@verita84 Season 1 looked sensational, Season 2 was a big downgrade, but hardly all that bad in the grand scheme of things. Season 3 is an atrocity.

@ChristiJunior @verita84 The first season was animated by Madhouse, while the second and third seasons were produced by J.C.Staff.

Madhouse's resume is legendary (pic related).

While the best anime J.C.Staff ever made was Excel Saga, which isn't known for its animation quality, and was almost certainly a fluke in every way.
> The lyrics for the opening theme Love (Loyalty) (｢愛(忠誠心)｣, Ai (Chūseishin)) were written "on the train, five minutes before the deadline" - director Shinichi Watanabe.

@coded_artist @verita84 >Overlord

I'll need an explanation for happened during Season 3 tho, specifically the Kazte Plains massacre.

@ChristiJunior @verita84 I only watched season 1 so I can't say for certain.
I watched a clip, and it looks like a lot of CG, experimenting I hope?

I really don't understand how every studio known to man manages to screw up the frame rate of 3D animation.

This shit was already figured out decades ago.
ReBoot first aired circa 1994.

Homos will defend this shit saying it's hard to make it look smooth when combined with traditional animation, but Planetes (2003) had 3D models for Earth and a space station, and it slowly, and SMOOTHLY rotated.

These days, even full 3D shows have stutters, from the small screen such as Kemono Friends, to the big screen like Batman Ninja.

@coded_artist @ChristiJunior @verita84 i cant put my finger on why 3d cg looks so off in anime
Is it because it is rendered at a higher framerate than the 2d stuff making it look too fluid?

@Vidmastereon @coded_artist @ChristiJunior @verita84 no, it looks shit because they never bother to try to make it look good they employ it to cut corners.

and when they do that, the animation of the 3D dudes is choppy like someone insane decided to "animate" using powerpoint.

I could be off-base, but to me, when something is given the effect of appearing to be three dimensional, it looks far far worse when it isn't fluid.

Anime I've watched from the 2000's that would use 3DCG as a gimmick, or even to save money, still usually had them move fluidly. And if they didn't, they did not stay on screen for too long because it looks bad.

It's fucking bizarre. It's not just Overlord that did this, there are a bunch of anime in the last 10 years that do this and no I do not buy the excuse that it is "cinematic" and meant to align with the older traditional 2D when they did not fucking use to do that before.