It’s a best-selling manga and well-watched anime, Blue Lock Season 2’s animation has been broadly criticized, and animator Martin Reyes has addressed the complaints.
Blue Lock Season 2 is adapting Chapters 109-151 (the Blue Lock vs Japan U-20 match) and also will conclude the Third Choice Arc from the earlier season. After making followers wait a yr for a second season, viewers have been left dissatisfied.
Nevertheless, the manga itself is extremely in style, so it’s stunning that the anime has turned out this manner; some frames look nice, however different scenes seem like immobile.
Reyes, one of many present’s animators who labored in Season 2 Episode 2, has opened up in regards to the unfair therapy in Studio 8bit. He additionally claimed that the studio eliminated all of the actions and described the animation as a “catastrophe.”
In accordance with a Reddit translation of Reyes’ TikTok, he mentioned, “I labored on the second episode of Blue Lock and I’ll let you know why its animation was so unhealthy. Months in the past I began engaged on the second season of Blue Lock. One wherein I might work not solely on one episode… however slightly 5 episodes.
“I began engaged on the second episode wherein I needed to deal with 20 cuts, mainly animating the scenes from 0… however, curiously, the issues hadn’t began at this level. I’m positive that not solely I, but in addition all of the animators who labored on this episode, didn’t do the job that ended up being .
“Regardless of the low pay and negligible time, we did the perfect we may… mainly, they eradicated all of the motion, some frames or they simply made them in another way.
“However the fault doesn’t lie within the one which got here after me, since they in all probability did all they may with the little time they’d. These issues, similar to in JJK up to now or within the overwhelming majority of animes, are a results of the manufacturing committee of sure animes that take tasks merely fascinated about the cash and never the situation of its staff.
“And it’s due to this that I didn’t work on some other episode of Blue Lock. As soon as I completed engaged on the second episode I made a decision to get out and similar to I assumed the ultimate consequence ended up being a catastrophe. This made me really feel like it is a job that I’m not proud to add. I received permission to publish one in every of my 22 cuts.”
Blue Lock Season 2 will air 14 episodes, with 4 of them already being launched (as of November 1, 2024). So, it’s most unlikely the studio will enhance the animation mid-season.
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