Can we please stop hating on and insulting the Crystal animators, please?

silvermoon424:

It’s one thing to criticize the animation itself (and I’ll be honest, episode 3 WAS hella wonky), but I keep seeing a lot of vitriol and anger directed at the animators themselves.

Once again, these animators are working on a VERY low budget. They need to cut corners because, unlike the original anime, Crystal does NOT have sponsors because it’s not airing on TV; it’s a web series. As a result, the animators have had to stretch the budget (especially for the Moon Pride video) and produce a lot of low-quality animation not because they want to, but because they have no other choice. Toei isn’t giving them much.

You can go on about how, because it’s such an iconic series, Sailor Moon is bankable and deserves a higher budget (which I agree with, btw), but that’s not the animators’ decision; it’s Toei’s. The animators are just doing their job with what resources they have. And, once again, we should expect the DVD/BD releases to be quite a bit cleaned up, seeing as the animators will be given more time and money to go back and fix mistakes.

Insult the animation, not the people who drew it. I’m so sick of seeing people complain that the animators are lazy and untalented and just don’t care when they’re probably working their asses off just to produce episodes because they don’t have the resources they need and that’s not their fault.   

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    I just feel so sad how the anime team is getting bashed for something that is not their fault!!!It makes those haters...
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