That Gundam 00 scene is fixed in the DVD, so not that it matters. Jeez. Sunrise may not be Madhouse, even they're working at like 5 to 6 series at a time. More if you count movies and OVAs in production.
To be fair, it's not an excuse for them either way.
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Originally Posted by Littm
Because someone thiks that animating mecha is harder. Wrong. In works like Clannad, Air, Kanon the key is their feelings and animation. Properly animate their feelnigs, face, behavour - this all takes a lot of money, and who want to argue - please don't talk again about "panoramic view, this doesn't matter, blah-blah..." because real studios who always care about their quality will never do some kinde of things. And
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Actually, it is. Animating 'static' mecha is indeed harder, more time-consuming and expensive, even if it doesn't look it. A staff on G-L once commented that G-L's semi-organic look was thought for it to not only be more expressive in animation, but to make it easier to animate if I'm not mistaken. Same with the choices to reduce the number of lining for the MS in 00 season 2.
Of course, you can say that animating mecha expressions is easier since it's just drawing the same face, but that's about the only thing.
Anyway, this isn't proper anyway. Comparisons with mecha series does not really work for CLANNAD, especially this Tomoya OVA more so than others even from merely an animation standpoint. The value and execution of the scenes are different. You can actually make 'some' comparison for the TV series, but er... not really the OVA. In terms of tone and presentation, it's better to put this in comparison with things like Iroha, TokiKake, etc which also worked on the visual mood and expression.
Anyway, back to CLANNAD.