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kViN 🌈🕒

27 Jun, 6 tweets, 2 min read

I mentioned that Chainsaw Man's trailer would be a cool pre-animated affair, not as a smart deduction, but because I'd been told so (the pre-animated part, coolness was a given). Now it's out and wow it is! The separate staff's in the damn vid! Multiple animators mentioned it!

As far as I can tell, the reason people made such a big deal out of it was that they're upset about the Shingeki S4 situation, which is funny since the most famous modern instance of pre-animated non-teasers was Imai preemptively boarding & animating PVs for its previous seasons

This all stems from people not realizing that pre-animated simply means that it wasn't organically edited out of footage they'd normally finished, which is to say that the team went out of their way to create something fancy for promotion. That is... normal, common for big titles

It can come in the form of a teaser that won't be used in the title proper (though bits of those get repurposed sometimes because it's a shame to waste) or be composed of scenes from the actual thing that simply got prioritized to make that nice PV. Again, nothing inherently bad

The one thing that sucks is that you can't get a good read out of the state of the production & expected quality out of them - all the infamous instances are situations where there's a crazy quality gap between the two products, which made people assume it's always bad

In CSM's case, it's a teaser, but the team that made it is essentially the same that will produce the show. They really are this good, so I don't think it should be misleading, within reason since a teaser and a TV show are different beasts

CSM cavemen you can calm down

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