#魔法使いの嫁

Hello ! I always forgot to post my animations here xD

Anyaway I used for the first time Retas Suite to animate. It was pretty hard to understand at first, but now I get why japanese studios use this soft~

I even tried compositing a bit :D

Complexity and details are but one way to make a great background. Even the best background would be useless if the characters didn’t sit well within the composition. Mahoutsukai no Yome uses panorama backgrounds and they work so well that it makes me cry.

You can really notice how in Mahoutsukai no Yome utilizes the Art Boards in the actual series itself. Here are few of them from episode 23. These wide panorama pictures with a clear depth-perspective really let the world come to life and tell its own story. Art Board backgrounds help to set the mood and still let characters control the scene whenever they are present.

I really love the dissonance between the first and fourth picture. In the first the light is depicted as calm and natural and shadows are there to mostly help us see the details. Its a landscape painting, natural yet depicting eerily quiet vast field. However the fourth picture is clearly less about realism and more about cinematic impact. In the picture a blazing sun sets into the sea and creates a shadow which overwhelms our character Cartaphilus, who is slowly realizing the depth of his curse and is mentally at the point of breaking. He realizes he has tainted his own hands beyond the point of return.

When we return from the past to the present we see now thousands of years old and insane Cartaphilus again inside his own inner world. It is a world of shadows and darkness. The BG’s of the episode depict his long journey from life of goodhearted yet unlucky young victim (criticized unjustly by ignorant people from the shadows) to the cruel and borderline insane immortal perpetrator we have come to known.

“He who fights with monsters should be careful lest he thereby become a monster. And ifyou gaze long into an abyss, the abyss will also gaze into you.”

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Studio Bamboo has for some time now been one of the more stable digital background art studios. They are relatively small studio, which doesn’t have an outsourcing branch in Korea (like Studio Easter) or in Thailand (like Bihou Inc). Even in Mahoutsukai no Yome they work together with many BG-studios such as Studio Blue (BG department linked to KyoAni), Studio Easter and A1 Pictures Art Department.

They often work with Production I.G, P.A. Works and A1 Pictures, albeit they very rarely are the only BG-studio working on any project due to employing only about 15-20 people. They often work with familiar freelancer art directors such as Higashiji Kazuki (often associated with P.A. Works background department) and veteran art director Takeda Yusuke (SAO, Moribito, Eden of the East etc.) , but they have a build a solid small staff for themselves.

Ps. Sorry for bad quality jpgs.