Confirmed episode 437+ changes to the opening will happen

[1000 Chirping Birds]

Ugh is it just the Sasuke swap or?

Because that's lame and underwhelming

 

[artondrius]

Are there any other good animators working on an episode?

They have not been doing much for these fillers, but I think they will be more active when canon comes back

Yamashita only did a few seconds of animation in episode 440 (at the end I think), nothing big

 

[11TailedBox]

Ugh is it just the Sasuke swap or?

Because that's lame and underwhelming

Unfortunately.

Here's a video of both versions.
[video=youtube;0oGkfoE14wU]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0oGkfoE14wU[/video]