy who solo'd Shoujo Tsubaki because it was so controversial no one wanted to fund it? That's not a movie I want to remember... >_<

duckroll said:
Oh no, isn't that the same guy who solo'd Shoujo Tsubaki because it was so controversial no one wanted to fund it? That's not a movie I want to remember... >_<

Controversial? Sweet! I'll plan on watching that.

"These key animation frames from the dramatic last moments of Attack on Titan episode 9 used CG camera work to get the positioning just right for this “bullet time”-style cut."

I noticed the english lettering, I wonder if there were foreign key animators?

JanEstra said:
I noticed the english lettering, I wonder if there were foreign key animators?

No that's just standard keyframe notation. IIRC the letter is the layer and the number is just for ordering.

Ah, thanks for clearing it up.

JanEstra said:
I noticed the english lettering, I wonder if there were foreign key animators?

This frame?
http://i.imgur.com/hp00c2r.jpg

I think they are notes by the color coordinator.

khwan said:
This frame?
http://i.imgur.com/hp00c2r.jpg

I think they are notes by the color coordinator.

Those look like they could be filenames for shadow or highlight effect layers to me, which would explain why they're in English.

How in the world can you post work from the Animator's Survival Kit and not know that it's Richard Williams?

LD said:
How in the world can you post work from the Animator's Survival Kit and not know that it's Richard Williams?

Neil Boyle's also credited for the animation in Animator's Survival Kit DVDs.
(His name actually appears in the credit before Richard Williams)

Williams didn't mention that he animated this cut himself.

Can a "presumed" tag be used for the both of them then?

I know that Boyle is somewhat active on the net, anyone want to shoot him a question and confirm?

Source?

How can you not love this

In my opinion it'd be easier to read as a stepped sequence instead of fading.

Sorry if this sounds irrelevant, but do animators warm-up before doing a cut? If so, what warmups do they perform before doing a cut?

Depends on the animator, some like to thumbnail stuff down or just in general warm up drawing figures. What really matters is the end result though.