Konno and the Web Kanada Movement

The Web Kanada Movement is now a popular breeding ground for many limited frame animators throughout the world, and it’s perhaps due to an unsuspecting Studio Break fanboy expanding anime movement vocabulary altogether. There still is a surprising growth in the use of ‘Konno/Web-Kanada smears’ as a regular tool thanks to Yuki Hayashi being partly inspired by Konno himself. 

Being the only predominantly Alt-Kanada founder out of an indirect bunch, Naoyuki Konno has fathered the Web-Kanada movement by innovating quite a lot of batshit, then-little known ideas from the mid-1990s and beyond. With his otherwise realistic shading thanks to Studio Break’s influence, he also created what are now called the ‘Konno/Web-Kanada smears’ for everyone to see! 

Being a studio break fanboy at heart, Naoyuki Konno also has animated surfing, Glen Keane-ish Super Robot scenes in Martian Successor Nadesico, which funnily enough resemble a lot of Disney’s Tarzan tree surfing scenes. He’s also the first animator to show off the basic Web-Kanada vocabulary, as his own ingenious ideas for Kanada style animation have now become more recognisable than ever before. 

Web-Kanada adoptions thus need to include newfound terms ‘Konno Surf’, ‘Konno Punch’, and ‘Konno Bishies’ amongst others. Tellingly, Konno’s intricate symmetry and body language studies remain fairly unique, though some of his ideas have now been spreading more into the Web-Kanada movement as a whole. 

Yuki Hayashi is one of the first animators to popularise ‘Konno/Web-Kanada smears’ as a regular tool, and so his influence on the modern Web-Kanada style movement endures to this day thanks to Konno’s and Kamegaki’s influential innovations. That means a lot of 90s-2000s born Web-Kanada animators must’ve watched Dragon Ball, Sonic X, Cyborg 009 and Sailor Moon on international shores! 


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