That snow reminds me of his Wolf Children scene (you know the one) so hard.

That's adorable.

This is awesome and somewhat emotional

https://twitter.com/181ino/status/972073460452093952?s=19

Some additional insight:

@181ino
制作中に東京で大雪が降りました(私の家付近では車のタイヤが隠れる程でした)
この映像では割愛されてますが、新雪の上に雪が落ちるカットがあって実際にその時にやってみたら、上に積もるのではなく、穴が空いた様になる事発見して、作画に反映させること出来ました。
本編を一度観てみてください。

https://twitter.com/181ino/status/1542135006520541184?t=93AHudez46_bkGmD-oW3bw&s=19

What is it about Inoue's work that makes it avoid the "rotoscoped" look that is seen in the work(even if no roto was involved) of other top tier realist animators? It might just be that I'm biased but it really feels like there's something to juggling that line.

Like Okiura, I don't think Inoue actually references humans when animating, it's just common knowledge to him at this point, so his scenes are able to tread that line of not looking uncannily similar to rotoscope/a real human. I know Okiura himself gets hit with the roto accusations but I think the difference between the two is that Okiura's insanely volumetric approach is so perfected that it hits an uncanny territory of consistency that I don't think a single artist in the animation industry matches, so people naturally assume it couldn't be purely hand drawn. (This is barring maybe someone like Norimitsu Suzuki, though his human characters move so oddly that he can dodge the rotoscope accusations most of the time).

KamKKF said:
Like Okiura, I don't think Inoue actually references humans when animating, it's just common knowledge to him at this point, so his scenes are able to tread that line of not looking uncannily similar to rotoscope/a real human. I know Okiura himself gets hit with the roto accusations but I think the difference between the two is that Okiura's insanely volumetric approach is so perfected that it hits an uncanny territory of consistency that I don't think a single artist in the animation industry matches, so people naturally assume it couldn't be purely hand drawn. (This is barring maybe someone like Norimitsu Suzuki, though his human characters move so oddly that he can dodge the rotoscope accusations most of the time).

Conversely you have people like Aninari, who gets cgi accusations, mainly due to digital painting, but also you can see just how on model he is that his movement seems like a cgi asset traced over.