Originally Posted by
Akiyama
Uh, animation in certain episodes take a huge hit. You can't tell me the stuff during the fillers didn't look any different from say.. the Hokage Battle or the Naruto/Sasuke fight during the Rescue Sasuke arc, or hell.. even earlier in the series with the Orochimaru vs Sasuke fight in the Forest of Death. There are some episodes throughout the filler arcs that were horrid.. (The one with the Lightning Sword guy in that wierd Cloud Village thing they did).. horrid animation. The animation in this episode was quite bad for a "Special".. I
That's because all of those well-animated fights you listed were done by the same guy. A guy who does all of his animation by hand, so it takes a shittong of time.
Although I agree that the animation has gotten pretty shitty. Usually they get good animation for a big fight, but when its bad, its BAD.