#anime background art
Love Live movie backgrounds. Art Director Okazaki Erika has worked also in Akagami no Shirayukihime anime and the similarity in style is obvious to anyone. Her style in digital backgrounds is visible troughout the movie.
Here are some of her BG’s from Akagami
http://animebackgroundart.tumblr.com/post/139706698661/backgrounds-studio-easter-art-director-okazaki
http://animebackgroundart.tumblr.com/post/139707060391/as-much-as-id-love-to-highlight-how-good
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What really was impressive about Doukyuusei were not Chiaki Nakamura’s beautiful and detailed backgrounds but the storyboard which brought them alive. Director was the same as in the Mawaru Penguindrum and he clearly has found great chemistry with Nakamura.
Cityscape and the rooms feel alive and used just like in Nakamura’s previous works. She also has history of working with legendary. Shichiro Kobayashi.
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Last episodes of Gintama (2015) had some epic color planning and digital effects on the backgrounds. Ever since Tsutomu Ishikagi founded Ishikagi Productions it has gotten responsibility over many major shows suchs as Gintama and Detective Conan movies. Art Director Takayoshi FUKUSHIMA best known from AnoHana was responsible for majority of Gintama season 4.
Backgrounds: Mainly by Y.A.P Ishikagi Production.
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Lupin 3 (2015) TV-series
Backgrounds: Inspired and Anime Workshop Basara
Art Director and Setting: Yasuhiro Yamako, here some earlier work from him http://animebackgroundart.tumblr.com/post/126137991491
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Hotaru no Haka, Grave of the Fireflies
Studio Ghibli 1988, Art director: Ghibli’s own Yamamoto Nizo
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Jinrui wa Suitai Shimashita backgrounds
Backgrounds: Team TillDawn, Inspired and Design Office Mecaman. Team TillDawn is a support studio which is represented by the director Seiji Kishi and they take part in many of his shows such as Assassination Classroom. Both art directors have past connections with both Kishi and the ufotable’s background team.
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Movie: Kokoro ga Sakebitagatterun da.
Beauty of these digital backgrounds by a relatively no-name team, except Ishikagi bros. Great color control and remarkable use of digital possibilities. Next movie with so great visuals will be Shinkai’s Kimi no na wa.
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Kyoto Animations background team has been awesome from way back when Aka-chan to Boku was made and had KyoAni BG’s in number of episodes. Here’s some backgrounds from the anime Air. Not only is the brush work from early digital era way ahead of its time, but the layouts and storyboard are so well planned that it supports the bg artists in creating appealing pictures.
Source:https://www.reddit.com/r/anime/comments/4eet61/kyoto_animation_background_art_air/
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Yoshihara Shunichiro is back in business with his old team. People have been asking me why Kabaneri of the Iron Fortress looks like Shingeki no Kyojin. Well there is more to it than just being from the same animation studio Studio WIT (formerly part of Production I.G) and having the same raising star Tetsurou Araki as the director..
Like in the Titans in Kabaneri there’s the same background team from thai-Japanese company Bihou Inc. Art director Yoshihara Shunichiro, who is one of the best and promising art directors of his generation. There also are his trusted co-workers Director of Photography Yamada Kazuhiro who has worked with him many times and art designer Aoki Kaoru (Titans, Jojo, Evol). What a way to start the series. This will definitely prove to be one of the best background art series of the season.
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GATE episode 4 (+ 1st picture from ending)
Backgrounds: Studio Tulip
Art Director: Takahashi Miho (Galilei Donna, Tegami Batchi, Amagami)
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Some nice 3D and digital backgrounds in the Psycho Pass movie. BG-team wasn’t exceptionally good or notable and the whole movie had troubles with all visuals.
Shiotani Naoyoshi is a great director, but he certainly has troubles trying to keep up schedules and animation quality in his longer works. Especially Psycho Pass franchise has always had production troubles. Season 1 had episodes 18-19 which were aired even though they were only partly completed (for which he apoligized in his twitter) and the whole season 2 which looked awful.
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The young and promising Bihou Inc. art director Yoshihara Shunichiro (Shingeki no Kyojin, Terra e, Jojo remakes) brings about another beautiful movie. The coloring and adjustements in the digital backgrounds are superb. Especially the coloring of the skies are classic Yoshihara.
Movie: Glass no Hana to Kowasu Sekai
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Some backgrounds from Non non Biyori: Repeat. The second season wasn’t a let down at all. If anything the quality of the backgrounds was even higher than in the previous season. I really like how they added the “acryl paint”-feeling to otherwise sharp digital colors and outlines. Backgrounds in Non non Biyori play a vital part in immersing the viewer to the idyll life in the countryside.
Backgrounds: Kusanagi (and some korean sub-contractors)
Art director: Kusakabe Natsuki
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As much as I’d love to highlight how good backgrounds Akagami has, I can’t. Studio Easter send their “newbie” department to do the job and the outcome is nothing extraordinary. Some beautiful lens flare effects on the skies and that’s about it. Good thing that Bones has good photography department.
But atleast we can enjoy good storyboarding and heartwarming romances.
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Albeit I might prefer paperdrawn background art, I can’t deny that Ufotables instaff background staff knows how to take advantage of todays digital effects and tools. You don’t see this kind of lighting and shading in your everyday anime. Ufotable shows that just by paying attention to the special effects in the sky you can make the whole world seem very different.
Well to be honest the beautiful special effects should be credited to the photograph department. But since they have to co-operate with the BG-team I wouldn’t want to draw a too big distinction between background art and special effect art, atleast in the works of ufotable.
Series: Fate Stay Night: Unlimited Blade Works (ufotable ver.)
Backgrounds: Ufotable background staff
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Rolling Girls backgrounds
INABA, Kunihiko(eps 3, 5)
KŌNO, Ryō(eps 4, 6, 8-9)
SHIBAYAMA, Eriko(eps 4, 6, 8-9)
TAKAHASHI, Shinobu(ep 7)
TAMURA, Seiki
YOSHIHARA, Shunichiro(ep 1)
Background studios:
Anime Workshop Basara
Atelier BWCA
Kyung Kang ANIA
See Throu Studio
Bihou, Inc.
Studio Blue
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Random background pictures from Shinkai. The first one is a poster picture of his new movie which will air in Japan later this year. Kimi no na wa seems very promising.
Since 5cm per second he has had a better understanding of importance of the photography department (job in charge final editing and combining of pictures as well in charge of the special effects and light&shadow). He can make any background look awesome.
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Makoto Shinkai’s movie Kotonoha no Niwa - the Garden of Words is mindblowingly beautiful. The level of detail is superb. Shinkai has a deep undestanding how to use shadows as well as bright lights. He knows how to make even an ordinary scene look extraordinary. Even the most basic things like sitting on a bench can be breathtaking when you watch Shinkai’s movie.
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I rewatched Shinkai’s works this week and Hoshi wo Ou Kodomos visual beauty struck me once again. It is a shame that this movie is so underrated because of the enormous expectations it had. Sure it is lacking in many ways, but still a movie more than just worth watching. Here are just few panorama and sky shots, I’ll probably upload more backgrounds of movie later.
Art Director / 美術監督: Makoto Shinkai, 新海誠
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One Punch Man has not only really cool animation, but backgrounds as well. They put much attention to the camera angle, perspective and on the sky.
Backgrounds: Atelier Musa, Madhouse staff (presumed)
Art director(s): Ikeda Shigemi (presumed leading art director) and Maruyama Yukiko
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Anime: Hyouge mono
Art Director: Umino Yoshimi (freelancer) (Ben-to, .hack//-series)
Backgrounds: Madhouse background department
Sometimes a great design and background doesn’t need anything except simplicity - art design can be wabi if I may say so, but I must admit that I prefer complex and beautiful designs such as these over simple and humble esthetics of wabi.
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