The challenge of sufficient artists / illustrators at the appropriate level depends to a degree on longer term planning - I'm guessing this is by art studio at present. Should the issue be industry-wide, alternate models to develop excellence might work. So in the UK there have been sector wide apprentice schemes, contributed to by relevant industry players. This runs against the jobbing focus for anime but it could be made to work... there is mileage in this given that anime is significant, visible and growing. It goes without saying that there are other benefits to an industry wide body.
Given that Crunchyroll have shut down their commenting (poorly administered btw) it is not easy to provide feed back - in my case this is mostly to encourage writers, animators etc but can also concern personal observations on the quality of scenery / facial expression etc in effect matters that shouldn't really make the final cut... even sub-titling - which sometimes looks like it was done by AI. Such detailed minutiae doesn't belong here but in an overall sense this points to growth without a plan or design (detailed minutiae haha!!)
The challenge of sufficient artists / illustrators at the appropriate level depends to a degree on longer term planning - I'm guessing this is by art studio at present. Should the issue be industry-wide, alternate models to develop excellence might work. So in the UK there have been sector wide apprentice schemes, contributed to by relevant industry players. This runs against the jobbing focus for anime but it could be made to work... there is mileage in this given that anime is significant, visible and growing. It goes without saying that there are other benefits to an industry wide body.
Given that Crunchyroll have shut down their commenting (poorly administered btw) it is not easy to provide feed back - in my case this is mostly to encourage writers, animators etc but can also concern personal observations on the quality of scenery / facial expression etc in effect matters that shouldn't really make the final cut... even sub-titling - which sometimes looks like it was done by AI. Such detailed minutiae doesn't belong here but in an overall sense this points to growth without a plan or design (detailed minutiae haha!!)
Some good info in your article!
Terence P