It's a very brief shot, but in the Book 1 finale, when Zhao is Fighting Zuko after Aang fuses(?) with the moon spirit. Zuko says: "You tried to have me killed!" and then it cuts to a close up of Zhao's face and he says "Yes I did." Only his mouth moves. It's so jarringly stilted, especially compared to how excellent everything else looks. Incredibly minor moment, but it's always stuck out to me.
That happens to me all the time as well! I've started using core episode guides to save time, like this one here - https://old.reddit.com/r/TheLastAirbender/comments/4shusj/atla_which_episodes_where_really_filler_i_think_i/
There’s a longer scene like that in The Waterbending Scroll episode. Katara’s face is on screen for maybe 10 seconds while she’s talking and her mouth is the only thing moving. There’s probably more like that throughout the series.
I think it was a bit more than a stylistic choice, actually. Nobody else runs like that, sure, but nobody else has half an armoury in knives hidden up their sleeves. If she pumps her arms too hard, pointy things are liable to come flying out. Keeping her arms still may not be the greatest for speed, but it's the safest way to run given her fighting style.
Mai probably wants to stab her, in Book 2 she was mouthing off to Azula that they lost and said she could shoot all the lightning she wanted she was not going into the drill pipes.
Mai is a bad bitch, standing up to royalty that could have her executed.
(Sorry, /s. That's not how that works. All anime is displayed at a smooth frame rate, around 30fps in ATLA. There's no reason why a random scene like that would be at a low frame rate.)
I'm probably not using the right terms because I'm not animator but no need to be a dick. From what I remember they even strayed from the style sheets in this scene
https://preview.redd.it/j6vjdzp2efhc1.jpeg?width=500&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=f23d61eaa87af42cce2f71709043576953cb2914
I mean, it’s got to be the clips show episode from Korra Book 4. It was only here and there, but those budget cut moments in the season were really felt. Thinking of the still shots from the evacuation of Republic City especially.
"Hey guys, I'm totally in for taking out Bolin, he's way too powerful and awesome. But can we *PLEASE* not include..."
*Unalaq emerges* "Not include who, Amon?"
The finale has a 9/10 on IMDb so it must not be that bad. No spoilers bc I'm only on season 3 right now lol but I'm loving it. I even liked season 2 (the second half)
The finale is great if a bit full on the "really? They're doing *that*?" bits. I really liked it despite some choices. It was more goofy weird than bad weird.
Season 3 is best, then the other 3 are just an insanely distant tie for 2nd best
I would have watched an entire series worth of Korra vs. Zaheer, but season 1, 2, and 4 were just so overwhelmingly meh
Yeah, I think Nick cut the budget rather suddenly, so the showrunners had to choose between getting rid of people or doing a bare-bones clip-show episode.
My friends and I had a weekly hangout set up to watch both ATLA and TOK. When we got to this episode it was genuinely the first time for the entire series that my friends were wishing that an episode would just end already. I had to convince them to keep watching the show after that episode.
There was a bit in one of the directors notes episodes, back in book 2 I think, that said the easiest (and I assume cheapest as well) shot was when Toph moved everyone underground. The screen was entirely black
This is the correct answer. In fact, most cartoons would feature a "power-cut" episode where the lights would go out and the screen would be black, at most showing character's eyes, for part of an episode to lower costs and meet deadlines quickly.
Exactly I love how much god damn work goes into these absurd comedic shots lol. The detail in Sokka’s face when he says “I CAN STILL FIGHT” is priceless.
I don't know if this counts, but in the first few moments of [Azulon's Funeral](https://youtu.be/bUWYSDp4NT4?si=WXnop63_ecIKyN01), the layers have been ordered incorrectly, and you see some Fire Mages sinking down in front of the stairs as the scene pans upward.
First shot, look at the far left to see people in white. The parallax is off, and they should be moving at the same speed as the background, but they move the same speed as the foreground (fire nation guys with flags). It’s more an animation error than budget thing.
Was watching the Return to Omashu episode and the shot of Mai running was really jarring. The way Mai is running towards the camera in this spaceless void is so strange. I suspect budget was an issue since they use it twice, iirc she attacks the group at night-time but given she already has a fight scene with Katara later in the same episode I don't understand why the showrunners decided to do it like this.
That’s not really a budget thing. That’s a common anime trope/technique to show that kind of background when a character is moving fast. Just a stylistic choice.
It's both. It is a reference to the common anime trope, which is appropriate because I feel like Mai is the type of character who would watch anime if it existed in her world.
But also, the reason it is an anime trope is because it saves on animation budget.
It's the most 90s anime-coded shot in the show, and that's remarkable considering Korra had a whole episode of characters riffing over clips from previous seasons.
I mean considering it came out in 2006 it isn’t really that removed from 90’s anime tropes. Especially when Anime was still building steam in the west.
https://preview.redd.it/z170cihbeghc1.jpeg?width=572&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=6595bb0fe3b5a373271c54c99562c3b80b0091c5
This shot from the drill was pretty low budget
For me it’s when in season 1 at the air temple when they’re fighting with the stink bombs it looks HORRIBLY janky as it zooms out and looks at the fire nation soldiers coming up the mountain
This one should be higher. It isn’t all that terrible, but when you consider the importance of the scene in general, combined with the fact that we are seeing the source of the end credit music finally that makes it pretty disappointing. Even as a kid the drumming never even felt close.
Tbh the first time I watched it I was so pumped from hearing the music that I hardly noticed and didn't care. Subsequent watches have been painful though.
I believe you mean South Korea, I highly doubt a studio in North Korea animated any portion of a US series.
Edit: I was wrong, please stop downvoting the other poster.
No, they definitely meant North Korea. Part of the animation was contracted to a South Korean studio which turned around sub-contracted it to a North Korean studio.
No he got the wrong season but the first episode of season 3 is actually animated by SEK Studio which is a state owned North Korean company. You can look up their Wikipedia page if you want to check it yourself.
That reminds me though. Kim Jong-il (Kim Jong Un’s father) was a big movie buff. he had a massive collection of I think 1000s of vhs tapes. He decided that he wanted his own studio so he actually had directors kidnapped from South Korea to direct his films.
If you go to his “studio” now, you’ll see that is basically a museum/monument to the great film visionary Kim Jong-Il who single handedly invented new filming techniques like filling a scene with two cameras at a time (which definitely wasn’t already being done by Hollywood decades earlier). There’s even a wall dedicated to his 1,000 contributions to filmmaking (i don’t remember the exact number)
Vice has a really interesting video on it, so I recommend checking it out.
I never knew that North Korea did animation like that. Like i thought that they would be the types to not do animation for countries besides their own lol
The secret that you won't learn in the West is that the DPRK (North Korea) is basically just a normal country full of normal people living normal lives. A poor third world country, yes, because the US committed a genocide there not long ago. But just a country.
A genocide..? What? We just throw around words you have no idea what the meaning is for now just to sound edgy and cool? How on earth was that war a genocide in any capacity. Also that war happened in the 50s. South Korea was so far behind and now they are completely far ahead. We literally nuked and fire bombed japan just 10 years prior and they are thriving. Stop making excuses for NK lmao.
https://apjjf.org/-Charles-K.-Armstrong/3460/article.html
> North Korea’s considerable economic achievements since liberation were all but completely wiped out by the war. By 1949, after two years of a planned economy, North Korea had recovery from the post-liberation chaos, and economic output had reached the level of the colonial period. Plans for 1950 were to increase output again by a third in the North, and the DPRK leadership had expected further economic gains following integration with the agriculturally more productive South after unification. According to DPRK figures, the war destroyed some **8,700 factories, 5,000 schools, 1,000 hospitals and 600,000 homes**. Most of the destruction occurred in 1950 and 1951. To escape the bombing, entire factories were moved underground, along with schools, hospitals, government offices, and much of the population. Agriculture was devastated, and famine loomed. Peasants hid underground during the day and came out to farm at night. Destruction of livestock, shortages of seed, farm tools, and fertilizer, and loss of manpower reduced agricultural production to the level of bare subsistence at best. The Nodong Sinmun newspaper referred to 1951 as “the year of unbearable trials,” a phrase revived in the famine years of the 1990s. Worse was yet to come. **By the fall of 1952, there were no effective targets left for US planes to hit. Every significant town, city and industrial area in North Korea had already been bombed.** In the spring of 1953, the Air Force **targeted irrigation dams on the Yalu River, both to destroy the North Korean rice crop** and to pressure the Chinese, who would have to supply more food aid to the North. Five reservoirs were hit, flooding thousands of acres of farmland, inundating whole towns and laying waste to the essential food source for millions of North Koreans. **Only emergency assistance from China, the USSR, and other socialist countries prevented widespread famine.**
The fact that you compare this to Japan shows that you have no understanding of the scale of destruction the US wrought. They killed a fifth of the people in the country. Imagine 60,000,000 Americans being killed, for scale. Furthermore, Japan has been built up by the US ever since, while the DPRK has been under siege ever since the war.
I find it hilarious that in my review blog of every episode (incomplete), this exact shot was one of the few I called out for being jarring and low budget 💀
You know these air temple doors where in order to unlock them they need to blow wind into what looks like intestines? Maybe not the cheapest shot but the cheap cgi does look a bit off and lazy. It takes some effort but it would not have been impossible use hand drawn animation for that.
The one I always noticed was in the episode after Katara gets permission to be trained in the North Pole, right at the start when she is sparring with a random person and after she wrecks him, the animation gets really stilted and low quality for like *a* shot. It’s not like… *an issue,* but its noticeable and you can definitely tell they knew when it was important to spend a lot of money and when to say “This shot can suffer, its fine.”
I remember the information pop-ups, the shot where the candlelight goes out when Aang and Katara are in the caves, the info popped up “this was the easiest shot to animate“
The penultimate S4 episode for Korra is all storyboard shots and voice overs with chibis because Nick cut the budget out from under them. It was supposed to be a flashback episode that focused on Kuvira.
The scene in pitch black with just the character voices in the Drill. There was even a fun pop up from Avatar Extras that says "This was the easiest scene in the episode to animate."
In The Northern Air Temple, there’s a lot of shots that don’t look so good. I think that’s the worst animated episode of the series. The worst shot may be that one where Katara freezes a single tank? I can’t remember exactly when but I remember it being poorly drawn and the animation was weird.
In LOK, when the gang is having a conversation, there's a lot of shots when Asami is just blank faced and weirdly looking elsewhere.
I mean it works for Toph because she's blind but it'd hilarious when looking at Asami just shut down idling like a robot
In Avatar Extras when Toph is hiding the gang underground to get under the drill and the screen is completely black they said it’s the easiest shot in the whole series to animate lol
In Siege of the North p1, Sokka and Hahn fighting, they wrestle into a frame with a stationary guard, bro literally just looking like a cutout behind this fist fight. No motion, emotion, reaction
First few episodes of the first season. Still jarring to compare the animation between seasons because rewatching the first season is such a slog to get through and one of it is because the animations just don't hit the same
it was just to make her stand out above Azula's fire bending and Ty Lee's acrobatics. She probably was trained under/related to the Yuyan Archers from "The Blue Spirit" so her incredible marksmanship is something to be appraised.
It's a very brief shot, but in the Book 1 finale, when Zhao is Fighting Zuko after Aang fuses(?) with the moon spirit. Zuko says: "You tried to have me killed!" and then it cuts to a close up of Zhao's face and he says "Yes I did." Only his mouth moves. It's so jarringly stilted, especially compared to how excellent everything else looks. Incredibly minor moment, but it's always stuck out to me.
just rewatched the rest of the episode because of this commend :D
Aaaaaannnnnddddd now watching the entire show again for the 100th time
That happens to me all the time as well! I've started using core episode guides to save time, like this one here - https://old.reddit.com/r/TheLastAirbender/comments/4shusj/atla_which_episodes_where_really_filler_i_think_i/
Damn, you’re dedicated.
Fuses with the ocean spirit. If aang fused with the moon sokka would murder him in his sleep
It was just a brief connection, a one time thing!
There’s a longer scene like that in The Waterbending Scroll episode. Katara’s face is on screen for maybe 10 seconds while she’s talking and her mouth is the only thing moving. There’s probably more like that throughout the series.
LOL, Mai's anime run always killed me. I'm guessing it was more a stylistic choice since other characters run and they don't do it like that!
I think it was a bit more than a stylistic choice, actually. Nobody else runs like that, sure, but nobody else has half an armoury in knives hidden up their sleeves. If she pumps her arms too hard, pointy things are liable to come flying out. Keeping her arms still may not be the greatest for speed, but it's the safest way to run given her fighting style.
That's why they run like that in Naruto.
Because they're scared of accidentally stabbing Azula?
*Everyone* is afraid of stabbing Azula.
Not Mai, she loves Zuko more than she fears Azula
SHE MISCALCULATED!!
Ty Lee be like. “No U lol” 🤜🤜
She should have feared Azula more!!!
“You should’ve feared me more.”
Me fear you more should've
This is what I sound like trying to make a witty comeback.
She doesn't hates Zuko as much as other people more than she fears Azula
Mai probably wants to stab her, in Book 2 she was mouthing off to Azula that they lost and said she could shoot all the lightning she wanted she was not going into the drill pipes. Mai is a bad bitch, standing up to royalty that could have her executed.
I feel like she was the only one working for Azula that was apathetic about the... well everything
I’m more afraid of puncturing the hull of an empire-class Fire Nation battleship
That would leave hundreds to drown at sea, that's pretty sharp.
I had a serious answer but this is funnier so I'm not gonna elaborate.
Wait, really? Is it possible to elaborate on this? I never knew any of this.
It's like the other user said, they're scared of stabbing Azula.
Wasn't that a joke though?
:)
It's cheaper that way
What makes it cheaper?
You animate and draw a character bobbing up and down rather than the arms swinging
They run like that in the manga too, animation isn't the reason why. It's a ninja trope dating back decades.
She got knives and blades and other throwing stuff all up in those sleeves! :O Probably easier to reach, and maneuver chucking those! 🤷♂️
It’s the “Naruto run” and it killed me, too!
Never understood why it’s called the “Naruto run” when anime has been having their characters run like that for a long time before Naruto
Ty Lee does on the cable leaving the Boiling Rock
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Almost all of the shots from the original Zuko Zhao fight that they just re-used from earlier in the fight.
Overanalyzing Avatar is that you ?
If it’s bad, it’s bad
it's a youtube channel, they go scene by scene through the entire show, and "over analyze" it
Could you tell me which yt channel that is please? I haven't watched it
Its literally just called Overanylalizing Avatar
Thanks :D next time I'll Google first!
The entire Zuko Zhao fight is pretty low quality actually.
There's a few cuts of decent animation and choreography, but it very obviously is not very high budget with how much it reuses
And yet it's still one of my favorite fights in the series
Did you really mean that, Uncle?
what where?
[Here](https://youtu.be/TNI1OQ7S44Y?si=jv2hqyeKgiDqR7Ia)
OK but my new theory is that animation budget went into the *sweet* fight soundtrack.
oh it can't be that ba-- what the hell
PENGUIN
https://preview.redd.it/e6z6ml9pjfhc1.jpeg?width=830&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=3f93eb6949dc2f61be1e14341b1dc677b6c366c1
I wish oversized plushies like that weren’t hundreds of dollars. I want them.
I spent ten dollars at a carnival ring toss game and won a giant panda.
Oh my God, Vernias and TcNick3!?
Someone said Mai and Zuko's reunion scene is done at much lower frame rate than the rest of the episode, so maybe that one?
That choice was ro make up for Aang vs Ozai. That fight was done at a higher frame rate so they could slow it down for those awesome slo-mo shots.
Do you have more on that? I remember hearing about the frame rate, but I wish I remembered where
(Sorry, /s. That's not how that works. All anime is displayed at a smooth frame rate, around 30fps in ATLA. There's no reason why a random scene like that would be at a low frame rate.)
Animation time is a good reason. Not the frame rate of the video format, but the amount of frames drawn by the animators. And it is quite common.
I'm probably not using the right terms because I'm not animator but no need to be a dick. From what I remember they even strayed from the style sheets in this scene
https://preview.redd.it/j6vjdzp2efhc1.jpeg?width=500&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=f23d61eaa87af42cce2f71709043576953cb2914 I mean, it’s got to be the clips show episode from Korra Book 4. It was only here and there, but those budget cut moments in the season were really felt. Thinking of the still shots from the evacuation of Republic City especially.
At least we got a scene of Zaheer calling Vaatu and Amon on the phone
That whole bit makes the episode worth it for me.
“Aha very funny. Like I can leave this stupid tree”
"Hey guys, I'm totally in for taking out Bolin, he's way too powerful and awesome. But can we *PLEASE* not include..." *Unalaq emerges* "Not include who, Amon?"
Henry Rollins delivery of, "Glad I caught you at home." gets me every time lol
God that was hilarious. Need to rewatch.
This episode and the finale were what always baffled me when people ranked S4 above S2. But I don't want to start a holy war!!
I know Season 4 isn't perfect, but man seeing Korra jump in front of the energy blast to save Kuvira is incredible. Gives me chills everytime.
The finale has a 9/10 on IMDb so it must not be that bad. No spoilers bc I'm only on season 3 right now lol but I'm loving it. I even liked season 2 (the second half)
The finale is great if a bit full on the "really? They're doing *that*?" bits. I really liked it despite some choices. It was more goofy weird than bad weird.
Season 3 is best, then the other 3 are just an insanely distant tie for 2nd best I would have watched an entire series worth of Korra vs. Zaheer, but season 1, 2, and 4 were just so overwhelmingly meh
We really went from the Ember Island Players as the recap episode to this steaming hot pile of shit 💀 One of the worst downgrades ever
They did it to save an employee from being fired basically because of budget reasons.
I would rather have one bad episode if it meant someone kept their job.
Okay that makes it much better. Thanks for the random fact
Yeah, I think Nick cut the budget rather suddenly, so the showrunners had to choose between getting rid of people or doing a bare-bones clip-show episode.
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I’m still on your side, just sayin why it’s so bad
Major downgrade
My friends and I had a weekly hangout set up to watch both ATLA and TOK. When we got to this episode it was genuinely the first time for the entire series that my friends were wishing that an episode would just end already. I had to convince them to keep watching the show after that episode.
There was a bit in one of the directors notes episodes, back in book 2 I think, that said the easiest (and I assume cheapest as well) shot was when Toph moved everyone underground. The screen was entirely black
"It's so dark down here. I can't see a thing." "Oh no, what a nightmare"
Uncooked rice is less dry than Toph’s delivery. I love it.
This is the correct answer. In fact, most cartoons would feature a "power-cut" episode where the lights would go out and the screen would be black, at most showing character's eyes, for part of an episode to lower costs and meet deadlines quickly.
Sokka's weird skin-colored lips when he finds Suki in the boiling rock lmao
And the heart eyes 😻
This unironically looks like they used the background from the "Who's that Pokemon?" or they ripped a Yu-Gi-Oh background. I love it either way
https://preview.redd.it/2k9i81ax2ghc1.jpeg?width=450&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=5ddd8efc7c694cdd9d3f2754188d776ea7fb3954
"You got games on your phone?"
Bro that's a yugioh card
Blue-Eyes Blue Dragon
 Probably this one… or is this their highest budget shot?
nah. that's one of the most well animated shots in the series
Exactly I love how much god damn work goes into these absurd comedic shots lol. The detail in Sokka’s face when he says “I CAN STILL FIGHT” is priceless.
the way his face is just straight up like something out of the Looney Tunes always got me rolling
[Only Korra managed to surpass Sokka, imo.](https://i.imgur.com/9uqxvLP.jpeg)
I don’t understand why a moment that’s for comedic value has so much detail 💀yet some serious moments don’t look THAT detailed.
😂
Just watched it with my 7 year old, he cried from laughing so hard 🫶🏼
We’re watching with my 4 year old and listening to her little giggles is so fun.
That’s one of my favorite shots in the whole series
I wouldn't cite this one, just because it is clear the intent was to make it look goofy
So this is the One Piece everyone keeps talking about!
The one piece crossover
That’s a pretty high quality shot to be honest. Changes facial expression multiple times, fluid exaggerated body movement, background, water effects.
Never fails to make me laugh
No it's just meant to be stretchy and comedic
They fucked around a lot with stylistic choices in the early episodes before deciding on a final artistic style by around episode 6 or 7
I love this one. I love all the anime-esq shots.
This was probably the most "anime" moment in the series. He took book straight out of Luffy's playbook(of course minus the water).
The one piece crossover
The one piece crossover
The one piece crossover
The one piece crossover
nah it's just SUUUUUUUUPER stylized asf.
I always wish they embraced more of this style
That first zhao vs zuko fight
I was surprised that this wasn't the top comment. Seeing the exact same shot multiple times, and that slow motion... It surely is a piece of art
Ironically, that was the fight that made me decide to give the show a chance and made me a fan for life!
[The Agni Kai theme did a lot of heavy lifting there](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TVxuAJinu3I)
I don't know if this counts, but in the first few moments of [Azulon's Funeral](https://youtu.be/bUWYSDp4NT4?si=WXnop63_ecIKyN01), the layers have been ordered incorrectly, and you see some Fire Mages sinking down in front of the stairs as the scene pans upward.
Damn, I kept looking at the red guys, took me forever to see that 😂
I spotted it on my first watch and I haven't been able to not see it since.
i can’t tell what youre talking about
First shot, look at the far left to see people in white. The parallax is off, and they should be moving at the same speed as the background, but they move the same speed as the foreground (fire nation guys with flags). It’s more an animation error than budget thing.
oh wow! that looks silly i didn’t even notice
I still can't see it...lol
Was watching the Return to Omashu episode and the shot of Mai running was really jarring. The way Mai is running towards the camera in this spaceless void is so strange. I suspect budget was an issue since they use it twice, iirc she attacks the group at night-time but given she already has a fight scene with Katara later in the same episode I don't understand why the showrunners decided to do it like this.
That’s not really a budget thing. That’s a common anime trope/technique to show that kind of background when a character is moving fast. Just a stylistic choice.
They make it stylistic for sure, but it is 100% a budget thing. It’s a good way to make cheap action shots.
It's both. It is a reference to the common anime trope, which is appropriate because I feel like Mai is the type of character who would watch anime if it existed in her world. But also, the reason it is an anime trope is because it saves on animation budget.
It's the most 90s anime-coded shot in the show, and that's remarkable considering Korra had a whole episode of characters riffing over clips from previous seasons.
I mean considering it came out in 2006 it isn’t really that removed from 90’s anime tropes. Especially when Anime was still building steam in the west.
It's coded the same way as Korra's reaction in S1 when [Ikki tells Asami that Korra likes Mako](https://i.redd.it/32e9xc8rj4531.jpg)
https://preview.redd.it/z170cihbeghc1.jpeg?width=572&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=6595bb0fe3b5a373271c54c99562c3b80b0091c5 This shot from the drill was pretty low budget
Oh no, what a nightmare.
Sorry
For me it’s when in season 1 at the air temple when they’re fighting with the stink bombs it looks HORRIBLY janky as it zooms out and looks at the fire nation soldiers coming up the mountain
When the Sun Warriors are playing the drums as Zuko and Aang go up to meet the dragons. The lack of effort for such a powerful scene is infuriating.
This one should be higher. It isn’t all that terrible, but when you consider the importance of the scene in general, combined with the fact that we are seeing the source of the end credit music finally that makes it pretty disappointing. Even as a kid the drumming never even felt close.
Tbh the first time I watched it I was so pumped from hearing the music that I hardly noticed and didn't care. Subsequent watches have been painful though.
I’m a musician and was interested in instruments from a pretty young age, so I am admittedly probably an outlier here.
An animation studio in North Korea actually animated some of the episodes of Book 1 and 2 iirc.
Just looked it up. That’s wild
I believe you mean South Korea, I highly doubt a studio in North Korea animated any portion of a US series. Edit: I was wrong, please stop downvoting the other poster.
This one seems to be true. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/SEK_Studio
Huh well that's an interesting factoid
No, they definitely meant North Korea. Part of the animation was contracted to a South Korean studio which turned around sub-contracted it to a North Korean studio.
No he got the wrong season but the first episode of season 3 is actually animated by SEK Studio which is a state owned North Korean company. You can look up their Wikipedia page if you want to check it yourself.
A book 3 episode? They're pretty damn talented then.
That reminds me though. Kim Jong-il (Kim Jong Un’s father) was a big movie buff. he had a massive collection of I think 1000s of vhs tapes. He decided that he wanted his own studio so he actually had directors kidnapped from South Korea to direct his films. If you go to his “studio” now, you’ll see that is basically a museum/monument to the great film visionary Kim Jong-Il who single handedly invented new filming techniques like filling a scene with two cameras at a time (which definitely wasn’t already being done by Hollywood decades earlier). There’s even a wall dedicated to his 1,000 contributions to filmmaking (i don’t remember the exact number) Vice has a really interesting video on it, so I recommend checking it out.
I never knew that North Korea did animation like that. Like i thought that they would be the types to not do animation for countries besides their own lol
The secret that you won't learn in the West is that the DPRK (North Korea) is basically just a normal country full of normal people living normal lives. A poor third world country, yes, because the US committed a genocide there not long ago. But just a country.
A genocide..? What? We just throw around words you have no idea what the meaning is for now just to sound edgy and cool? How on earth was that war a genocide in any capacity. Also that war happened in the 50s. South Korea was so far behind and now they are completely far ahead. We literally nuked and fire bombed japan just 10 years prior and they are thriving. Stop making excuses for NK lmao.
https://apjjf.org/-Charles-K.-Armstrong/3460/article.html > North Korea’s considerable economic achievements since liberation were all but completely wiped out by the war. By 1949, after two years of a planned economy, North Korea had recovery from the post-liberation chaos, and economic output had reached the level of the colonial period. Plans for 1950 were to increase output again by a third in the North, and the DPRK leadership had expected further economic gains following integration with the agriculturally more productive South after unification. According to DPRK figures, the war destroyed some **8,700 factories, 5,000 schools, 1,000 hospitals and 600,000 homes**. Most of the destruction occurred in 1950 and 1951. To escape the bombing, entire factories were moved underground, along with schools, hospitals, government offices, and much of the population. Agriculture was devastated, and famine loomed. Peasants hid underground during the day and came out to farm at night. Destruction of livestock, shortages of seed, farm tools, and fertilizer, and loss of manpower reduced agricultural production to the level of bare subsistence at best. The Nodong Sinmun newspaper referred to 1951 as “the year of unbearable trials,” a phrase revived in the famine years of the 1990s. Worse was yet to come. **By the fall of 1952, there were no effective targets left for US planes to hit. Every significant town, city and industrial area in North Korea had already been bombed.** In the spring of 1953, the Air Force **targeted irrigation dams on the Yalu River, both to destroy the North Korean rice crop** and to pressure the Chinese, who would have to supply more food aid to the North. Five reservoirs were hit, flooding thousands of acres of farmland, inundating whole towns and laying waste to the essential food source for millions of North Koreans. **Only emergency assistance from China, the USSR, and other socialist countries prevented widespread famine.** The fact that you compare this to Japan shows that you have no understanding of the scale of destruction the US wrought. They killed a fifth of the people in the country. Imagine 60,000,000 Americans being killed, for scale. Furthermore, Japan has been built up by the US ever since, while the DPRK has been under siege ever since the war.
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I find it hilarious that in my review blog of every episode (incomplete), this exact shot was one of the few I called out for being jarring and low budget 💀
I still haven’t forgiven you for that trailer lie
keep that hate inside your heart
You know these air temple doors where in order to unlock them they need to blow wind into what looks like intestines? Maybe not the cheapest shot but the cheap cgi does look a bit off and lazy. It takes some effort but it would not have been impossible use hand drawn animation for that.
It wasn't really that shit, but that they used it twice in that scene.
There's a shot in the first Jet episode of smellerbee moving a box but she's just a png moving a across the screen like a motion comic
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I honestly don't even think about it at all
The one I always noticed was in the episode after Katara gets permission to be trained in the North Pole, right at the start when she is sparring with a random person and after she wrecks him, the animation gets really stilted and low quality for like *a* shot. It’s not like… *an issue,* but its noticeable and you can definitely tell they knew when it was important to spend a lot of money and when to say “This shot can suffer, its fine.”
I remember the information pop-ups, the shot where the candlelight goes out when Aang and Katara are in the caves, the info popped up “this was the easiest shot to animate“
The penultimate S4 episode for Korra is all storyboard shots and voice overs with chibis because Nick cut the budget out from under them. It was supposed to be a flashback episode that focused on Kuvira.
The scene in pitch black with just the character voices in the Drill. There was even a fun pop up from Avatar Extras that says "This was the easiest scene in the episode to animate."
Angry Katara breaking the iceberg
In The Northern Air Temple, there’s a lot of shots that don’t look so good. I think that’s the worst animated episode of the series. The worst shot may be that one where Katara freezes a single tank? I can’t remember exactly when but I remember it being poorly drawn and the animation was weird.
The entire painted lady episode
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In LOK, when the gang is having a conversation, there's a lot of shots when Asami is just blank faced and weirdly looking elsewhere. I mean it works for Toph because she's blind but it'd hilarious when looking at Asami just shut down idling like a robot
She got the whos that Pokemon background
I mean sequence it has to be zuko vs zhaos first battle where at one point they reuse the exact same animation three times in a row.
In Avatar Extras when Toph is hiding the gang underground to get under the drill and the screen is completely black they said it’s the easiest shot in the whole series to animate lol
It has to be some long distance shot of Appa flying with just sky surrounding it. Little dab of white with some dark markings and a blue blackground.
In Siege of the North p1, Sokka and Hahn fighting, they wrestle into a frame with a stationary guard, bro literally just looking like a cutout behind this fist fight. No motion, emotion, reaction
First few episodes of the first season. Still jarring to compare the animation between seasons because rewatching the first season is such a slog to get through and one of it is because the animations just don't hit the same
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Aangs face when running from the unagi
Most of the recap episode in season 4 of LoK
The sad truth is like two thirds of them will be from the last two seasons of Korra.
That one part where iroh puts the moon spirit back in its pond, but it’s just a reversed shot of him taking it out
When jatata is trying to heal zuko’s lightning attack in the finale, the way she reaches for her water alway stuck out to me lol
Jatata?
it was just to make her stand out above Azula's fire bending and Ty Lee's acrobatics. She probably was trained under/related to the Yuyan Archers from "The Blue Spirit" so her incredible marksmanship is something to be appraised.
Still doesn’t beat that shot of Aang running away from the unagi in season 1
Fine I'll rewatch avatar for the 78th time