>After the fourth skate, a special announcement [tokuh?] for "Ice Adolescence Yuri!!! On Ice The Movie" was screened. This time, I feel that we are one step, two steps closer to the ideal form of skating animation that we wanted to do since the TV series.
Watching it on a large screen, the background that used 3D CG and character drawing that used motion capture system were effective in expressing the cohesiveness of the rink and the blade, and the space of the arena.
We would like to blush it up even further in the movie itself.
Now, it's too early to talk about anything like making-of, let's end it here. Instead, let's imagine the behind-the-scenes of motion picture expression with a different film as an example, and think about the importance of direction...
[and he goes on to talk about Hitchcock's Frenzy (1972)]
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