I still have no idea if this is Nakamura or not.

Goztone said:
I still have no idea if this is Nakamura or not.

only 3 people on the planet that would animate with an approach like this and only one of those is credited so pretty safe to say...

Goztone said:
I still have no idea if this is Nakamura or not.

It does look a bit stiff/stilted and choppy for a yn cut but the camerawork is in line with previous work.

BurntOkita said:
It does look a bit stiff/stilted and choppy for a yn cut but the camerawork is in line with previous work.

That's the main thing that makes me debate whether it's him or not. The camerawork is so clearly Yutapon, but it's not nearly as flowey and smooth as his typical stuff. Plus, I don't recall Nakamura ever doing work for OLM or P.A Works.

BurntOkita said:
It does look a bit stiff/stilted and choppy for a yn cut but the camerawork is in line with previous work.

stiff/stilted hoooooow?

low frame count =/= stiff

I still don't understand how people can get this mixed up with someone else honestly. Nakamura's recent work is a lot smoother and higher framerate yea, but looking at all of his work most of it relies more on snappy timing and posing. His late 90s early 2000s stuff looks like it's half kaneda style at some points. Plus the use of varying shapes on the blades to represent subtle shakes and twitches in the motion, some frames having light reflections on the blades, the way he makes sparks and the smears looking like phone camera motion blur. All of these things are stuff he's famous for. All with the same level of detail in choreography and cinematography as sword of the stranger. I know I don't know every animator that works in this style but there really can't be that many people in this world, or in the credits of this movie, that would go out of their way to animate exactly like this.

PurpleGeth said:
only 3 people on the planet that would animate with an approach like this and only one of those is credited so pretty safe to say...

Who are the other two?

SoapSuddz said:
Who are the other two?

Masahiro Ando, the animator who inspired much of Nakamura's style in the mid 00's and Masahiro Sato, also a student of Ando's.

Yutapon is definitely here in some capacity since he's actually credited (with his usual pen name), but I wouldn't be surprised if Masahiro Sato slipped in NC for a cut or two or more.

PurpleGeth said:
Yutapon is definitely here in some capacity since he's actually credited (with his usual pen name), but I wouldn't be surprised if Masahiro Sato slipped in NC for a cut or two or more.

Which cuts do you suspect?

hard to say because it doesn't look like either of them did their own genga but from 0:09 to the end feels more like something Sato would draw