Holy shit, who would have thought...

[Terracosmo]

Originally posted by: Y

Originally posted by: Terracosmo
Let me clarify this again: Every single Naruto episode is done by a team EXCEPT the ones that look kickass. They are made by one single guy.

So all the times we've been saying "Woo hope the good team does this episode" it has been only one person all along.

They're good because he only does 1 episode a year. He also has a full studio's digital graphics processing equipment to work with. Still, this DOES explain why it has such a unique art style, assuming the site is accurate (which I really have no reason to assume it is).

Point taken, but to be fair, he animates other things than Naruto every year.
Also, I severely doubt someone would fix a .net site just to throw up fake info about random japanese guy that nobody knows the name of. Also, the info on Hideaki Anno seems to be valid, so there is no reason to believe the other info is false.

[Y]

Originally posted by: Terracosmo
Point taken, but to be fair, he animates other things than Naruto every year.
Also, I severely doubt someone would fix a .net site just to throw up fake info about random japanese guy that nobody knows the name of. Also, the info on Hideaki Anno seems to be valid, so there is no reason to believe the other info is false.

Yeah that was a typo, see the edit.

This is extremely impressive, and indicative of what a full team SHOULD be able to do with heavy digital postprocessing effects. I mean, check out the Sasuke/Oro fight. Lots of shots are medium range to avoid having to draw much detail, or heavily digital (like taking a still of Oro and blurring it to get the running effect). He's a decent artist (assuming he does all the fucked up perspective shots on purpose) but he really shines in being able to get the most out of the materials he's working with. It reminds me of Makoto Shinkai, who animated an entire CG-heavy short film in his spare time on his Mac in six months.