#RJEKSKSK VAL U PROBABLY DIDNT EXPECT THIS TO BE SO LONG IM SORRY

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tell us ur animation thots re: the differences between atla and lok blease i want to know ur expert opinions and if u have a fave between the two 👀

👀👀👀 ok so i..ive been watching animation and anime since i was like 3? i have TASTE.

atla if i remember correctly was the combined work of three different animation studios, and lok (except for a brief stint for the first half of book 2 with studio..pierrot?) was studio mir!!

i would say that atla’s animation is on that zone of “you can tell it’s dated but it’s so gorgeous and it still holds up with movements/backgrounds/expressions” — like sailor moon, full metal alchemist brotherhood, any ghibli movie, cardcaptor sakura. like you KNOW it wasn’t made recently but the quality of everything blows even the most recent animation out of the water (lowkey why i cant stand anime anymore—if the animation isnt good, i can’t stomach it and i really hate how modern day animes look lmao)..i would say for atla in more filler eps you can kinda tell the difference in animation from studio to studio but overall from the beginning to the end,, there’s a MASSIVE difference and it’s like..damn the beauty of animation..

lok is..visually, it’s STUNNING, GORGEOUS, BEAUTIFUL..whatever ur thoughts on it are, i think we can all agree. studio mir did a REALLY good job in mimicking atla’s style. like even from ep 1 of lok the backgrounds? the fluidity of motion?? there’s this specific shot im thinking of is korra practicing airbending through this one air nomad contraption...if anyone can find a gif of it please let me know because UGH... The use of colors especially in the end of book 2 and book 4..god i cry.. the snow scenes.. it makes sense tho just like..the industry changes and the techniques that have been developed from atla ending to lok starting that brought SUCH a massive difference.

what’s cool is that studio mir also did voltron (i know i know bear with me) and the jump of quality from lok to voltron is also equally as staggering (ok like..voltron was good until s2 and then i hated how they treated the canon-in-the-western-sense east asian characters lmao). i know they have a new project which i’ll probably check out just to fawn over the animation lol

tl;dr atla’s animation is STILL superb and beats a majority of recent western animation + animes. lok’s just that much better.

#can u tell i really wanted to be an animator as a kid fjdksmsk #i do think atla HAS the best animation still in comparison to like shera or steven universe #it’s much more pleasing to look at imo #RJEKSKSK VAL U PROBABLY DIDNT EXPECT THIS TO BE SO LONG IM SORRY #atla #lok #val #🖤🖤🖤🖤