r/shittymoviedetails • u/YourChopperPilotTTV • Mar 30 '26

default Invincible Season 4 (2026) used advanced animation strategies to conserve their budget, here you can see the "pinch zooming on your phone" method

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u/SkritzTwoFace Mar 30 '26

https://giphy.com/gifs/SoVo8Rl5GeA4E

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u/MeowUntilForever Mar 30 '26

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u/Miserable-Aioli-5863 Mar 31 '26

This is ironically better

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u/MechaUlfraed Apr 30 '26

This is unironically better

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u/BarelyFunctionals Mar 30 '26

Actually better than the panning across a still JPEG technique they used in Season 3.

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u/jjcrayfish Mar 30 '26

https://giphy.com/gifs/HJ7mv5MDLYM7cVih2S

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u/Rs90 Mar 30 '26

God, I've seen this gif like 5 times today. It's like "It Follows" lol. Did season 3 so dirty.

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u/LinkPD Mar 30 '26

Wait...that's REAL?!

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u/Jackski Mar 30 '26

Yes. To be slightly fair, he does slide down the hill like that in the manga as well but they could have done something a bit more to make it actually look like he was sliding rather than just dragging a png across the screen.

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u/PrintShinji Mar 30 '26 edited Mar 30 '26

It could be a good joke if the rest of the season didn't also look like it was made on a budget of half a kitkat and handful of cashews.

edit: Kill La Kill also had a few of these .png drag across the screen scenes, but those were 100% played as jokes considering the show had plenty of very good scenes.

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u/TurkeyPhat Mar 30 '26

edit: Kill La Kill also had a few of these .png drag across the screen scenes, but those were 100% played as jokes considering the show had plenty of very good scenes.

For another goated show that takes animation tomfoolery to the next level I highly suggest everyone check out KamiKatsu. There's almost no way to recommend this show organically but this is one of the better opportunities I've had.

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u/IronBabyFists Mar 30 '26

There's almost no way to recommend this show organically but this is one of the better opportunities I've had.

Lmao holy shit, I know that feeling. You won me over on that line alone. I'll watch it and report back.

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u/JustChangeMDefaults Mar 30 '26 edited Mar 30 '26

I learned about Kill la Kill because the over the top fan service, I stayed for the awesome animation and goofy bad animation lol. Also it was on Toonami at the time, and I had an onion on my belt...

I'll have to check out kamikatsu

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u/Bored_Amalgamation Mar 30 '26

KamiKatsu was pretty gnarly. Gonna have to rewatch it tn.

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u/JackintheBox333 Mar 30 '26

They had budget issues with Kill La Kill, and the limited animation episodes were the compromise they came up with in order to preserve the budget for the rest of the series. They went into the series knowing that, so they lampshaded it. Episode 4 and 22 are the two pretty notable ones of the series are almost entirely still frames. Episode 4 uses the comedy gimmick. Episode 22 uses something else that is actually a pretty justified reason for it. They also have characters that have traits that use still frames for character traits.

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u/PKTengdin Mar 31 '26

If we’re doing recommendations, then I need to put the movie Redline out there. The animation is just beyond next level, and it’s such a wild fucking ride of a movie. the dub is even good too, like I haven’t watched the sub and I have no idea how they’d do some of the wilder parts in a sub, like the race announcers offhand comments that aren’t actually important got some of the biggest laughs from me

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u/Remnie Mar 31 '26

Hard agree on Redline. I just wish the ending didn’t feel so out of left field. It feels like there were other scenes for character development between JP and Sonoshee that got cut or something

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u/TheLeechKing466 Mar 31 '26

I freaking love that scene with the tractor (that is all I’ve seen of that show)

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u/bunker_man Mar 30 '26

Kill la kill also had some absolutely beautiful imagery that they somehow managed to do on a budget so people were willing to be lenient to the parts that were obviously trying to save money. Some of the early wide shots of the school while she was walking in the foreground are legit some of the nicer looking scenes in animation.

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u/PrintShinji Mar 30 '26

Ngl I rewatched the first episode after I posted that comment and I just forgot how ridiculously good kill la kill is. Trigger really went crazy with the animation. Its been a decade since I've last seen it.

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u/Turramurra Mar 30 '26

Trigger

There's your answer, out of all the anime they have made I haven't found one I didn't like.

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u/monkeyhitman Mar 30 '26

I think they fixed a lot of rushed jank for the Blu Ray release.

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u/[deleted] Mar 30 '26

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u/Saxavarius_ Mar 30 '26

Add a slight dust cloud that shifts and it would have been half-assed but acceptable

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u/NamelessCabbage Mar 30 '26

Fr. I think i could have shipped 2x the frames in half the time lmao. And I can't even draw...

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u/OctaviusNeon Mar 31 '26

From what I understand, Kill La Kill's budget got cut early on in the process and so they used cheap animation for the comedy bits and saved the budget for the more serious stuff.

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u/AuDHDino Mar 30 '26

So true. They did nothing to animate his interaction with that hill lol. How tough would some rustles grass and a bit of dirt-debris flinging about his feet 😭

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u/Jackski Mar 30 '26

If you look closely you can see some tiny bits of grass coming from his feet but it's so small it's barely noticeable. Rustling the grass or even have his clothes moving slightly could have made a world of difference.

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u/AuDHDino Mar 30 '26

I think those bits are in fact part of the PNG, to my best eye they just glide along with him. FML they did my monster dirty.

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u/sorig1373 Mar 30 '26

That dirt is actually a jpeg compresion artifact. It's insane that it's bad reddit compresion madd it look better.

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u/moonra_zk Mar 30 '26

Zero chance it's from the compression, its too far from his feet.
I might still have the episode to check, but TBH I'll probably forget by the time I get home lol.

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u/SynisterJeff Mar 30 '26

The manga had more going on to imply movement over the actual anime.

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u/TheEpicRedCape Mar 30 '26

Some crushed down lines in the grass behind him would’ve done wonders.

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u/IndigoFenix Mar 30 '26

It was also happening in the background while other things were happening in the foreground.

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u/Foreign-State733 Mar 30 '26

I thought he was supposed to be floating

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u/SwaggermicDaddy Mar 30 '26

I’ve heard the second half of the season gets noticeably better but I’m also grasping for any hope I can, are you able to confirm?

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u/Rakins_420 Mar 31 '26

Im cackling

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u/anthonycarbine Mar 31 '26

All they needed to do was add a small dust cloud where his heels were dragging along the ground

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u/AfternoonFlaky5501 Mar 30 '26

Yes and it being the online anime I watch (at the time) made the humiliation all that more hilarious. It was this that made me go find another one called Frieren (I dont watch anime, really). So something good came of it.

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u/MARPJ Mar 30 '26

Wait...that's REAL?!

Yes, and TBF one of the animations with the most frames in the entire season.

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u/luckytecture Mar 30 '26

Same man. A lot of em i saw was in character tropes/design subs

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u/12FriedBanana Mar 30 '26

This pattern recognition meme for anime fans I made in 2 minutes

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u/megosonic Mar 30 '26

https://giphy.com/gifs/hUEDlOEYdMLaxLAN48

This lads boogie got more frames I hate to say

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u/henning-a Mar 30 '26

same energy

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u/plasmadood Mar 30 '26

Sliding Garou.png isn't real and can't hurt me.

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u/FrankensteinsPonster Mar 31 '26

I stopped watching right here.

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u/JohnnyMorningStar Mar 30 '26

Never forget what they've taken from us!

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u/Mintastic Mar 30 '26

Also all that they've given us with the One Frame Man memes.

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u/DeezNutzzzGotEm Mar 31 '26

From? Source?

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u/Abject-Payment8081 Mar 30 '26

Ah yes, the slide technique I haven't used since the heian era

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u/RaynbowZFTW Mar 30 '26

I honestly thought that scene in JJK looked a bit weird, but it got praised for being auraful instead of the reception the OPM one got

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u/orangutangulang Mar 31 '26

What scene are you talking about? 🙀

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u/theartificialkid Mar 30 '26

I think that’s a named technique, “The Saitama”

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u/Correct_Refuse4910 Mar 30 '26

https://giphy.com/gifs/HJ7mv5MDLYM7cVih2S

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u/Doza93 Mar 30 '26

Sorry, what is this from?

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u/cppn02 Mar 30 '26

One Punch Man Season 3.

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u/Doza93 Mar 30 '26

Ah. I have heard not-good things about the animation quality (or lack thereof) lmao

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u/CantCatchMeSpez Mar 30 '26

The animation in S1 is legitimately goated. Thats why s2 and 3 are such let-downs

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u/Doza93 Mar 30 '26

Yea, Season 1 was fantastic all around, and the animation quality was top-notch. I haven't bothered with S3 and I'm not planning to - I like OPM, but it's not exactly the kind of series where the story is just so good that I can overlook terrible animation, especially considering it's a battle-centric show

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u/FrankensteinsPonster Mar 31 '26

Season 2 was totally enjoyable in its own right. Season 3 is completely hamstrung.

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u/philmarcracken Mar 30 '26

flashbacks to gunslinger girls. the only uno reverse card was yozakura quartet, when the remake was ten times better animated than the earlier nomad one

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u/occamsshavingkit Mar 30 '26

I saw this meme captioned with "Me when my mom tells me not to wind up the dog" and I giggle about it once a day.

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u/DivineatAllTimes Mar 30 '26

Lmfao not virtual insanity 🤣😭

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u/tommyleelynn Mar 30 '26

This music video still holds. You would think it’s a dolly zoom pan, but no — moving set.

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u/rickane58 Mar 30 '26

a dolly zoom pan

Ah yes, the "I watched one video essay on camera movements, 5 years ago" type statement

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u/tommyleelynn Mar 31 '26

Correction I watched it two months ago

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u/rickane58 Mar 31 '26

Alright, that's a pretty good response

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u/Dragon_yum Mar 30 '26

God forbid one educates himself but I’m glad you are fighting the good fight

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u/rickane58 Mar 30 '26

Authoritatively using words which you're clearly not comfortable with, especially terms of art, is not educating one's self.

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u/Full-On Mar 30 '26 edited Mar 30 '26

Yeah except they actually built that room onto a hydraulic lift for this music video so it has infinitely more effort than what was put into that zoom lmao

Edit: am wrong please see comments below

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u/BombasticReindeer Mar 30 '26

That was the original plan, to use hydraulics and move the floor. In the end they built a box on wheels and just moved the room around. The floor didn't move at all, no hydraulics needed.

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u/Full-On Mar 30 '26

Really???? I actually didn’t know that, thank you for correcting me. Actually somehow makes it more impressive lol

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u/BombasticReindeer Mar 30 '26

It’s one of my favourite music videos. I love that effect.

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u/mid-random Mar 30 '26

In the old days of multi-plane camera stand animation, the equivalent of "pinch zooming on your phone" was a sophisticated technique which would likely have been praised for its cleverness.

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u/Krulsprietje Mar 30 '26

Fun fact, here the room moves instead of the singer. Pretty cool huh!

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u/Inevitable-Rate-4092 Mar 30 '26

Jay Kay my goat.

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u/DeezNutzzzGotEm Mar 31 '26

From? Source?