Yoshimi Yamagata Aoyagi

August Dormitory Diaries: Kaneko

Added 2021-08-24 03:30:28 +0000 UTC

Hello, it’s Kaneko.

Here’s my dormitory diary entry for August.

Japan has been experiencing some severe weather this month. Typhoons, heavy rain, all that jazz. How are all of you holding up?

I took up some work outside of our company project and it went live the other day. I can’t disclose the name of the show, but most Japanese people know it, even if they’re not familiar with anime. I was only in charge of one cut, so I only got a few seconds of screen time, but that was the first time I’d ever seen my drawings live on TV. I was a bit taken back.

Fresh out of training, I used to only draw rather simple cuts, but recently, I've gotten used to the work and have started to take up heavier cuts.

When we first start the in-between animation process, we look at the timing sheet and any motion indicators drawn by the keyframe artist while we tween, but when there are no motion indicators, the in-between animator has to consider the motion of the action as we tween. That means drawing in full-blown panic mode. At the moment, I'm drawing cuts with various kinds of movement to gain some experience with this. I wanna be able to draw without slowing down on any cut that gets thrown at me! I’ll try my best!

August 20th, 2021