What's the best-looking animated show/movie (in your opinion)?

[xdom125x]

Avatar (the James Cameron on). Best animation yet.

Fine, I will use a less argueable choice.

Justice League, Teen Titans or Avatar: tla would take my vote. To put it bluntly: "I like their style".
The last one really shows why i like it in "The Day of Black Sun" and "Sozins Comet".

P.S. My love of those shows in general might put a bit of a bias on these claims.

 

[Lord Beautiful]

Vampire Hunter D: Bloodlust is the most wonderfully animated... animation I've ever seen.


Simply spectacular.

 

[Super Toast]

Coraline and Avatar: The Last Airbender spring to mind.

 

[Small Waves]

The Secret of Kells is so Goddamn pretty.

 

[Saint of M]

Castle in the sky was pretty good. it's an old anime, but damn is it fluid!

 

[[Kira Must Die]]

I like the visuals of Studio Shaft's animes, like Bakemonogatari, Madoka Magika, and their recent Denpa Onna to Seishun Otoko:

Spoiler: Bakemonogatari

I especially love the background and lighting.

There's also the Kara no Kyoukai series, which are so detailed you can see the condensation on the windows, and has the best rain effects I've ever seen in an anime.

There's also The Disappearance of Haruhi Suzumiya, which looks well...

Spoiler

But it looks even better in motion.

And of course, a lot of studio Ghibli films, such as Spirited away, which looks utterly fantastic.

 

[Jharry5]

Serial Experiments Lain... [sub][Snipped Text][/sub]

Spoiler: images

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I was going to say this. Really like this series, choppy animatation or not, the art style more than makes up for it.

Anyway, I'd have to go with anything Aardman has done, mor specifically The Wrong Trousers and even more specifically this scene.
Maybe it's nostalgia talking, but I don't think there are many (if any) stop-motion animated scenes that look better than this...

 

[Queen Michael]

Serial Experiment Lain. That is all.

 

[SckizoBoy]

Link me to this or suffer the consequences. Everything that Aardman makes is solid gold.

Here [http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2011/may/06/aardman-animations-pirates-adventure] is the link that my big sis sent me for the press release of the announcement. Looks fun.

Though, why do I get the weird feeling that that beard looks as though it's made of chocolate cream?!

And here [http://www.aardman.com/features/upcoming-features/] is the link to Aardman's current projects. *glee*

 

[loodmoney]

I'm going to have to go with Futurama and Avatar: The Legend of Aang for Western, Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex for Japanese animation.

Contrary to this--

Remember, it's all about the animation, regardless of the quality of anything else. Story, characters, none of that matters.

--I find it too hard to separate animation quality from everything else. Futurama and Avatar I love because of the (well, everything really, but especially) the acting. More than pretty colours and crisp lines, it's the way that the characters will do small actions that you wouldn't really notice if you weren't paying attention. The attention to detail in this regard is amazing.

As for Stand Alone Complex, I particularly appreciate the animation in relation to character design. Characters are well thought out, their visual design is fantasic, and all this is fully realised in the animation. In deciding on my avatar, I was finding myself struggling to choose between Batou, Aramaki, Saito and Ishikawa--all of them were so well done.

Also, Stand Alone Complex had very nice explosions, on occasion.

 

[Nickompoop]

Studio Ghibli is still my favorite animation studio, closely followed by Pixar. So I guess I prefer the anime style, mainly because it's ridiculously easy to show the character's emotions through caricatures of the character. It'd be weird if a CG animation did that...

 

[NerfedFalcon]

the animation sequences in red vs blue are amazing. they fit perfectly into the machinma and it runs very smoothly.

Same here, but replace 'animation' with 'puppeteering' and 'Red vs. Blue' with 'Arby 'n' the Chief'.

 

[ChupathingyX]

Avatar: The Last Airbender and Samurai Jack.

 

[Matt-Sama]

I'm not big on Anime but Akira and the second Ghost in the Shell movie are just amazing to look at.
Though I personally feel Pinocchio is the finest animation ever produced.
Don't know how to post videos D:
http://youtu.be/iAykOz1gWi4

 

[Casual Shinji]

Akira.

If we're going purely by animation quality, then Akira is top dog. No hand drawn animation has come close to the visuals of this movie.

 

[General_Potatoes]

Serial Experiments Lain... [sub][Snipped Text][/sub]

Spoiler: images

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I was going to say this. Really like this series, choppy animatation or not, the art style more than makes up for it.

Anyway, I'd have to go with anything Aardman has done, mor specifically The Wrong Trousers and even more specifically this scene.
Maybe it's nostalgia talking, but I don't think there are many (if any) stop-motion animated scenes that look better than this...

Omg. Wallace and gromit. You are awesome, good sir.
And since no one has put this up yet....http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GQVRWRQsWk0 I like kids shows okay?

 

[Scarim Coral]

While I do agree on animation like Ghost in the Shell SAC, Toy Story etc but I feel this should be mention to say the least.
The best recent animation I have seen is the French animated show "Wakfu". I mean just check out the season 2 openning-
What make the animation ever more impressive is that it is created in Flash.

(Honorable mention to Paprika and any Studio Ghibli films.)

 

[Nerfherder17]

Futurama has been mentioned once or twice, and I have to agree, it included 3D panning shots about eight years before family had proper shadows in its animation.

However for the first 10 minutes of Beowulf I thought it was Live action.

 

[Pegghead]

I really enjoyed the look of the Jasper Morello shorts because I'm a big Steampunk nerd, take a look:


Hmmm, well, here's a link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vORsKyopHyM