Wasn’t the 2.22 scene where Kaworu said his “i’ll bring you happiness” line done by Sadamoto?, bc i’m pretty sure that’s his style. Tsurumaki’s style is somewhat different
I’m not sure what you mean by “done” as there are lots of different ways one can be involved in a particular animated scene (from being the original storyboard artist who set the scene up, to being the key animator who draws the important frames of the scene that actually appear on screen, an in-between animator for the less important frames, to the script writer and directors who influence what’s actually going on in the scene etc etc).
The main animation directors of 2.0 (who set the entire overall style of the movie) are Hidenori Matsubara and Shunji Suzuki. (And you can see the HUGE change in style when Takeshi Honda took over in 3.0).
Besides being the character designer, Sadamoto was also one of the assistant animation directors, so it’s possible he was indeed involved in that particular scene. I could have sworn he was one of the key animators in 2.0 too but I can’t find him credited as that, so it looks like he was only a key animator in 1.0 (which ought to mean that someone else actually drew Kaworu in the finished frames for his big 2.0 scene, unless Sadamoto stepped in and was uncredited)
Tsurumaki is one of the movie’s directors (along with Masayuki and Hideaki Anno) and is one of its image board / storyboard artists. No clue if he was the one who storyboarded this particular scene, however. Being a director he has far more input on how a particular scene will actually play out in finished form, hence his “we decided to give Kaworu a scary face here, woo!” comment in his interviews. He’s not a key animator, so we shouldn’t be seeing any of his artwork directly on screen. (The storyboard artwork is very rough as can be seen in the storyboards I’ve been posting from Neon Genesis Evangelion)
Tsurumaki is also one of the biggest sources of inside info for 1.0 and 2.0 due to his interviews. (Anno has very few interviews and I’m blanking on the existence of any Masayuki ones. Considering Masayuki was also the director of the original NGE Episode 24 with Kaworu, I really, reaaally wish he had interviews.)
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