Off-Model: Difference between revisions

** Mugen's sword would change in length, width, and curvature, sometimes it'd almost be a [[BFS]], other times it'd look like a scimitar.

** ''[[Ergo Proxy]]'', also a Studio [[Manglobe]] project, suffers from this same problem.

** Incidentally, the entire second half of episode 9 was animated in a different art style from the rest of the show (Compare Shinobu's eyes, chin, and hair from the first half). Incidentally, the artwork was actually somewhat ''better''. It might have been done to simply see if anyone noticed.

* ''[[Nadia: The Secret of Blue Water|Nadia]]'''s infamous "Island/Africa" arc resulted from a decision to extend the show. Like most filler, it fell victim to a slipping animation budget and rather bizarre "cartoony" visuals in [[Mushroom Samba|certain episodes.]]

** Sadly, after the success of the Ala Alba OVAs, the animation (and quality in general) went severely downhill in the second ''Mo Hitotsu No Sekai'' OVA. The third one was definitely better.

** For examples see [https://web.archive.org/web/20140913010232/http://bluemist.animeblogger.net/archives/negima-sakuga-tracker-asuna-version/] and [https://web.archive.org/web/20140928060323/http://bluemist.animeblogger.net/archives/negima-sakuga-tracker-yue-version/], as well as the infamous six-fingered Makie pictured above.

* The DVD sales for the second season of [[Minami-ke]] got cut in half by the power of QUALITY among other things.

* ''[[Dragonball Z]]'' had extremely varied animation quality. During the Saiyan Saga and most of the Frieza Saga, animation was high quality up until around the point Goku goes Super Saiyan. After that the animation style and quality begins to vary significantly and is most noticeable during closeups of Trunks upon his first arrival and throughout most of the Cell Saga. The quality of animation continued to vary throughout the the rest of the series (going from pretty bad to very good) but was less varied in the Buu Saga and ''[[Dragon Ball GT]]''.

** [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ieQDLa8pxMg The opening for Dragon Ball Kai somehow manages to forget the spots that appear on Krilin's forehead 22-27 seconds in] Also, since this is the third opening, the same mistake happens again towards the end. Some [[Sarcasm Mode|animation upgrade huh Toei?]]

* The first ''[[Hellsing (anime)|Hellsing]]'' TV series was notorious for this. Despite only being 13 episodes long, any episode that wasn't an excuse for awesome vampire battles was done pretty shoddily.

* The Greed Island Final [[OVA]] of ''[[Hunter X Hunter]]'' is noticeably Off Model, with lots of still frames and scaling of static "sprites" replacing actual animation.

* ''[[Moetan]]'' lampshades this in its first episode's ending segment, when Pastel Ink teaches the viewer how to say "[[Surprisingly Good English|It's great that the animation staff go all out with the quality of an anime's first episode.]]"

* The ''[[Higurashi no Naku Koro ni|Higurashi]]'' anime often suffers from off-model. For one, the characters' heads always seem too large in comparison to their bodies. The second season fixes a lot of the mistakes of the first season, but towards the end of the season you can clearly see mistakes (though, in the final episode there aren't many). The third season is on-model, but it ''is'' just five [[OVA]]s. However, there are some errors in the OVA's. The most noticeable is that Mion is missing her tattoo in the first one.

** Some episodes, like 26 of the original series, featured intentionally ugly, psychotic facial drawings and animation courtesy of popular animator Seiya Numata which, like most popular examples of "bad animation" in anime, were mistaken for animation errors due to their loose nature despite the fact that [[Fan Dumb|they were completely fitting within the context in which they were used]] (literally characters going insane).

** The Umineko manga also has some really strange artwork in places.

* ''[[Mai-Otome]]'' had some QUALITY issues starting with episode 10, where some characters' faces would be drawn out of alignment (particularly noticeable during Shizuru's battle against Midori, and especially bad in one scene during episode 16, where one minor character's facial features are almost non-existent). Episode 20 (the one with the {{spoiler|Tomoe/Shizuru bedroom kiss}}) was a mess across the board, though some of the issues were fixed for the DVD releases.