{"id":4948,"date":"2010-06-27T22:51:57","date_gmt":"2010-06-28T02:51:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bugfox.net\/fun\/?p=4948"},"modified":"2010-06-27T22:51:57","modified_gmt":"2010-06-28T02:51:57","slug":"ni-no-kuni-the-future-of-animation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bugfox.net\/fun\/2010\/06\/27\/ni-no-kuni-the-future-of-animation\/","title":{"rendered":"Ni no Kuni&#8211;The Future of Animation?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ars Technica links to<a href=\"http:\/\/arstechnica.com\/gaming\/news\/2010\/06\/first-footage-of-studio-ghiblilevel-5-game-looks-gorgeous.ars\"> some demo footage<\/a> of <em>Ni no Kuni: The Another World<\/em>, a video game being developed by Level 5 and Studio Ghibli.<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s only so much you can tell from a 2-minute promo clip. The gameplay itself doesn&#8217;t look like a breakthrough&#8211;sort of Pokemonish in fact. The graphics on the other hand do indeed look amazing. It&#8217;s obviously computer-generated, but it looks surprisingly like a Studio Ghibli hand-drawn <a href=\"\/fun\/terms-used-in-anime-reviews#anime\">anime<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>On closer examination, the quality isn&#8217;t really at a Studio Ghibli level. Maybe more like a second-tier studio&#8217;s imitation of Studio Ghibli. Nevertheless it looks vastly better than what we have come to expect from computer generated animation.<\/p>\n<p>Could this approach become good enough to revolutionize CG animation? Possibly. Could it become good enough to kill off hand-drawn animation? Regrettably that&#8217;s also possible. We shall see.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ars Technica links to some demo footage of Ni no Kuni: The Another World, a video game being developed by Level 5 and Studio Ghibli. There&#8217;s only so much you&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/bugfox.net\/fun\/2010\/06\/27\/ni-no-kuni-the-future-of-animation\/\">Read more &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[366,250],"class_list":["post-4948","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anime","tag-ni-no-kuni","tag-studio-ghibli"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugfox.net\/fun\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4948","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugfox.net\/fun\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugfox.net\/fun\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugfox.net\/fun\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugfox.net\/fun\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4948"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/bugfox.net\/fun\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4948\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4951,"href":"https:\/\/bugfox.net\/fun\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4948\/revisions\/4951"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugfox.net\/fun\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4948"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugfox.net\/fun\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4948"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugfox.net\/fun\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4948"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}