Wikipedia says he's an author, actor and musician, who's apparently quite famous back home. His music has been used for various anime, TV shows and video games, so it's likely his voice (and/or track) we're hearing in the background.
Agreed. CGI is just bleh when its used like this. To be honest I hate it when they "cartoonize" the CGI. Like that god awful Gundam series. Anyways its a similar style. 3D with cartoonish skinning, Just come on if they're gonna do CGI go all the way. Go for the best and top quality you can possibly get. I mean... how incredibly amazing would it before for the detail to be near the levels of advant children? I don't see why not. Berserk fans wait months between chapters, I would gladly wait 1-2 months for each 30min-1 hour episode if its that detailed. They need to do this manga justice, its my only qualm. But beyond that I have to be happy that they're doing it.
Most of that 30 million is production costs after the fact. The technology and tools to actually create that CGI would remain the same, just more time would be put in to it. I am a 3D Animator by unemployment's design and really its like saying Naruto costs a lot less compared to Berserk, because Berserk is much higher detailed. The materials are the same its just a matter of time and effort. I just expect them to make the anime as much of a masterpiece as the manga they're basing it on.
Same. I've no problem with 3D animation per se; done properly, it can be just as impressive and effective as its 2D counterpart. It's only when it's used in this way, where they try to integrate it with 2D animation, that it becomes an issue.
Don't forget manpower. Time and effort are expensive, moreso than you'd think.
It is much easier to make advant children level CGI than it was a few years ago when the movie came out. And the idea is the same amount of man power, just take longer on the releases to give us something worthy of the manga. And ya the whole point to 3D animation is realism, not this stylization. It always makes the characters end up with no emotion. They could easily keep it 2D as you said and I would be more pleased -- but then again we will have to wait and see.
I thought the old anime was great. Blood and death and awesome story to boot. The animation wasn't terrible but ya they can do better and I hope they will.I'm sooo curious because right now I love Berserk but the old anime is so bad