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It seems that Japanese animation is heavily stylized, meaning that how it looks no matter what you watch seems all very similar e.g. big sparkly eyes, triangles for noses etc.... probably why its so popular, because its different to american animation which seems most of the time to resemble real-life only in cartoon version.
Anyway, i got a whole heap of emotion from that lecture- I did cry when bambi's mother died, and i still do- but I also cried when Butterfree left pokemon: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-AY1Mjg0sTQ
I got the impression that Bill was maybe suggesting that american animation tends to be more emotional than japanese animation- when you watch miyazaki that may be true, his style and the subject of his films tend to touch more on the odd and artistic side of animation rather than the emotional side. I believe that, depending on the emotion the voice actors bring across and the animation of faces in particular, any animation- no matter where it originates- can bring a tear to one's eye. Animation doesn't need any specific style to bring through emotion, its all about how animators can manipulate their style to get the effect they want.
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