#studio trigger

[drilanime]

[swampjawn]

Time to talk an unnecessary amount about floors!

Episode 6 of Dungeon Meshi was produced in collaboration with a smaller studio, Enishiya - and it went way harder than I expected, for being made up of two relatively simple and self contained stories focusing on one character each.

And you can really see how those extra resources meant the animators could give full focus to both halves of the episode. Let's take a look at one piece that stole the show.

The first half was handled primarily by episode director/storyboard artist Keita Nagahara and co-animation director Hirotoshi (or Hiroaki? [1]) Arai. It's actually kinda insane how much of this section can be attributed to these two.

But the real star of the show is the second half, Chilchuck vs the mimic, led by co-animation director Toya Ooshima in his first animation director role for TV anime!

And the biggest aspect that knocked my dang boots off was something that's very consistent with Ooshima's style: background animation!

By animating the backgrounds rather than using painted still images, Ooshima and the team of other similarly skilled animators are able to create these beautiful dynamic camera movements that wouldn't be possible otherwise. Like these cuts by Takeshi Maenami where the camera becomes an expressive part of the scene, zipping forward and backward, and tilting to emphasize the speed of this murderous hermit crab. (Maenami's style is also very recognizable here - snappy timing and quick camera movements)

Or this cut by the incredible Kaito Tomioka which cleverly combines a traditional background for the walls with a fully animated floor. The level of detail in these tiles is just completely insane, and used to great effect with this wide, diagonal angle, and the way the camera tentatively drifts forward before reversing direction, and the tiles blur out as it speeds up.

I don't think I'm the only one caught off guard by how much they full-assed this little side story, but it was a pleasant surprise!

I broke down the entire episode in this video here. A lot of research went into this one, and I think it's the best one of these videos I've made so far, so if you're at all interested in more of this type of analysis in video form, I would really appreciate it if you checked it out, or re-blogged this post! Thanks

[1] It's listed as Hirotoshi on Anime News Network, but Hiroaki on a key frame that Studio Trigger shared on Twitter, so I'm not sure which one is wrong.

[brokenmimir]

Studio Trigger going off

[cryoverkiltmilk]

STUDIO TRIGGER HAS UPHELD THEIR OBLIGATION.

[wayward-delver]

Trigger have outdid themselves in Dungeon Meshi, giving us an absolutely stellar Dragon Hunt. The Red Dragon was absolutely terrifying.

The animation, pacing, and writing were peak from start to finish.

[amethystsoda]

[savaralyn2]

Dungeon Meshi - Some of the on-paper animation work for the cooking scenes.

[archemedian]

This is the smallest thing, but I like how dungeon meshi not just slowly introduces more gore with more details over time, but also *almost only ever uses gore in the context of carving up the monster after the action has finished*, usually for consumption. Like yeah, the action was intense, huh? Anyway let's use the gory imagery to explore how deeply disturbing the act of consumption can be. Let's step into the *literal* guts of this everyday, commonplace ritual that we normally don't think twice about. Love it

[numberonefjordfan2020]

Official tweets for dunmeshi ep 10!

Episode 10

Aoi Abe

Emi Tamura

YÜTA

Simon Dohi

Mahmoud Moftah

Tomoyuki Munehiro

Yoshihiro Miyajima

[oddishblossom]

A Firefighter’s Kiss

PROMARE (2019) by STUDIO TRIGGER FAVORITE SCENES (4/?) (Happy 4th Year Anniversary 💖)

[bukkitbrown]

I feel like tumblr is the place that would best understand the sheer amount of gender euphoria jm experiencing in this cosplay lol

Traditional problems require creative solutions

[zenitsuinamogus]

Senshi saving Chilchuck from the Living Armor aka Finally, Some Delicious Dwarf Fanservice

Immaculate Dwarven Pussy Energy

[shimutsuki]

[morenevermore]

This one was fun

[aryelsereio]

SLASHING RIGHT THROUGH THE FIRE

[cruelangel94]

David and Lucy

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