Let me start off by posting the exact scene I’m referring to:
In my humble opinion, this episode was thrilling and really got me excited to start Season 4. I was hearing controversial things about the new studio and the animation changes and such, but imo this scene was extremely well done and I can’t wait to keep progressing into the rest of the Season. I feel like I should explain that a little more so here goes:
Do I think Season 4’s animation was better than the prior Seasons? No. Different, sure, but not better or worse necessarily. Seasons 1&2 of AOT in my opinion have the best 2D animation I’ve seen in anime, even better than some anime films. Especially Season 2. Season 3 had stellar moments as well but the animation quality noticeable dipped in certain places. With this episode, I felt that the animation, whether it was 2D or 3D or a combination of both, was very good overall. Not quite reaching the highs of the prior season but certainly much better than the low moments of Season 3. I would prefer a consistently good mix of 2D and 3D animation, to 2D animation that is stellar in places but average most of the time, which was the case in Season 3.
I really like that this Episode changed up the lighting patterns that were present in the prior seasons. Seasons 1-3 had very dramatic and colorful lighting that matched its lofty&adventurous tone, but this Season has more bland lighting which is more consistent with the way the show is presenting War so far-as being gritty, violent, and quite frankly terrible. This series is trying to present War in a similar way to how a World War 2 film might present the terrible and violent nature of war, and I love it.
Attack on Titan is the only instance of me actually preferring an Anime to its Manga, and so far that hasn’t changed with Season 4(even though I’m only one episode in lmfao). I thought the whole basement Marley reveal was actually one of the most brilliant story progressions I’ve ever seen in any Japanese series, and ever since it happened, AOT has taken on one of the most disturbing tones of any series I follow, and this series has done a phenomenal job at capturing the horrors of human nature and fascistic symbolism in a truly brilliant way. IMHO.
I love this series, and Season 4 for me has started off with a bang, and the new animation studio should be proud.
@RayanOO , can we get some AOT tags my man?
In my humble opinion, this episode was thrilling and really got me excited to start Season 4. I was hearing controversial things about the new studio and the animation changes and such, but imo this scene was extremely well done and I can’t wait to keep progressing into the rest of the Season. I feel like I should explain that a little more so here goes:
Do I think Season 4’s animation was better than the prior Seasons? No. Different, sure, but not better or worse necessarily. Seasons 1&2 of AOT in my opinion have the best 2D animation I’ve seen in anime, even better than some anime films. Especially Season 2. Season 3 had stellar moments as well but the animation quality noticeable dipped in certain places. With this episode, I felt that the animation, whether it was 2D or 3D or a combination of both, was very good overall. Not quite reaching the highs of the prior season but certainly much better than the low moments of Season 3. I would prefer a consistently good mix of 2D and 3D animation, to 2D animation that is stellar in places but average most of the time, which was the case in Season 3.
I really like that this Episode changed up the lighting patterns that were present in the prior seasons. Seasons 1-3 had very dramatic and colorful lighting that matched its lofty&adventurous tone, but this Season has more bland lighting which is more consistent with the way the show is presenting War so far-as being gritty, violent, and quite frankly terrible. This series is trying to present War in a similar way to how a World War 2 film might present the terrible and violent nature of war, and I love it.
Attack on Titan is the only instance of me actually preferring an Anime to its Manga, and so far that hasn’t changed with Season 4(even though I’m only one episode in lmfao). I thought the whole basement Marley reveal was actually one of the most brilliant story progressions I’ve ever seen in any Japanese series, and ever since it happened, AOT has taken on one of the most disturbing tones of any series I follow, and this series has done a phenomenal job at capturing the horrors of human nature and fascistic symbolism in a truly brilliant way. IMHO.
I love this series, and Season 4 for me has started off with a bang, and the new animation studio should be proud.
@RayanOO , can we get some AOT tags my man?