Wow, Naruto pays tribute to Cowboy Bebop

[mafrek]

I'm not sure why that thread was locked but when I saw that a long time ago, I showed it to a friend of mine and it turns out that both anime copied those moves. It's a borrowed scene from Bruce Lee, from one of his movies. I don't know which. Just wanted to let anyone who still cares know. And if this is considered a repeat topic or whatever, then sorry.

Yes it was locked, due to off-topicness and a sharp decline in relevance, accompanied by a swift increase in idiocy. Your post has been merged with the thread in question and it is now re-opened on my optimistic hopes that people can actually conduct themselves like decent human beings this time around...

[Mizuchi]

The key animator for bebop and naruto are the same person, so its not really stealing, just someone reusing old work.

[RasenDori]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rotoscope

its rotoscoping. a very common animation trick, and since naruto is like all anime is a show that airs every week when animations typically take months to make, i dont blame them for using it. im sure that it wasnt, but the proper steps where taken to roto the footage legally. mizuchi was pointed out that the key animators where the same for both productions, but not only that its even possible that the original bebop footage was probably rotoed off of live action footage, studios including classic deisney did it all the time. its no different then the motion capture thats used in 3d animation today.

[Animeniax]

That sounds like one of those made up words that will get over-used and forgotten, like sympatico and emo.

I'm not sure it even applies in this case. Both Naruto and Bebop scenes may be rotoscopes of some Bruce Lee movie footage, but when one copies the other like Naruto copied Bebop, it's straight bamboozling.

[Yukimura]

There's no realistic way to tell if the Naruto scene was taken from Bebop or taken directly from the live action anyway, unless you go and ask the guy.

[RasenDori]

There's no realistic way to tell if the Naruto scene was taken from Bebop or taken directly from the live action anyway, unless you go and ask the guy.

its actually really easy to spot a rotoed scene. they all have a fluidity thats nearly impossible to achieve when animating by hand. those silhouette scenes in the last naruto opening was all rotoscoped. im pretty sure the bebop scene was too. lots of fight scenes that complex are rotoed because of the difficulty of animated two characters interacting.

[Animeniax]

How difficult can it be to draw two characters interacting? I've made flip-book animations with two stick figures fighting and it came out pretty good. Now just flesh out the stick figures and you have your complex fight scene. There's no excuse to copy animation scenes. It's either laziness or in tribute.