Nan Desu Kan - Oct. 14 - Hiroki Hayashi

As a director for the AIC animation studio, Hiroki Hayashi has brought series such as Tenchi-Muyo and El-Hazard to life. His shows have an energetic flow, but that doesn't happen without long, hard work.	To demonstrate the point, Hayashi brought production material from the Tenchi Muyo in Love show to Nan Desu Kan. It starts with the show's Bible, the collection of storyboards that lays out each shot.
These rough sketches show how each of hundreds of scenes will be played out when the final films is made.	While fans are used to anime cels, they may not be as familiar with the enveloped that hold cels and backgrounds for each scene before they're assembled into a film.
Inside the envelope is the rough layout for the cel that will be the master shot for the scene...	...and the background painting. Nowadays at AIC, the painting is handled digitally, along with the cel's coloring.
Combine the cel with the background and you have art that nearly is ready for the animation camera, but something's missing...	...the final sequence of cels that makes up the movement of the character's mouth (otherwise Aeka couldn't talk convincingly). This represents a finished sequence that's ready for editing, but often the sequences need to be reshot.