Before these particular scenes, the whole Naruto franchise was comparatively grounded in reality. Secondly, due to the sheer ferocity of the monstrous strength that is being displayed on the screen. They refuse to stand down -well until Naruto regains his senses at least. At this moment none of them are willing to make any compromises for each other. Both of them have lost a lot-even in the standard of this Ninja world, Naruto and Nagato have some of the most tragic life stories. That’s why we see warping surroundings, faces, and bodies, to express the emotions that characters are feeling. Animation is not supposed to be realistic, it’s supposed to be more expressive than real life. But he’s up against the senseless 4+ tailed state Naruto that has been entirely consumed by anger. These exaggerated facial expressions and flexible cartoony figures aimed to convey a couple of things.įirstly the emotion, which is quite apparent in the scene where Pain shouts “My pain is far greater than yours ” - and proceeds to punch a crater into the ground.
Do you doubt if a world-class animator can tell a difference between good and bad drawings? Of course, he knows a lot more than we do-the reason why he chose to draw it that way was due to style. This leads me to talk a bit about the art style. But this apart from the fact that it looks silly, right? Well-yeah that’s the point. Naruto, you would find a pleasant lack of still frames and more dynamic movement. And if you take a second look at the Pain vs. The point is - please never judge animations by looking at a screenshot. To make things more impactful in motion, animators bend the drawings in all sorts of different ways and it looks wonderful in motion. The most simple and straightforward way of judging if the fight was well animated is by counting the moving frames. Video can’t be loaded because JavaScript is disabled: Naruto vs Pain: Animation Explained! ()