Wow, Naruto pays tribute to Cowboy Bebop

[RasenDori]

seriously, you did NOT just compare a stick-man flip book to an actual production animation. theres A LOT more to it then you comprehend if you are making such a vague connection. a fight scene of that complexity has to be choreographed and have a detailed storyboard before production of it begins or things will go awry very quickly with extremely bad timing issues. just 2 seconds of animation is a hell of a lot of work. ive slaved many months producing animation for my classes that are barely 2 minutes long. rotoscoping is used to make an otherwise messy, long and difficult process clean, quick and simple.

if you still think thats is not difficult produce a fleshed out fight scene with REAL characters and let me know if you feel the same way. until then youve lost all credit in criticizing animation.

the fact that those scenes are exact duplicates is proof enough that the footage was acquired legally either through gaining the rights to the bebop scene or using the same stock footage to roto which is the most likely case because im sure the bebop team didnt want to go through the long process of animating that shot without rotoing.its not laziness. its efficiency. and you cant be an immensely popular show and get away with stealing footage.

[Animeniax]

Whoa, ease up bessie. I was just kidding. I have nothing but respect for well done animation and the effort and skill it takes to produce. Sorry it's hard to tell I was joking, but I was.

Rotoscoping or otherwise, it's a pretty cool scene.