Some of you may know that for the past month, I have been blathering about my theory that Part 2 is going to have a change up of the animation staff, and thus make a huge jump in quality, probably after episode 14.
Well guess what? The ANN has updated their credits page and there are a crapload of new people on.
These new additions include but are not limited to:
13 new key animators
5 (In house?) In-between animators
2 new episode directors
4 new animation directors
3 new digital photographers, something they did not use before
...and also worth mentioning is that Toshio Masuda, the man who created part 1's awsome eclectic score, was added to the list a couple of days ago.
It is probably sad for a 21 year old man to be this excited over a cartoon, but I am so happy I could crap myself.
Quickly glancing through these names, I could see that many of these guys worked on part 1 too. I am going to spend the rest of the day checking their resumes. I am particularly interested in the photographers. This is something that Naruto never had before, and I am not even sure what it is going to do for the animation.