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Message: <blockquote data-quote="jester47" data-source="post: 692250" data-attributes="member: 2238">To answer the frikkin question.I think it comes down to lines.  The more serious subject matter the more lines you will see.  Good examples of this are in the more serious animes like Princess Mononoke, Ghost in the Shell, and the serious scenes in Cowboy Bebop.  Compare these to the lighthearted scenes in cowboy bebop, Ruroni Kenshin, and all of Ranma 1/2.  You get more lines.  Other places you see it are when Todd Mcfarlane was working on the Amazing Spiderman, notice that when Todd started on it, things got a lot darker?  The other place more lines connotate a more serious subject are in Batman: The Dark Knight Returns, Hard Boiled, Original Judge Dread, A lot of the art in Heavy Metal and Ironically the Eastman and Laird TMNT.  However the best example is in Warhammer art.  The stuff is always serious and has a huge line count. So my answer is yes, anime style art could work if done right(i.e. more lines than what was shown in that dragonlance site).  I would say be very very careful.  Or avoid it and not have to worry at all.  Even then I think anime style art would hurt sales as many customers of Fantasy RPGs want somthing that looks more like sketches and oils rather than cartoons.  Most people want representations of people, not charicatures, which is what anime and comics in general are based on.  Cartoons are then based on comics.However if Dragonlance is gonna be anime, it had better look like this:</blockquote>

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