And I'm talking about the plot, not the animation.
You get to the end of episode 12, and it feels like there's supposed to be at least eight more episodes, going by the pacing and the way the story just stops, incomplete. There's too many unfinished investigations that have been ignored, leaving plot holes that will need to be resolved if a coherent story is to be completed.
As for the animation, yeah, there's some sections that should have been redone, stuff like "The" Major's movement - sometimes it's fluid and graceful, other times it looks like off the shelf walk cycles for popular free software, almost like the movements haven't be tuned to match the characters. Same goes with backgrounds in the first few episodes, there are places where it looks like background details were intended to be dropped in, but never got done. The artistic style is consistent, but not as well finished as the 3D of the previous two S.A.C. series.
But at least it's a significant step forward from the debacle of the live action film.
You get to the end of episode 12, and it feels like there's supposed to be at least eight more episodes, going by the pacing and the way the story just stops, incomplete. There's too many unfinished investigations that have been ignored, leaving plot holes that will need to be resolved if a coherent story is to be completed.
As for the animation, yeah, there's some sections that should have been redone, stuff like "The" Major's movement - sometimes it's fluid and graceful, other times it looks like off the shelf walk cycles for popular free software, almost like the movements haven't be tuned to match the characters. Same goes with backgrounds in the first few episodes, there are places where it looks like background details were intended to be dropped in, but never got done. The artistic style is consistent, but not as well finished as the 3D of the previous two S.A.C. series.
But at least it's a significant step forward from the debacle of the live action film.