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Bauwerks
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Writes for software companies, and sometimes the VFX/animation industries. Also an amateur animator and hobbyist photographer in my free time.

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Tags: #art / #animation / #photography
I don't have the Aladdin art book (did they make an art book?), but I do have Mulan, and here are production stills from that art book compared to this 35mm/blu-ray comparison. This book was published in 1998. Pic 4 is the back cover, you literally don't even need to open the book to compare these!
December 1, 2025 at 12:28 AM
Disney's had a (deserved) bad reputation for restoring their films with oversaturated colors for 20+ years, but that doesn't mean vivid colors were verboten, as these production stills show (also from the Lion King art book, again from 1994). Which version do you think these more closely resemble?
December 1, 2025 at 12:28 AM
Am I the only person w/ a copy of the Lion King art book from 1994 — or at least the only person with it to bother looking at the production stills in the book for comparison? (pics 1–2 from Ani O article/post, pics 3–4 from The Art of The Lion King)

animationobsessive.substack.com/p/the-toy-st...
December 1, 2025 at 12:28 AM
It's not much more detail, but Holmes Chan (who is HK-based) mentions some tidbits here: sg.news.yahoo.com/hong-kong-be...
November 29, 2025 at 4:22 PM
I was just thinking the other day about getting back to my Shin-Chan backlog — between this thread and a Spoon & Tamago post about a Nara art teacher who made Shinnosuke leaf art, I'm taking these as signs telling me what to watch this morning.

spoon-tamago.com/hamacream-fa...
November 27, 2025 at 3:44 PM
If you've ever watched the last episode of Golden Boy, you don't even have to know about the animation industry to tell that these depressing, decrepit drawings of animators collapsed at their desks are barely an exaggeration.

(Pic 1 from vgdensetsu.net/riekokodama9/, pics 2–4 from Golden Boy ep 6)
November 24, 2025 at 5:35 PM
No, it went under my radar, too! I'd be lying if I said it doesn't remind me a certain Japanese cartoon that a certain famous director worked on, but since I haven't watched that show either, this is a good excuse for me to put both of these in my queue and see how they stack up.
November 20, 2025 at 4:30 PM
November 19, 2025 at 7:09 PM
Come to think of it, the day I went up the Peak was on a relatively cooler day from an otherwise hot and humid week. I took so many photos on my phone on the bus ride up and down the hill, but lost many of them from a corrupted transfer. 😭
November 18, 2025 at 4:27 PM
The 25th anniversary cover isn't orange, but is clearer and shows the CRT more prominently. I couldn't choose, so I'm including both.
November 17, 2025 at 11:35 PM
November 17, 2025 at 11:35 PM
I can't tell if I'm picking up on an extremely geeky punctuation joke or if I'm thinking too hard about this, but I'll take my chances: you're making an is-to-as-to joke, right?

Army Men : Sarge's Heroes :: Shin Megami Tensei : Persona

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November 17, 2025 at 5:20 PM
Reconstituting myself a bit to say that I can sort of see the resemblance with some Japanese vending machines, but not all.

Back to the pruning...
November 16, 2025 at 3:14 PM
Enjoying this cold, rainy Sunday morning bundled up, eating a hot breakfast and drinking a big mug of tea, and contemplating this post as I wither into a tiny prune. 🫠
November 16, 2025 at 3:14 PM
November 15, 2025 at 9:49 PM
I thought I'd seen that one before! Was the one on the right in this photo scanned in high-res too?
November 15, 2025 at 5:41 PM
The feeling of joy seeing old news I missed about Tatsuyuki Tanaka working on a new animation, quickly soured by seeing Tanaka talk about using web3 bullshit to make it. 😔

www.animenewsnetwork.com/press-releas...
November 15, 2025 at 4:14 PM
Looks a bit like Yoshinori Kanada's style? Not sure if he animated or designed this one.
November 15, 2025 at 4:03 PM
I only bought a couple issues of Hulk back when #400 came out, so I started reading more back issues for Keown's art. I'm laughing at this part of issue 369 where David and Keown answer the burning question "What if the unstoppable force gave the immovable object a massive titty twister?"
November 14, 2025 at 4:27 AM
You can acknowledge China's increase in renewable energy infrastructure without handing it to them — just saying.
November 14, 2025 at 3:00 AM
*Stares in Uyghur, Tibetan, Hong Konger, Taiwanese, etc.*
November 14, 2025 at 3:00 AM
Also note the differing sleeve lengths before and during the rotoscoped part.
November 12, 2025 at 6:52 PM
I know this shot in between shows the shirt is collared, but that's still a very different-fitting shirt than what's animated in the rotoscoped part.
November 12, 2025 at 6:38 PM
A lot of the quotes and comments bring up the rotoscoping, but I wonder how many of them are only looking at how the character moves, instead of the more telling giveaways like a dude with frail-looking arms and v-shaped chest in a t-shirt suddenly becomes normally-proportioned in a button-down.
November 12, 2025 at 6:35 PM
I think I've seen a video of him cover another HKer-owned place in Manchester a year or two ago. Sadly as I was scrolling through his Videos page to find it, I saw this...🤢
November 12, 2025 at 4:37 PM