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Problems of anime industry-part 1

 There are couple main problems with anime industry. Firstly, anime in-between artists don’t have enough skill for their job. Anime is almost entirely drawn by hand and every single drawning is usually very detailed and requiers a lot of skill and talent from the animator, but suprisingly most of anime studios employ total freelancers as in-between animators. When the professional key animators and top-level director have done their work, the rest is finished by unexpierenced group of people, that are just passionate about anime. The reason why anime studios rely on freelancers is simple- because they don’t have to worry about labor code. Freelancers are independent contractors, that companies can still enforce deadlines while saving money by not providing benefits. In conclusion, a lot of talented and experienced animators are not employed for the in-between animating job, because studios love depending on freelancers, that sometimes can be untalented and can make the animation lose on it’s quality. As Shingo Adachi (famous animator) said, while reffering to the anime industry „The talent shortage is a serious ongoing problem. With nearly 200 animated TV series alone made in Japan each year, there aren’t enough skilled animators to go around”. In my opinion this part of anime industry needs to be modified.


Here are some examples of low-quality frames that got into anime, that now are memes on the internet (probably drawn by in-between artists):











source:

https://www.vox.com/culture/2019/7/2/20677237/anime-industry-japan-artists-pay-labor-abuse-neon-genesis-evangelion-netflix


Comments

  1. englishdiary5 April 2022 at 11:29

    I would never suspect the Japanese of allowing such sub-standard work to be released.

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