Yoshiyuki tomino, creator of Mobile Suite Gundam, is someone very respected within the animation medium in Japan. It is because of what the comments he made in the exhibition World of Yoshiyuki Tomino at Hokkaido Museum of Modern Art they should be taken into account.
There he pointed out that, at least for him, ‘Japan is no longer a leader in animation’. It was later that he explained exactly what he was referring to; more than anything, from a technological point of view.
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According Tomino ‘as digital techniques evolve, I feel like the animation industry’s position will become precarious’.
He highlighted the high quality of music videos and their technological advancement, saying ‘As a person in the anime industry, it irritates me that they have gone so far that they can even do animation. But it is also a sign of how using digital animation, a single individual can create something satisfying. ‘.
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The creator of Gundam he pointed ‘The question is… how should Japanese anime production, which deals with series and story-based works, consider these developments?’.
Then he showed that in Sunrise there is indifference about such innovations, and he thinks that both he and the company must seek new talent. Expect things to evolve and there is a teamwork to create something beyond personal projects.
Yoshiyuki Tomino warns of China’s challenge
Wait for a way to ‘open entertainment’ for the public, and that the visions of older people like him are not as necessary to push things forward. Yoshiyuki tomino He warned that China is growing a lot in animation.
Especially in Beijing, and commented ‘they are developing highly polished commercial entertainment jobs’. The anime fans who attended his talks at the Beijing University now they are animation professionals.
The person in charge of Gundam stressed that the Chinese government is supporting the animation industry a lot while in the country of the Rising Sun politicians are ‘stuck in 30 or 40 years in the past’.
Yoshiyuki tomino warned ‘There is a danger that if Japan continues to make anime with a unique focus on the commercial angle, we will suffer a total defeat from the boys of Beijing’. Maybe it is still time to do something about it.
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