I originally thought the image came from taking a photo from a high quality camera, but the level of quality seems to imply that it was directly taken from a digital copy already in a computer.
Any theories? Do any of you think it's possible there's already a DVD file of this movie going around? Maybe in some obscure unknown website.
It has to be from someone who miraculously managed to get a digital copy of the movie somehow. Or, maybe there was another special promo that had scenes from the movie, as that's where we got the rest of our screenshots. Because I don't even think that they made the DVD yet
Well, they do have something on DVD, given that they were playing scenes from the movie at that one promo (where we saw the scene with Sakura dragging Naruto by the hand off to the park).
Well, I do remember that Kishi has tweaks in a lot of moments before the movie went on air. He keeps changing until it's perfect. Once he's done, they have to start cleaning up the production. Remember that shot with workers checking on movie scenes? I bet they were tired out from cleaning up. If you ask me, judging from the preview and other critics, they say the animation can be beautiful at times, otherwise basic. It would seem that the first half has the basic part while Memna's invasion and so on is the great part. To me, I can deal with this. I'm only guessing since his entrance is pretty cool and AU! Akatsuki fights seem to have a really nice animation. So yeah, save it for the last.
Yep - I think Kishi had a lot of ideas that he wanted to put in the movie, and it was probably harder than normal with Kishi trying to make the animators meet his demands and his vision for the movie in the short time span they had. I imagine they probably worked on it, and whenever Kishi had time to take a break from the manga, he would come over in intervals to see what they had done so far. The stuff he liked, they kept, and the stuff he felt should have been done differently he probably had them change (hence him making his animators cry
).
That's why I personally think the animation is all over the place, not just the good animation in the beginning and bad animation near the end.