Hey creative types, how far are you willing to go to make your art as accurate and true to life as possible? Are you willing to jump out of a perfectly operational airplane for it? Because the staff behind the “final” Evangelion movie did just that.
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sn202c018空中落下戦のシーンのため、総監督からのお勧めもあり、担当クリエイター達でスカイダイビングをし、実際の落下を体感、参考映像を収録、
現実味のある画面作りを目指した。「アニメではなくドキュメンタリー感のあるカメラワークにしたい」
— (株)カラー 2号機 (@khara_inc2) May 21, 2021
In a series of tweets posted to the official Studio Khara Twitter account, the company revealed pictures and videos which detailed the staff’s journey to find out how it feels to fall through the air at such a high speed by going skydiving. The jump was at the suggestion of chief director Hideaki Anno. In one scene in the latest Evangelion movie, titled Evangelion: 3.0+1.0: Thrice Upon A Time in case you forgot, characters are engaged in a fight while free-falling towards the ground below them. Not satisfied with creating a scene that felt like just another anime, the staff threw themselves out of an airplane in order to create a scene that felt more like a documentary by taking different sensations into account including inertia, air pressure, and what movements could be done naturally while taking physics into account.
Further into the tweet thread, they posted some comparison art to show the different ideas they had before they got it right. After fourteen takes the artwork was finally approved.
https://twitter.com/khara_inc2/status/1395709166698721282
Evangelion: 3.0+1.0 Thrice Upon a Time has had quite the journey in order to make it into theaters. Honestly, Frodo had an easier trip.
After having its first ten minutes screened around the world in 2019, Studio Khara revealed they would release the movie in June 2020. Then 2020 came around, and we all know what happened at that point. Thus the movie had its premiere date delayed for the first time to January 2021. This also didn’t come to pass, and they delayed the movie one more time to March 2021, at which point it finally made its debut in Japanese theaters.
Luckily for everyone involved, fans turned out in droves to see the movie, despite the fact that it opened in theaters on a Monday in Japan. In fact, the movie pulled in over 800 million yen (over $7 million USD) on its first day and outsold the previous movie in the rebuild series by almost 24%. It would go on to be the number one movie in Japan for four weeks in a row, which is certainly impressive. Not Demon Slayer: Mugen Train impressive, but still a mighty accomplishment nonetheless.
I’ve openly stated before that when I originally watched the Evangelion television series back in my late teens, I wasn’t a fan of what I saw. In fact, I downright hated most of it. With the release of the latest movie, however, I’ve been getting an itch to revisit the series and see if my opinion of it has changed, now that I’ve had more life experiences and a different view of the world. Perhaps now that I’m older and wiser I can understand the characters and their motivations better.
Source: Anime News Network
