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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ankh-Morpork Guard" data-source="post: 3692260" data-attributes="member: 10079">Wow...um...I'm not sure how to respond to that.If the Warlock is anime-styled to you, then there's not much to be said, really. But that is not anime style at all. Its much, much closer to an American comic style. The ears on that image are very small compared to what anime-styled Elves or Half-Elves look like and the whole armour thing is just...armour. It doesn't invoke anime or comic books or anything other than the artist's decision on what the character would be wearing. As for the energy...well, he's a Warlock. What else is that supposed to look like? By that logic, any image of a wizard or socerer is anime.The thing about anime-styled art is that it looks very very bad in stills compared to in motion. The style is extremely simplistic and fluid. On paper, or a screen, the proportions are way off, the angles of the body are almost always sharp, and the limbs are generally very long. Spiky hair isn't just anime, though, as hair does actually clump together in spikes of a sense when you really look at it for some people anyway.Besides, that Warlock image flies in the face of being anime styled with small eyes and a broad, more realistic looking nose and other facial features. Even the ears, though pointed, are fairly realistic looking. The armour, again, doesn't really hint at anime at all. In fact, it just screams fantasy, as does the large, curved sword which looks more like a scimitar than a katana.I guess the thing is, that its fine if you don't like a particular style of art. Everyone has their tastes. My problem is with seeing huge generalizations of things that are, no offense, wrong. The feel, tone, and spirit presented in the art of 3e is really no different than what is shown in 1e. The style, however, is. But the other three things? Those aren't actually in the pieces themselves, they're from what YOU take...and most of us saw those older pieces when we were much younger and our first impressions are still with us.Nostalgia ain't bad, but you can't simply discount it, either.</blockquote>

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