How Not To Make An Anime (What Went Wrong With Crunchyroll's EX-ARM) | Animator Spotlight

Canipa discusses the many things that went wrong with the Crunchyroll Original Series EX-ARM, and how they basically demonstrate exactly how not to make an anime.

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Chapters:
00:00 - Chapter 0 - Introducing EX-ARM
02:24 - Chapter 1 - The Director
04:12 - Chapter 2 - Motion-Capture
06:30 - Chapter 3 - The Animation Studio
10:23 - Chapter 4 - Compositing
12:10 - Chapter 5 - The Worst Anime of All Time

Sources and Further Reading:

Crunchyroll Expo Panel Summary - https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/interview/2020-09-08/ex-arm-director-yoshikatsu-kimura-and-voice-actor-soma-saito/.163582
Crunchyroll interview with Yoshikatsu Kimura - https://www.crunchyroll.com/en-gb/anime-feature/2020/09/18/interview-ex-arms-directer-on-bringing-his-live-action-experience-to-anime
What the Heck Happened to Berserk? (by me) - https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/feature/2017-07-07/what-the-heck-happened-to-berserk/.117834
Why Does The Crunchyroll Original Series EX-ARM Look So Awful? (also by me) - https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/feature/2020-11-09/why-does-the-crunchyroll-original-series-ex-arm-look-so-awful/.166117
The Cinematic Legacy of Square Enix - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gyt9xZCx_YY
A-Tribe Stunt Team - https://atribe-stunt.com/
Visual Flight website - http://visualflight.jp/
Interview with Ufotable's Yuichi Terao (by me) - https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/feature/2018-01-10/interview-yuichi-terao-chief-of-ufotable-digital-team/.125658
Interview with Sword Art Online: Alicization's Kentaro Waki (also by me) - https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/interview/2019-01-09/sword-art-online-alicization-director-of-photography-kentaro-waki/.140449

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Intro:
Animated by Christian Maize (@CookieficationJ)
Music by Steven Kelly (@Sarifus)
Produced for The Canipa Effect

Anime series featured in this video (chronologically):

EX-ARM
Berserk (2016)
Fullmetal Alchemist
D4DJ First Mix
Land of the Lustrous
Love Live! School Idol Project
Hi Score Girl
Little Busters
Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse
The Legend of Korra
Psycho-Pass
Attack on Titan
Game: Final Fantasy VII Remake
Game: Final Fantasy VIII
Game: Lightning Returns: Final Fantasy XIII
Game: Final Fantasy XIII
Game: Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice
Francesca: Girls Be Ambitious
Yowamushi Pedal: The Movie
BEASTARS
Fate/Stay Night: Heaven's Feel i. presage flower
Sword Art Online: Alicization - War of Underworld
Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba
Blame!
Sword Art Online: Ordinal Scale
RWBY
Game: Devil May Cry 3: Dante's Awakening
Game: Final Fantasy X
Sk8 the Infinity
Wonder Egg Priority
Mushoku Tensei: Jobless Reincarnation
Re:Zero - Starting Life in Another World
That Time I Got Reincarnated by a Slime
Log Horizon: Destruction of the Round Table

Music:

Don't Give Up - The Lighthearts
Defective Chain - Psycho-Pass Season 3
Bio Contact - Psycho-Pass Season 2
Sibyl System - Psycho-Pass
Cymatic Scan - Psycho-Pass Season 2
Express - Psycho-Pass Season 3

All footage is used for the purpose of review and is fair use.