Live action photography is used as reference material for animation all the time.
Even simple lighting effects.

Whatever it ends up being - most likely used as reference for a digital effect in the final film - I’m loving the film school like playing around & experimenting that is going on at Khara!

Kinda think the days of “DC messing things up” is going to be over soon if it already isn’t. All the big mistakes of the past few years have been fallouts from the foolish decision to dive head first into a Cinematic Universe without doing any groundwork. I think they’re going to learn the lessons o...

Never understood why people believed the Khara2 Twitter account was run by Anno himself. That’s almost an impossibility. It’s very rare for professional filmmakers of his age (approaching 60) to bother with social media & the ones who do are usually much younger &/or do so through their own ...

I mean if we're talking about how long this series has taken just think that when Evangelion 1.0: You Are (Not) Alone was released Tobey Maguire was Spider-man.* We've gone through a couple Spider-men (too many Spider-men) since this series began. *Not to mention the Marvel Cinematic Universe - goin...

Noice. From the Khara2 Twitter account: https://twitter.com/khara_inc2/status/986086540014071808 They're watching SOMETHING in the editing room. Something we're not allowed to see. - Note: Things are only quiet right now because everyone behind the closed doors of Studio Khara is CURRENTLY hard at w...

Everybody talks about why they don't like Mari but no one asks the other important question - Does Mari like you?

"When I was a kid, whenever I would feel small or lonely, I would look up at the stars. Wonder if there was life up there. Turns out I was looking in the wrong direction...."

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/a-giant-crack-opens-in-kenya-but-whats-causing-it/?linkId=50036417

I'll stick around but will certainly be less frequent. Probably will stick to the Film thread and some other discussion sections. I'll treat the Rebuild section like I do the general NGE sections on here - there's occasionally a good conversation that I'll throw my two cents into but in general I'll...

I think Nic Pizzolatto's massive chip on his shoulder from not getting all the credit for the greatness of Season 1 ( he was usually given credit after Cary Fukunaga's great direction & Matthew McConaughey + Woody Harrelson's excellent performances & apparently took great insult from that ) ...

Detail. But not confirmed.
Could very well be the same person.
We'll know in June.

It's a bad movie from start to finish. Probably will never think about it again. This will be my one post on it. Plus, watching the original right before going to see the new one especially highlighted the vapid experience Uprising was. I'd be curious to see what Guillermo Del Toro's original plan f...

I kinda loved FLCL: Alternative Episode 01. I liked the camaraderie between the four girls & I'm liking how (this season at least) seems to be less sexuality teenage angst & more "what the hell am I going to do with my life" angst. It's certainly not the go-for-broke-we're-using-al...

Well the “changes” aren’t meant to offer anything to the original story (NGE) because the filmmakers have explicitly branched off to tell a new story (Rebuild). Characters and themes that were central to one version are not as important or even present in the other. Both versions, of course, share A...

So basically, FLCL's own NTE An apt comparison. One that will especially be unavoidable in the places online where conversations usually start &/or end with " The Rebuild movies are the worst of all time! I give them a 0 out of 10 stars !" ** If anything I expect the first new season ...

I’m predicting these two new seasons of FLCL will be perfectly fine and enjoyable. They won’t equal the lighting in a bottle/completely fresh experience of the original but they’ll still be solid narratives that while often retreading elements & scenes from the original will still introduce new ...

Sounds like my long held belief that the movie is much further along in production than most people think remains true.

New Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lleTz_DQTh4 FLCL2 is now named FLCL: PROGRESSIVE and starts airing June 2nd. FLCL3 is now named FLCL: ALTERNATIVE and comes out in September. I'm here for it. Hoping the trailer is only using similar images from the original series as a way to lure viewer...

What Reichu said. 1.0 is okay. 2.0 is "the best thing ever!" 3.0 is "the worst thing ever!" Like her, I also tend not to worry what other faceless online "people" think. In a one-on-one or group discussion it's a very different matter where you can listen to one another...

The second anime Godzilla movie has been given a Japanese release date of May 18. If they follow a similar release pattern to the first film then it should hit Netflix worldwide something in mid-to-late-July. You can probably already stencil in the third & final film for a Japanese release in mi...