[EVA] ADV Platinum booklets reliability

[Carl Horn]

It's true that TV shows are on a much tighter schedule than movies or  
OAVs, but these still have release dates that can't be blown off  
without consequence--after all, they are made with marketing,  
distribution, and often, cross-promotion commitments to outside  
parties. If I recall, Death and Rebirth actually *was* late, in the  
sense that the original plan was that the entire "new" film was  
supposed to have been completed by that time; instead, that had to  
wait several months, until The End of Evangelion. This is why Rebirth  
ends on a cliffhanger, with the Mass Production units circling above  
Asuka; that was as far as they had gotten in completing it.

Gainax is better now, I would say, at budget and schedule than they  
were before Evangelion; of course, it could be argued that they made  
more worthwhile anime on average back when they lacked business  
discipline. But then, I don't have to make a living off producing  
anime; they do.

--C.

On Jan 10, 2010, at 2:01 PM, Peter Svensson wrote:

>
>> But don't tell me you can sit through episode 11 without wondering  
>> "why does everything look vaguely like it came out of a Ghibli  
>> film?" (of course, because Ghibli animated it)
>
> I can actually, but that's beside the point. Claiming that the  
> animation style in the Evangelion films and the revised footage is  
> entirely due to the influence of Production I.G. is erroneous.  The  
> assumption that Gainax was only able to produce better quality  
> animation because of their influence and not at all because of the  
> budget and scheduling differences between producing a television  
> series and making an OVA or a film is kinda silly. Eva TV's  
> animation was rushed because Gainax is physically incapable of  
> making a budget or a schedule that they can stick to reliably.
>
> Yes, anime gets subcontracted. TV 26 is one of the best examples of  
> which. But while studios will have slightly different  
> interpretations due to having different training and experience for  
> their animators, they will stick to the same basic style as they've  
> been hired to do.
>
> Hopefully.
>
> Peter Svensson
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