Kanon, you're a great show, but...that looked really fake.

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PureFireBlaze

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I just saw episode 21 of Kanon, and...wow, um...that was a really bad special effect (or whatever it is).

The end of the episode included:

Akiko getting run over by a car...while it was flipping...and when the car hits her, you can easily see Akiko vanish.

As soon as a saw that I said "Oh my God, that was the worst effect in animation history." It felt like something from Final Destionation, it was just fake and unreal.

I didn't laugh, I was just horrified on how awful that looked. Eek.
 
Actually, this is a case where the audience expectations are unrealistic. I mean...

If you're expecting her to fly away like a cartoon character, sure. But it's pretty clear she was crushed.

I couldn't find one without a joke added tastelessly at the end, but observe here, and note how if it weren't for the angle, the exact same thing happens.
 
Um, there is such a thing as artistic license and effect y'know.

You really think with Kanon's relatively low-key, whimsical, and at times mild nature would really include a grotesque sequence showing that event? It'd be too jarring for its own good and be more detrimental to the effect than just a mere vanishing light. Not to mention, it was meant for dramatic effect as if it would reveal a short moment of "Will she? Won't she?" or what have you.

Also some pictures would be nice to show how bad this effect really is.
 
I know, it would be pretty awful if there was blood and stuff, but, they've could've done it at her point of view, instead.

It just looked silly from an overhead angle.



I don't think pictures would be the better way to go, but here's the video of the infamous scene:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j5GVLCe33Nw
 
All I was thinking after that scene was, "She couldn't have walked any faster?" I mean she walks across the street like a feeble old lady.

I mean, when I'm crossing the street, I try to spend as little time doing so as possible.
 
I can accept that she was knocked underneath the car, and Juu covered other aspects of this pretty well. I will agree that doing it from her point of view would have been effective, but the suddenness of the accident is nonetheless communicated in the scene quite well.
 
And then there's Saiyuri getting hit (the seond time) by one of those demons in Mai's arc. Despite bleeding a lot, she still enRAB up okay.
 
It's been a while since I saw Kanon, but doesnt the mother survive? They need to show her in the accident, but it cant be brutal enough you question why she's still alive in the damn thing.
 
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