Don't Leave Me Hanging On Like a Yoyo

MORE LINKS WHAT THE OH MY WOW

The first one!
The one immediately after the first!
The one not immediately after the first.

All those are compilations of key animation by this dude Hiroyuki Imaishi, who's things are also down there in one of those other posts. I've loved his style of animation for years I now realize, just without ever knowing it was this dude who was doing those things.

It's currently the end of the third week of this quarter, and time to start solidifying this concept. For a while I've been thinking of it in terms of what I'd want to show or do for this film, in terms of character animation, design, sound, story, etc. I was going with the character animation because that's easily the best thing to show, but I couldn't help but want to do and show more than just good character animation. So after a while of not getting anywhere with that thinking, I started deconstructing my thoughts and looked at it in different terms of: If I could only pick one aspect of a film that I had to spend a year working on, and absolutely nothing else, what would it be? I realized what I would really enjoy doing a few days ago, and today a workable story erupted in my mind during philosophy class.

So we'll see how this goes.

We've Yet To Crash

More inspirations...

There's only one place to go!

All the fights from Superjail are incredibly loose. And also insane.

GUITARS!

Specifically this episode of the show, as well as the director's other work, like Dead Leaves.

Like this.

Because blowing up the moon once isn't enough.

SKADOOSH

And because awesomeness and attractiveness are always important. The stylized, textured 2D also.

FASTER

There's not much fight scene, but there is a lot of awesome.

MOO

Both of the characters for mine are going to be human, so distinctive moves between them might be slightly harder to figure out, but probably not.

LASERS

It would be kinda cool if the fight somehow wound up over lava...

Watch the Way I Navigate

Right now I'm gathering sources of inspiration to figure out how this fight scene should go down. Some of what I've been looking at:

"Woah!"

Just finished watching through Afro Samurai. I've been wanting to do an aerial fight forever, and this part especially makes me want to do it even more.

"Yeah fighting!"

I liked the editing of the fights in Scott Pilgrim. From 3:30 to 4:00 in that video has really awesome editing. Even with the sound muted all of the energy of the scene still comes through. The focus form mine is supposed to be on the animation, but editing could also probably be used effectively.

"The touch!!"

80's music and robots are awesome.

"Ladadadadadada

Originally I wanted to do a musical, so I was looking at this. Even without the music, the back and forth is good, especially the bigger guns part near the end.

"AAAAAHHHH"

Haven't seen the whole movie yet, just a bunch of clips from it, but I appreciate its ludicrousness.

"SHOUTING LOUD WORDS

I also appreciate the cheesy awesomenss of this entire series. That video kicks into gear around the 0:50 mark.

"PUUUUNCH

I haven't actually watched this show, only heard about it, but this scene is cool.