[thechat] sharks (was: rationality)

[Ben Dyer]

At 06:06 AM 1/7/2003, you wrote:
> > i'm really not so into the mixed CG and hand anime...
>
>Really?

I am, but only because the technology has finally caught up to the point
where the combination looks good.  Crap like Zoids or Initial D (besides
having lousy stories), also look stupid because the CG and cel animation
didn't look right.  Now though, with stuff like .hack, Macross Zero, Ghost
in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex, Tenchi Muyo! GXP and even slightly older
stuff like Cowboy Bebop look good because the integration is tight.

Of course, now it's getting to the point where even the cel animation is
done with computers.  Love Hina was done entirely with CG animation.  And
while that allows animators to do things they couldn't do before, it almost
seems like cheating...that and now nobody can buy cels for it...

--Ben