Find the Anime Challenge

[Klaus]

Actually, we've seen warforged + similar looking anime. On what basis are you claiming that warforged were designed from that particular ppiece of anime?

IMHO, the look of the warforged is far too similar to that of Full Metal Alchemist to be dismissed.

And let's not forget the Revenant Blade elf posted a couple of pages back.

If I may give my opinion as an artist, both images show strong anime influence. Noy that it's a bad thing, mind you.

 

[Mad Mac]

Not really. The "tieflings" image posted comes from Races of Faerun.

Heh. Missed that completly. I'm not sure on the Full Metal Alchemist thing, though. The primary simularity is in the glowing eyes and the hinge jaw, and I'm not sure how many other ways there are to do these features on a Fantasy metal man. (One that looks cool, mind you)

 

[Anti-Sean]

IMHO, the look of the warforged is far too similar to that of Full Metal Alchemist to be dismissed.

On the contrary, I think it's easily dismissed; there's more to each figure than just the jaw. One could claim that Trap Jaw from He-Man was a design source, and it would have just about as much validity.

 

[Aus_Snow]

Okay, this is the first one where I can agree there's a clear manga influence.

Agree.

And it's pretty good.

Disagree, naturally.


But yes, that would be the first and only one, as things stand. IMO.

 

[Hussar]

Sorry, thought the tiefling image was from Eberron. My bad.

As far as the elf goes, is it anime to draw a character as its described? Klaus mentioned about the angular features and the like. But, elves HAVE angular features. They are specifically described as such. Is that an anime influence or just drawing what's supposed to be there?

I can't find the image, but the line drawing of the elf face portrait in the PHB shows elves to be pretty angular with huge eyes.

The Full Metal Alchemist image isn't really all that similar to the warforged image. Other than the fact that they have very similar subjects, I'm not seeing the influence. The FMA robot is huge, the WF is fairly humanoid in shape, there's no spikey bits on the WF, and the WF has all sorts of non metal bits on him.


As far as the BESM gnome goes, sorry, not going to happen. While at initial blush, I thought it might qualify, further exploration leads it to be pretty close to Hildebrant. Unless, of course, you want to start calling Hildebrant anime.

 

[Raven Crowking]

I say again, if you think that you are in the right appoint a neutral judge or judges, or I consider you forsworn.

I've started the process of enlisting neutral judges: http://messageboard.tokyopop.com/forums/showthread.php?t=10725

After a week, unless these people decide against you, I'll post the next three pictures.

 

[Patryn of Elvenshae]

or I consider you forsworn.

Oh, heavens no!

 

[Raven Crowking]

Oh, heavens no!

Just consider it a classier way of saying, "I thought you were full of it when you started this thread, and now we're just seeing if I was right."

RC

 

[Cadfan]

I asked a friend of mine to look at the thread a while back. It was several pages ago, in post 210. She's into comic books, and anime, both. Quite a large collection of both. I asked her whether the art in this thread was comic book or anime styled. I didn't tell her my opinions on the matter.

She said that it was comic book art, mostly. Some generic fantasy art. No anime.

Immediately someone told me she wasn't objective. Their reasoning was that she likes both comic books and anime. I don't know why that reasoning makes sense, but that's what they told me.

If she wasn't acceptable to the "OH NOES THE ANIME" crowd, I don't know who would be.

 

[Zoatebix]

Elongated limbs?

El Greco is so anime?