The Rise and FALL of STUDIO 4℃
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- Опубліковано 17 чер 2024
- Revised and expanded from 4cember this is the full history of anime company studio 4c from Katsuhiro Otomo to Eiko Tanaka. Warning Flashing Images early on, more info in the timecodes.
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Intro 00:00
Memories 00:43
Epilepsy Warning 03:04
Warning End 03:24
Spriggan 16:16
Princess Arete 28:07
Animatrix 40:27
4c and Video Games 56:47
4c and TV Anime 58:54
Mind Game 1:00:09
Tekkonkinkreet 1:09:37
4c and Music Videos 1:20:14
Genius Party 1:21:54
DMC 1:35:06
First Squad 1:43:26
Warner and 4c 1:49:38
Koji Morimoto's Finale 2:00:44
BERSERK 2:01:48
HARMONY 2:16:52
MTFK 2:30:14
Children of the Sea 2:38:06
Chimney Town 2:50:41
Conclusion 2:57:40
OUTRO 2:58:58
#studio4c - Фільми й анімація
SOURCES
docs.google.com/document/d/17rat5qX4c0zbeIfNmsFVi1fShfn7pi_jtwHEY0_2iwY/edit?usp=sharing
Warning Flashing Images early on.
Music
Sign II - Susumu Hirasawa - Berserk (PS2)
LOST
Shin Megami Tensei IV OST - Battle B2
Chris Vrenna - Take the Pill [Enter the Matrix OST]
Sonic CD - Palmtree Panic
Footage from: Anime Art Book - Memories (Cannon Fodder Storyboards)
Katsuhiro Otomo’s Memories The Collection #KatsuhiroOtomo #Memories #QuickLook
Hey, what's the song played at 16:33? I went through the list of music but still could not find and it's stuck in my head.
@@puppycatoutlaw Shin Megami Tensei IV OST - Battle B2 , i put the wrong name for the clip
@@Stevem Oh, thanks.
So “Tweeny Witches” was the precursor for “Little Witch Academia”
@@Ash2theB shows about female witch academies or books on the subject are pretty oversatuarated, even in england with stuff like worst witch
I'm an animation student. On the first lecture I had with one of my teachers, he made us watch Tekkonkinkreet, and then it's making of, because he wanted to show us how cool animation could look, and how horrible it could be as a workplace environment ..
I still wish 4C would've been able to continue doing Berserk because I really thought they put it all together in that 3rd movie it was horrifically beautiful
wasnt in the cards
Everyone crapped on it &whined about the 3D.. lol.. it's true we really don't know what we got till it's gone
@@o-wolf I can't believe people complained about the 3D in the movies. It's fucking berserk. Do they really expect any studio to animate hundreds of soldiers all fighting their own battles in 2D? I really hope that the memorial edition of the movies does well, so then maybe studio4C will continue the adaptation. The movies were absolutely fantastic visually, the only things I didn't like was the pacing and cut scenes.
@@deepfriedcelt I felt like the pacing/deleted scenes worked for movie pacing.. if u werent a fan u didn't miss MUCH.. if you're already a fan u knew what u missed &weren't lost
We were spoilt really.. the 100 man slayer scene was EPIC.. guts v bazuso EPIC.. the eclipse.. JFC !
There were even some major improvements like Guts assassination run.. I doubt they'll ever come around after how the last one was received but we can live in hope
@@o-wolf according to whether the movies raised enough to continue even with the cgi criticism.
The ones who screwed up were young animal, the editorial of berserk since they did not want to continue with the animations and in 2016 they wanted to continue them again, but as the 4c studio was busy they could not take it and what we already know happened, I hope now if they give us the adaptation what they had planned to give us from the beginning with 4C
Memories is still one of the most incredible anime of all time. The first segment in particular is perfect.
magnetic rose is very cool
I watched it recently on some random site it just happened to be on, and I was surprised how good it was. Still resonates with me and really personified the vibe I love the most from Anime.
The studio certainly made an impression on the industry, it was nice to go back and get an overview of it
I think the reason why the 3D backgrounds in 4℃ productions usually work so well, is in their older titles they are textured over with hand-painted art or are traditional art in a 3D space. This helps it blend in better with the 2D art or at least contrast it in a positive way.
Studio Trigger accomplished the same thing in Kill La Kills first episode where they have a giant zoom out of the school, it's 3D but using Pablos gouache art as both texture and background.
I just watched children of the sea, just thinking about the amount of work that went into it and meshing it together into something this beautiful is terrifying. I hope the animation staff is fairly treated but I still want movies like this to keep being made. Keep it up studio 4c!
Yeah I wish children of the sea could have made more money for the studio
Literally my favorite animation studio house in Japan. I've watched Tekkon Kintreet in high school when it first came out back in '06 or '07. Literally one of the best.
i watched berserk just the movies, and it leaves a huge impact especially the music, everrything about it was incredible to me
Okay but did you continue the franchise
I hope u continued with the manga
@@Stevem lol can’t they just like it for what it is
The music is unforgettable
@@junieeeeNo, the movies are not the real Berserk experience. I would say the 90s version is better at communicating the mood
Awesome, 3 hours can be scary at first, but the timestamps really are helpful!
Great work, Steve!
dont feel like you have to watch all at once and if youve seen prior videos you can pass on to the new sections !
@@Stevem Good plan
Toujin might have a bit of popularity due to Tatsuyuki Tanaka having an extremely popular bookset titled, "Cannabis Works, 1 and 2," among his big name film credits as well as being an iconic and incredible animator... I actually found out about him before knowing about genius party through finding his books in multiple friend's collections..
Subtitles are a bit scuffed its like 26k words so it will take some time to make them into something, wish me luck
As someone that relies on subtitles, I wish you all of the luck
@@AbrahamLure the auto captions might be okay but i'll try and do a bit more on the subs tomorrow i basically shoved in all of my scripts but theres going to be differences
There's an animation 4C did I think called Kung Fu Love, as part of a collection called Amazing Nuts. It was animated to Koda Kumi's song Twinkle and I remember loving that short animation a lot back in highschool. Still something I think back to fondly. It was colorful and fun and refreshing at the time.
Wonderful retrospective video, man. And was pleased to see Puparia referenced as well. The Archipel documentary on that is fantastic. ...I'll sub lol.
Hello everyone hope you enjoyed 4cember and this super video version with, this video is in copyright hell and im too tired to fight it, so i cant make anything off it so any support would be much appreciated i need to go lay down for a long time thank you for watching! www.patreon.com/stevemmmmm
Really happy for Studio4Ccember turned out great. Thanks for the effort you put in.
Good work on your project with 4C. I watched all your material in relation to this compendium and seriously appreciate the effort thats put in. Keep on keeping on Boss
3 hours of great content, absolutely insane! Really appreciate all the hard work!
I started binging the other videos first and skipping over the sections I watched already in this one was really satisfying.
I had your december videos in my watch later playlist without having clicked on them cause I was overwhelmed with how many you kept posting, but I was like let’s go through them today alongside some other of your older longer videos like vampire hunter and lupin and watched them all in an evening. really enjoyable videos, great editing too. I could barely tell time was passing, lots of interesting information in them etc, idk what else to say, hope you find success with what you’re doing.
Really nice video, appreciate all the effort put into documenting this !
This documentaries are so well made it feels wrong to be able to watch them for free. I can't support you on Patreon, but I'll be sure to keep engaging with your work. Great job.
I appreciate the comment, it's no problem if you can't support yourself, but I always appreciate a comment and sharing with friends, it really helps
great video and thanks for making it! watched it straight through with an intermission for a grocery store run. I've seen and enjoyed a number of these and never knew they were from the same studio. Tekkonkinkreet being one of my top fav animated films and anime ever
This is an incredible piece of work. Well done and congratulations 👏!♡
Literally masterminded as like how art expression becomes complex industry...
Fantastic retrospective, I appreciate the effort to really dig into production history and acknowledge the key animators and cg staff on particular shots as well as directors, and I learned a lot of new anecdotes about some of my favourite films. It was amazing seeing the backgrounds of Otomo's Cannon Fodder all laid out and taped together, I had wondered a lot about that. Moreover you've done a great job of integrating the contextualising information with artistic criticism. It's really good to have an anime video essayist who is immersed in the sakuga discourse and can allude to concepts like animetism, and I'm very excited to see what you have to say about Anno!
Thanks for a 3 hour video milord. Must have been hard af to make. Hope your hand situation is fine now.
While the hand is improving I would say it's 100 percent
Impressive Video collection! Thank you for posting it.
Funny I saw Memories a few days ago. it absolutely blew my mind
Glad people are still seeking it out :)
check out their other stuff
Cannot image all the research done for these videos.
Keep up the great work.
The uploads have been coming fast and furious! And the quality is so good! I don't have time to watch everything, but I just wanted to say that I notice (and I'm sure others have too), that you're creating work like a crazy person. Much love and respect and I wish I had that kind of energy. Cheers and Happy New Year! :)
Well that period is over now haha since 4cember is over it's not a healthy pace
Tq for your hard work putting together this video, i was also was inspired by Studio4C, Koji Morimoto and especially Masaaki Yuasa, hopefully things will get better for the worker in 4C. My dream wanting to work in 4c slowly dissolved after knowing the true conditions working as manga/animator in Japan but they're the one who inspired me alot to draw everyday, tq again
This is my first video I am seeing from you and I already love your video style and thumbnails. 🔥
It'll be interesting to see how the Spriggan adaptation looks against the 4C movie. Awesome video!
Finally, I had time to end the video, it is really cool c:, thanks for this great content
Incredible video man great work
This video is absolutely amazing, subbed immediately.
Thank you for this new years gift! I'm enjoying learning about the world of animation studios💫
glad you enjoyed
So glad I've found out about your channel
I appreciate the work u put into these vids. Been a fan for a while man. Good stuff. And [insert another validation inducing sentence]
Great video I never knew about this thank you for posting this 🙏
Thank you for watching
I really liked this video and was surprised with how much information you were able to fit in *and* make it all flow naturally! I was kind of hoping Amazing Nuts would have made an appearance, but this video is long enough as it is, and I don't know how much could really have been said about it, other than Kung Fu Love was apparently supposed to be a full series, but was reduced to a 10 minute short that ended up being used for a Kumi Koda music video. Keep up the good work! :D
If there's anything missed it's because I was too tired
Thank you for making this 🙏💕
Impressive video here, thanks!
examinations of studios like this make me love drawing so much more. the scenes running in the narrow streets 'jackie chan of animation', I'm not an animator (yet) but drawing a 2d image, playing with movement and presence on the page is so so satisfying.
I had taken a step by from the animation world for some time now. But after seeing these series of videos and then this one , I got a few things to check out. Great stuff~
Alrighty enjoy
Damn.. Love the style on those Artist insert cutaways.. sketchbook with a splash of colour.... Even cycling those 2 frames... the crayon textures on the names. Great doc. cheers, mate. Just what i needed!
glad you enjoyed my drawings and the work !
this is really good and informative, thanks
Amazing video👌🏽👌🏽
Hey i dig this long edit, great work.
thank you! theres some new chapters in there too !
Great work!!
Thank you for the hard work. Enjoying your videos. I'm a happy new sub 😊
thank you for coming!!!
your sources pages are insane dude
I just discovered this channel today, the video i watched was 'The SATOSHI KON PROBLEM' which i thoroughly enjoyed. Im really looking forward to seeing some more long-formatted content from you, it's really cool😆❤
hope you enjoy whats coming next!
The censoring of one of the Wachowski's deadname when referring to interview content was appreciated!
I watched Animatrix this year and was shocked at how good it was. For some reason I always assumed it was some knock off cash grab, but it was almost the exact opposite.
Love you videos bro
i clicked this video with the intention to just watch a few minutes. In the end i ended up watching most of it. Some stuff got skipped, but i must've watched some 80-85% of the video without break. it was nice to learn about this studio and recognise some works i watched before. Heck, it was nice to discover new works i would like to watch later
thanks for watching! ahha i didnt expect people to watch all at once since its a lot but if you ever feel like checking the rest i chaptered it all:)))
I really liked Spriggan. I used to own it and I have no idea where it is now.
I heard that Studio 4°C is still trying to get the green light on the Black Swordsman arc forward to this day.
I have playlist of their work on Utada album. And I also really enjoy Animatrix and I really did some digging into them after watching their work on Utada album after realizing the styles were basically the same. I really enjoy their work and style. I seem to like to follow the animators coming out Ghibli / Madhouse / Bones / Gainax and those worked with them.
a lot of talent went through those companies
Damn the theme playing in the spriggan section is awesome
Good vid dude. Hope Anno video is next!
should be
Amazing video
thank you!
Thank U. Pure excellence
I can’t imagine the amount of work you guys put in to provide the shear quantity and quality of content. Bravo!
just the one guy heehhe
@@Stevem wow, channels of this quality typically have an additional editor or something. I’m impressed! Do you have a degree in art, writing, or journalism? If so, how much of that education do you think contributed to your capability to produce this kind of content?
@@pkre707 just a ba in illustration but i learnt video editing seperately
This is Epic 💥💥💥
Deserves way more views.
And here I was thinking that the only things Studio 4^C ever made were the 2011 ThunderCats series and that anime fight scene from that one episode of Gumball.
Oh me from 2 minutes and four seconds ago, you were such a naïve summer child.
damn i dont have a studio could survive this long on two projects ahahha
Really now … this is gonna be good
Instant subscribe
i wish they made more anime cuz their own animation and art style just so clean and beautiful
YES!!! I was so very hopeful you'd release a full size video on this studio's downfall. Thank you so so so much. Will be watching this one intently.
Have loved 4°c since Ken Ishii's music video, found on sputnik7's website (welllll didn't know it was 4°c at the time). Then Spriggan & Sweat Punch etc, but absolutely LOVED Tekkon Kinkreet, hope they can continue to produce such amazing pieces. (And you know, not shaft their staff completely in the process?)
Favorite 4c production is either Spriggan or Memories. Big fan of the first short in Memories (RIP Satoshi Kon)
magnetic rose is legit
Firstly, Not sure if you read these but this is a wonderful documentary!
Would like to suggest a separate deep dive on Studio 4c’s “Amazing Nuts!” shorts. Specifically daisuke Nakayama’s short, “Global Astroliner” and it’s influence on his other short “U.G.A.T.”. The shorts were really cool additions and had inclusions of the hiphop/dance house/j-pop collective, M-Flo heading its soundtrack. Its a style really reminiscent of Jamie Hewlett’s art-style with a bit of an Eastern flair. I think his shorts have probably the best art style in the game but his stuff never really went anywhere independently. I think it may be something worth exploring if you’re interested because as much as id love to, I dont really have much means to compile and publish information myself currently 😅 still worth a view because the shorts and Daisuke Nakayama’s concept designs are INCREDIBLE i promise!
I'm not huge on anime but Mind Game opened me up to it, sorta set the bar too high too lol.
The studio in my favorite !😎💯👏👏
I was watching genius party for the first time and had the mindset to expect anything really, but the zombie kids short still managed to completely floor me when I realized they were speaking swedish (without knowing how to speak it no less)
Huh I didn't know that
awesome
El arte y las ideas de estos grandes artistas no tiene límites
The Berserk movies are great....if you've already seen the 1997 show or read the manga. To me it was like a grand recap.
MFKZ was my favorite anime film with african american and hispanic gangsters, it felt like GTA and Gorillaz put together
Totally agree with your take on MFKZ. Amazing animation/art production although the story and characters were severely lacking and hollow.
Actually the Spriggan movie was very well received by the fans of the manga. Keep in mind that it was the adaptation of a later chapter when the story and the style were already much more refined (i guess that Kojima read it during the early '90 all things considered) compared to the beginning. Aside from the Instanbul part (added to extend the length of the story) it's extremely faithful to the Noah chapter of the manga, going as far as recreating a lot of scenes perfectly. It leaves off various thing that would have needed too much explanations of the setting, but it's perfectly understandable why they did that. They also incorporated a lot of later development not included in the original chapter (like Ominae origin) which benefited a lot the characterization of the main character.The Netflix adaptation by comparison will start from the beginning of the manga, meaning that it may be disappointing for those who only watched the movie and it's also no guaranteed to go on until it reach the really good stuff.
no werewolf though :(
im a huge fan, i watch studio 4c since i was 6, im 26 now
my first animation was noiseman insecto sound
dude your dubbing in of the correct words with that ancient text to speech actually shocked my focus on what you were talking about, just dub it in your real voice I'd prefer an audio jumpcut to a TTS jumpscare lol
Is there anything similar to Michiko & Hatchin? It has that Jet Set Radio style vibe which I love.
Try Cowboy Bebop, Great Pretender and Black Lagoon. Oh, and especially check out Dead Leaves.
@@OneStepToDeath420 Just watched the the beginning of Dead Leaves. Tripped out, with a man with a TV for a head, and looks very interesting, thnx.
@@OneStepToDeath420 check out sayo Yamamotos others works , or tv directorial eps
@@OneStepToDeath420 Black Lagoon. 👍👍
I love mind game and tekkonkinkreet.
The movie trilogy was actually my first actual exposure to the Berserk story. I have since collected the entire comic series haha.
Magnetic Rose is a masterpiece
This sure is a journey.
There can’t be a rise and fall if no one knows who you are
My favourite 4c short was the full sequence of Kung Fu Love , from the Amazing Nuts Anthology.
If you can make people feel good the world can change!!!!
So Koji Morimoto fucks, to the point he made it into a quote applicable to the rest of everyone else lives.
What a chad and considerate lover.
Edit: oh yeah forgot, my all time favorite 4C production, man i don't know Tekkonkinkreet is the one that made appreciate anime as something more than just cartoons, but Genius Party and Beyond were the ones that made love anime, but i think i like Genius Party more for the variety, but Tekkon is so damn good too tho! I think Tekkon it is, that's my all time favorite 4C production.
te amo Stevem
For some reasons all the title cards for harmony are written as html tags(
I only knew Studio 4C because of the works they did for Warner Bros Animation such as two of the six segments from Batman Gotham Knight, Justice League The Flashpoint Paradox, Thundercats, Green Latern Emerald Knights and the shorts from Tansformers Animated.
The movies were my first exposure to Berserk, as well as a friend I showed it to. I actually try to show people those movies as an introduction to the series. Why? It does omit some pretty important stuff, but ultimately it only has one encounter with Zodd and a horror sequence involving Void and Griffith to foreshadow the eclipse. Wyald is a neat fight, but I honestly think it's an unnecessary mini-arc that spoils the eclipse, they only really needed Zodd, everything else wasn't necessary.
But the really important reason? The score. Shiro Sagisu absolutely nails it. I consider Blood and Guts to be the true "theme" of Berserk. Some of the fight scenes hit so hard because of how well they use the score. Plus, the dub cast is actually pretty great and I find it hard to imagine someone else as Guts besides Marc Diraison.
I think a great first exposure would be the Memorial Edition not the movies, is only 12 episodes but adds many scenes missing in the trilogy and improves animation overall
The trilogy was my first exposure as well, afterwards I watched 97 anime, now I am on par with the manga
If you are a gamer and Mousou fan the game can be a good first exposure as well
I'm actually surprised the game adapts Ganishka, even Wyald that has no other adaption in media besides the manga
I find the manga to be the best of course, but sometimes 97 anime ommits to much as well, not a single Skull Knight scene is almost unforgivable for me.
Ever thought of doing videos on "Studio Chizu"?
I recommend using a hard limiter or an automatic noise reduction filter and set the decibel to the empty noise of where ever you record to add better audio quality and clear out the fuzziness in the audio. Regardless I really like your videos and commentary
the fuzziness came more so from technical problems more than anything else, tech isnt working as it was sadly
@@Stevem maybe? I mean I don't know your set up at all I found you a few days ago and started going through your stuff newest to oldest. From what I hear your audio quality is crystal clear it's just also picking the common static form the recording hardware itself. And I a hard limiter or audio noise reduction filter should clear that out without compromising the quality... but again I don't know anything about your recording process/rendering
@@Stevem oh and I meant the guy who unsubbed had a weak attention span... because who complains over good long content??? Sorry if my grammar is a bit off I'm kinds buzzed
@@BiblicallyAccurateAngelo its hardware issues, it's working a bit better now, hard limiter wouldnt fix it. Im not huge on noise reduction either in how it makes the audio sound, some of the worst effective parts probs already had some added here im hoping it will be in a better place next time
@@Stevem it doesn't take away from the video one bit!! It's amazing content and I enjoyed listening to it while I passout XD. Like I mentioned I'm not super sure what specific room/software/hardware you use. You say it's an issue and I agree. I just wanted to point out a couple possible solutions... constructive criticism thats like... actually helpful? There's lots of ways to get rid of it I just threw a couple quick and easy usual fixes :3