I think I also read or heard somewhere that Ghibli's incredible attention to detail with animating delicious looking food was in part influenced by Tom and Jerry's attention to detail in animating delicious looking food.
...I think I can blame those cartoons for me trying mustard on almost everything at least once, sweets aside. They always made the scenes doling out mustard with a knife instead of a squeeze bottle as kind of lost art, and not just a modern convience that had yet to be invented at the time.
I love that in the early 90's everybody thought Anno was this mysterious, deeply disturbed and tortured genius who was constantly questioning reality with his art.
Now we know he's just a silly little guy who loved Ultraman, Kamen Rider, and Tom and Jerry.
It makes sense, Eva, Eva makes sense now. All of it, every cel, we've cracked the code people, we can head home, kiss your partners and hug your children, we've done it.
My favorite part of Evangelion is when the Lance of Longinus gets thrown back at Asuka, pierces her EVA’s AT field, turns into a big hand and smacks her on the head. And she goes “yeeOOOWWwwww!!!” really loud. LOL!!
yeah it’s kinda wild actually, Tom & Jerry is a huge source of memes & references on the Japanese internet, it’s like Japanese shitposters’ Spongebob lmao
one of the fun things about using the internet in 2 languages is that it’s still all of the exact same guys, the only difference is accounts like “Remember The ‘90s/‘00s?” are named like “We Won’t Forget The Heisei Era”
Tho golden age at MGM when Tex Avery (Droopy, etc) and Hanna-Barbera (Tom and Jerry) were trying to constantly one up each other is one of the great periods of American Animation. Tex’s travel log cartoons were my favorite - example the house of tomorrow. https://youtu.be/AwWb-JongQo?si=24PmdsODCE6dG_ya
Yup. I studied cinema with a focus on animation. Wrote my undergraduate thesis about film theory in regards to the work of the great Norman McLaren. https://youtu.be/0r2COvWPO4Y?si=w6JZ9UHcLUGUgVzD
This some of his direct animation - meaning drawn directly into celluloid. Skipping the camera entirely and going right to the projector. Pretty astounding stuff.
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Now we know he's just a silly little guy who loved Ultraman, Kamen Rider, and Tom and Jerry.
You’re not kidding!