Find the Anime Challenge

[Desdichado]

1) That's rude.
2) Speak for yourself.
3) It's not pedantry; it's accurate and completely cogent to the discussion at hand.

1) No moreso than the continued "say manga, not anime, dammit!" posts have been.
2) He also speaks for me, as it turns out.
3) No, it's pedantic.

 

[Lonely Tylenol]

Please stop comparing still images to anime.

The Japanese term for comic books is manga. If any of the art in this thread is comparable to Japanese art it would be comparable to manga, not anime.

You do realize that the art style in manga and anime is similar, if not identical, don't you? In many cases, an anime is emulating the style of the artist of the manga the anime is based on, or a manga is written as a "novelization" of an anime, and emulates the anime's style.

The distinction is therefore more or less vacuous.

 

[Lonely Tylenol]

This is some art that was done by Joe Madureira. This is from the Races of Eberron book
Definitely Maga influences there

While Joe Mad is an american comic artist, he has cited several times that Japanese style of art has been a major influence on his work

Sweet baby Jesus! I don't play Eberron, but that image alone makes me want to buy the book. I hope WotC keeps Mad there on call for 4E. That's a seriously sweet picture; beautifully composed, dynamic, with excellent use of colour and perspective, and it certainly gets across the artist's concept of what shifters are like. Thumbs up!

 

[Lonely Tylenol]

There was an edit floating around a little while ago in which the woman was wearing armor that wasn't ridiculous. It did a lot for the picture.

If by "did a lot" you mean "removed some of the depth, colour, and compositional balance, and made the picture look like a messy photoshop," I agree with you.

 

[Lonely Tylenol]

Consider what an 'action scene' in the 2nd edition style looked like:

*snip*

To what action is today:

*snip*

It seems to me that the main difference between the former and the latter is the addition of action. Raistlin there looks like he's about to fall asleep, while his opponent looks less like he's summoning up some devastating effect to destroy his mortal enemy, and more like he's pulling taffy.

 

[Lonely Tylenol]

Look at those eyes. Case closed, right?

*snip*

Cheers, -- N

Oh yeah? Check out these eyes. Totally anime.

 

[Lonely Tylenol]

Still waiting for a merge function.

That Manga link is really cool, thanks.

I know manga art is often a bit more detailed than anime art, for obvious reasons, but it's hard to link Manga Art...I mean, if you've got full page scans up, you're basically stealing the product.

I wouldn't call Wolf and Cub Art typical of the genre though...it's out there, but much harder to find at your local bookstore than the more anime looking stuff.

That's a recent development. It's published by Dark Horse, and is still easy to find in most comic book stores I've been to. I think it's still being reprinted, even. Of course, the manga section at the local bookstore is flooded with stuff by TokyoPop and Viz, so they might not even put LWaC in with that stuff.

 

[Raven Crowking]

Oh yeah? Check out these eyes. Totally anime.

You are aware, I hope, that the early anime style was directly influenced by exactly the characters you are showing here?

Read The Anime Encyclopedia if you doubt!

RC

 

[Anti-Sean]

You are aware, I hope, that the early anime style was directly influenced by exactly the characters you are showing here?

Now that's just Goofy.

 

[DandD]

If by "did a lot" you mean "removed some of the depth, colour, and compositional balance, and made the picture look like a messy photoshop," I agree with you.

It was a messy photoshop, which the editor admitted fully, and without shame. It still let the female warrior look a little bit less silly than it already is.