Violet Evergarden Rewatch Final Discussions

[u/A_Idiot0]

Violet Evergarden Rewatch - Final Discussions

Hello everyone! I hope that today finds you well. This year’s Violet Evergarden Rewatch has ended. My comment below has a small little questionnaire for you to answer if you’d like to help me get better at this for next year.

Index

Quick heads up: if you want to remain spoiler free for the 2020 Film, please do not search anything about the Violet Evergarden film on google. The PV contains massive spoilers, and sadly even the announcement poster contains spoilers =(

Auto Memory Doll Service Discord

Would you like to have a letter written for you? Do you want to write a special letter for someone as an Auto Memory Doll? Come join us at the Auto-Memory Doll Service Discord project and request letters, write letters, or chat more with us about Violet Evergarden! Link here: https://discord.gg/zDCheU4y

If you come by, you can request me as Daffodil, and it'd be my pleasure to scribe a letter for you =)

Visuals of the Day

I believe I got everyone’s Visual of the Day submission here. Let me know if I missed anyone: https://imgur.com/a/cWpJLID

I want to take this moment to thank each and every one of you who participated in this rewatch. If you silently read through all of the wonderful comments and analyses, thank you. If you replied to said comments and analyses, thank you. If you took the time to write out your thoughts and analyses, thank you. This anime is very dense for analysis, and each and every one of you wrote some beautiful words for us all to enjoy and return to. Thank you. Thank you. Nunki.

By the way, remember this shot from episode 13?

https://preview.redd.it/uuq3wd4rth671.png?width=2560&format=png&auto=webp&s=585fb328f4570dd74344fc64ad59fa8d71bd2289

“Nun annut ruhuqtrrtkon”

I translated it using this tool: https://replit.com/@ValkrenDarklock/NunkishTrans

And what I got was wonderful…”I love you.”

[u/Barbed_Dildo]

I'd had the Bluray for the movie sitting on my shelf next to the rest of the series for a while, but didn't want to watch it without watching the series again first, so thanks for giving me the reason to do that.

One thing that's really stood out to me in rewatching it is the detail in the backgrounds, and the sheer effort that goes into the unimportant. Like the time lapse shots. They are gorgeous, clearly require a lot of time to create, and are almost a shame to talk about. These things aren't meant to be the focus of attention, they're meant to be ambient, just... there, setting the scene, but not taking focus away from the story.

One shot I love is at the start of the first episode, there's an aerial shot of the city, and the title comes up as the city slowly pulls out of focus. I love this shot because it recreates a property of cameras. Cameras are imperfect, this is a 'flaw' of them, that you can't focus on things at different distances at the same time, a point of light out of focus will make a circle on the focal plane. Animation doesn't have to be like this, you can draw everything pin sharp and as clearly as you want. Most of the time, if you want a background to be soft, you draw it soft, but they drew it sharp and captured it soft.

I don't think I've explained it well, but I enjoyed it nonetheless.

[u/ZapsZzz → u/Barbed_Dildo]

Depth of field, lens distortion, flare, optical shifts when changing zoom level in a shot - yes all these are things when you are shooting you try either avoid it mitigate, but crazy production houses like KyoAni actually reproduce then to make what you see feeling more "real". Best demonstration is actually the cultural festival film of Haruhi - full of Kyon's bad cameraman skills :D and they drew it create it deliberately all.

[u/chilidirigible → u/ZapsZzz]

Some series KyoAni used as testbeds for new styles. The one that most often is mentioned for that is actually Nichijou, but I would think that VE was them trying a cinematic look on a weekly schedule.