Find the Anime Challenge

[Raven Crowking]

As for the picture with the birds... It looks heavily influenced by traditional Japanese art (is it an image from an adaptation of the weaver's story?). Traditional Japanese art is completely different from anime. So, to answer "comic book or anime", I say neither.

Comic book.

RC

 

[blargney the second]

(Shudder)

You've got me dead to rights on that one.

Less shuddering, more atoning. (The boob shirt in offering #2 was a good start.)

 

[Kafen]

Kunimatyu nailed Bishoujo anime style with his first pic.

Wow, so many options. Anyways, I would look to the Complete Divine for anime style artwork. Page 165 has a pretty solid anime image that I recall offhand. Page 155..or was it 156..has another good example. The artists in that one tend to a lot of anime style images. All you need to do is locate the artists and pick through books with their work in it. Wayne Reynolds has a strong anime flare to his work, and he provides lots of images as an example of such artists.

 

[TwinBahamut]

Comic book.

RC

Err, so what? I never professed to be an expert of any kind about western comic books. I don't read them at all. I only ever see them when I go to a local comic shop to buy manga. The important points of my argument, that it looks inspired by traditional Japanese art, and it doesn't have any anime influence, still stand.

Right now, what are you trying to prove? Either you are trying to deny there is any difference between comic book art and anime, or you are trying to claim that none of the people on the "denying anime influence" side know what they are talking about. Regardless, you are not being clear about your point at all, and it is getting annoying.

This is a discussion about anime influence on D&D art, not comic book art. Either post images from D&D, and discuss thier possible anime influence, or post examples from anime or comic books in conjunction with an explicit discussion of how they relate to the topic at hand. Anything else isn't useful or interesting.

 

[Mustrum_Ridcully]

I was going to guess,

1) Indeterminate but probably comic book.
2) Anime
3) Anime
4) Anime
5) Comic book

But then I noticed that you can right click on your images and get the answer, and now no one will believe my answers represent an honest opinion.

I thought the same, except for the 3rd with the "server" thing, which I couldn't identify clearly. (Unless you say that a server name containing anime is anime inspired artwork)

Damn, Murphy's Law destroyed any credibility to our answers.

 

[Mustrum_Ridcully]

Kunimatyu nailed Bishoujo anime style with his first pic.

Wow, so many options. Anyways, I would look to the Complete Divine for anime style artwork. Page 165 has a pretty solid anime image that I recall offhand. Page 155..or was it 156..has another good example. The artists in that one tend to a lot of anime style images. All you need to do is locate the artists and pick through books with their work in it. Wayne Reynolds has a strong anime flare to his work, and he provides lots of images as an example of such artists.

Can someone find links to these pictures? My Complete Divine is ~60 km away...

 

[Moon-Lancer]

How about this, from the Rules Compendium?

something about this look very korean.

 

[WhatGravitas]

To be fair, that's not a WotC art piece, but one commisioned by Paizo. It's from Dragon #324 (Oct 04), pg. 58 in the article "Chilled to the Bone" and the beastie is a "Black Ice Golem".

EDIT: It's by Udon Crew, Paizo commissioned them very often. WotC just re-used it.

Cheers, LT.

 

[Doug McCrae]

#2 is a Marvel comic.

The Marvel Mangaverse Black Cat.

"The series depicts an alternate Marvel universe in which the characters are drawn and portrayed in a Manga-like style."

 

[Kafen]

To be fair, WOTC used it, Lord Tirian. You can not change the qualifiers to exclude a legit piece without voiding the contest.