How to identify different animation supervisors | Page 2

Something I might do a bit more often are some of these: a bunch of images of characters done by different animation directors to give you a hint of how different they look in each episode.

Starting off with my favourite character Alain... because of course.

Alain was mostly animated by Massaki Iwane during the Mega Evolution specials but once his story merged into the XY series, this allowed other animators in the series to get a piece of the good ol "DORAGON CRO" pie.

Of course Iwane still hanged around with him animating episodes 14, 23, 37 and 43 but as for the other animators these included:

- Kyoko Niimura? (Alain's cameo in Episode 1 of XYZ)
- Junji Uesugi (Episode 13, Episode 41)
- Izumi Shimura (also did little bits and pieces for the Mega Evolution specials plus Episode 13, Episode 35 and Episode 40)
- Kanae Matsunaga (Episode 13)
- Takashi Shinohara (Alain's flashback appearance in a Kalos Quest episode plus Episode 30 and Episode 34)
- Shinji Matsuda (Episode 32)
- Aito Ohashi (Episode 35, Episode 47)
- Kunihiko Natsume (Episode 36)
- Tomohiro Koyama (Episode 38, Episode 39, Episode 42, Episode 47)
- Yasushi Nishitani (Episode 38)
- Kazuki Aoki (Episode 39)
- Michinosuke Nakamura (Episode 39)
- Yu Uchida (Episode 39)
- Hiroshi Mimata (Episode 40)
- Yuta Ito (Episode 40)
- Ken Itakura (Episode 40)
- Junji Kumanami (Episode 41)
- Atsushi Ogata (Episode 42)
- Miyuki Ueda (Episode 44)
- Kenji Irie (Episode 44)

It's most noticeable in the change when some of these episodes (especially the Kalos League episodes) reuse a lot of Iwane's footage either from previous episodes or the special.
To me it kinda felt weird seeing Alain done by different animators since I normally knew the character for Iwane's stuff but nevertheless there's the list.

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