Would someone mind explaining how these roughs are done ? It looks like each frame and all it's individual aspects have been cut out. if that's the case, what's the purpose of doing that ?

Tengenmac said:
Would someone mind explaining how these roughs are done ? It looks like each frame and all it's individual aspects have been cut out. if that's the case, what's the purpose of doing that ?

This is what is known as a genga; meaning just the keyframes. It's what a cleaned-up animation looks like before the inbetweens( the necessary frames that give the drawing the illusion of movement) are added. I suggest you check the tag guidelines, so you'll know more about japanese terms like these: https://sakuga.yshi.org/wiki/show?title=tag_guidelines

To hopefully answer the question a little better: Presumably, the character is animated first, and then the debris is animated afterwards to ensure the timing is correct. The blank space is then removed so you can actually see all your layers, and preview the animation properly.

Ajay said:
To hopefully answer the question a little better: Presumably, the character is animated first, and then the debris is animated afterwards to ensure the timing is correct. The blank space is then removed so you can actually see all your layers, and preview the animation properly.

*facepalm* I messed up there, I didn't read that question right, my bad. Atleast I learned something new too, though.

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Ajay said:
To hopefully answer the question a little better: Presumably, the character is animated first, and then the debris is animated afterwards to ensure the timing is correct. The blank space is then removed so you can actually see all your layers, and preview the animation properly.

Ah Ok cheers. Now how would they have removed the blank space to show the backgrounds underneath ? If you look at any of the frames related to atomic knight, you can see a very thin white border around him and the debris. It literally looks like he's been hand animated, then cut out with a stanely knife and placed on the background. Very similar to this
https://sakuga.yshi.org/post/show/17753/animated-effects-genga-one-punch_man-sejoon_kim

It's hand drawn, but any space is removed once it's been scanned in. It's just a rough cut, so it'll just be done quickly with a polygonal lasso tool. If you cut it out physically, the individual debris would fall all over the place; you'd never be able to animate properly like that.

Oh ye that makes allot of sense. Cheers.