I am convinced, no matter how much wannabe-anime style art I've seen, that one has to at least have some Asian in them to draw the anime/manga style. Yes, it's also cultural, but culture and genes go hand in hand. The "L/R" misconception is actually the ear and brain processing the letters a certain way, and Japanese people are also more responsive to higher pitched sounds rather than low bass, as seen in a lot of their music. So call me a eugenics Nazi, I don't care.
Most US or Europe art tends to have square or straight eyes, to denote seriousness or "toughness." The anime round eye style seems to be a perception of femininity, a welcoming of it even in males, that allows the character to look naturally gentle or naive. The sense of 2D moving fluidly in 3D is also different in some way. US animators tend to focus on the whole body at once, from disney to Hanna Barbera to South Park to any show made for Adult Swim.
The closest thing to anime art is Pinup girls of the mid twentieth century (when females could be oggled without complaint) and some US comics, especially Image, but even these aren't pure manga style (they are unique, but some try to resemble anime).
There is some perception of what a character "should" look like to manga artists, which creates the style, and can be seen in Korean anime style art where the heads are wider or more squished. Somehow, the us perception of what a charracter should look like in 2D either ends up very two dimensional, or like Furry art. Something in US artists makes a lot of them predisposed to drawing Furry art, or cartoon animals, but not humans. Humans have always been the most awkward, strangest things to draw, and either must look photorealistic as in fantasy art, or be abstract and cartoony.
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Anonymous2009-09-20 13:42
anime is gay
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Anonymous2009-09-20 13:43
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I'm an artist and animator and I'll settle this once and for all. I grew up on American cartoons so my first exposure to DBZ was a mind blower. At the time I couldn't tell the difference, but I was still pretty much into American cartoons but there was clearly a distinction. Eventually I saw the Anime influence in certain American cartoons only to learn that they were outsourced to japanese animation studios.
But more than that, even the content matter is completely different. The japanese (not Asian) take on animation stems from something specific to Japan, whether it be culture or genetics (though we have yet to prove what genetics are and exactly what influences evolution in DNA etc) This was very interesting to me even though I still couldn't properly articulate the differences. Disney, my long time favorite animation studio, who I've come to know as having near life like animation still just didnt come close to the "choppy" japanese style of animating. This is illustrated further even in motion capture brought on by CG imagery. Western animators tend to be following some kind of rigid polka while the Japanese have this free following waltzy feel to their characters.
I can just look at any animation and tell you where it's from, even if an artist copied an original anime frame for frame (maybe not) but I can always tell it's origins. The French have their own style, and Chinese do too. My favorite Manga-ka is Ogure Ito, I just love his art style, but what I'm getting at is even in the manga stills the whole animation sequence is laid out. You can feel some kind of energy emanating from the storyboard-like sequences. I'm a pretty good artist I think, but I don't really have a personal style. I live in a 3rd world country with barely 200K people and there is absolutely no animation studio here. My major influences have been American animators/Marvel/DC comics but I'm planning on stealing someone's art style for my own and I choose Oh Great!
Maybe one day I'll be able to define what separates Western from Eastern Artists/Animators but until then I think it's foolish to even compare the two. Even if you could copy the art style, the concepts covered in the average manga or anime are light years ahead of anything I've ever seen from American graphic literature.
I AM NOT FROM THE US OR Japan.... but I'm Canadian :D and no, I don't live in an igloo ):<
I draw anime, shonen realisticish style(wird cuz im a girl lolz)
I'm not the best, but not half bad but then again when i was little my fav shows were sailor moon, card captor sakura and pokemon and I perfer Studio ghibli ofer disney.
now im 16 and watch normal tv + all kindes of anime like:
Hetalia
Black Butler
Deathnote
Baccano
Durarara
ouron highscool host club
Narut
Naruto shippuden
Blech
melancholy of haruhi suzumia
.hack//
D.grayman
Code geass
ghost hunt
Luck Star
xxxholic
*gasp* ;A; I could go on forever!!!
... wait o30 what was i talking about,
>>216
This reminds me of reading that "penguin of doom" copypasta/kopipe.
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Octos2011-02-17 14:58
It's simple, really. Americans draw Anime that they see, and try to get that style. Japanese Artists are churned through an unholy machine to spit out Manga. Really, most of the Manga artists were raised in backrooms of Anime studios spending ungodly hours creating and cleaning frames. If an American went through the same process, they'd be ace too. But since the Industry here is so different, only the most recognized graduates get the jobs, instead of having hundreds of little frame slaves. So called American Manga is usually just some fanboy.
>>216
I'm Canadian and live in an igloo. Where's your fucking igloo sir.
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Anonymous2011-08-29 15:08
If this post is post 221, we will get actual lives.
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Anonymous2011-08-29 19:43
If trips, I get trips.
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Excuse me....2011-09-25 0:32
As my nickname says, excuse me, but at least Americans draw at all, and I'm pretty sure that in some cases, our art is better than anime. Spiky hair and sparkely, big eyes aren't always the best. And I belive that if I can draw pokemon, than goddamnit, America can draw pokemon! I belive they already are... And I also think that 2011 thunder cats is currently being made by Americans. And the original was good too! Most American art today is kinda Bleh, but back in the no-worries, no-problems years of our proud country, we made some damn fine comics and cartoons. Sure, colors weren't as bright as they are today, but that retro feeling always has a warm spot in my heart. Oh, and that thing about animals, of course that's true! The human body is fucking hard to draw! Do you know just how hard it is to draw hands?! DO YOU?!?! I feel like american art is smarter because we find different ways to draw things, like how we found that hands don't need 4 fingers and a thumb, it could be 3 fingers and a thumb! XD
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Excuse me.... 2011-09-25 0:46
Oh, and I must also say that anime animation SUX ASS! Seriously? Most anime is just mouths moving, alot of the same drawings used over and over again, but with different backgrounds sometimes, anime also has alot of stories based off of one another, very repetitive, I must say. You think Americans are bad with cartoons? At least we make smooth transitions, we aren't lazy, and we actually bother to make some of the best animated cartoons out there, sure, you might have hetalia, fooly cooly, full metal alchemist and other animes that I throughly enjoy, but some childrens cartoons I see on tv is just a relief to see compared to anime that I start to feel all tense like I've been that way for a week or something, and than it just releases..
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Excuse me....2011-09-25 0:48
As my nickname says, excuse me, but at least Americans draw at all, and I'm pretty sure that in some cases, our art is better than anime. Spiky hair and sparkely, big eyes aren't always the best. And I belive that if I can draw pokemon, than goddamnit, America can draw pokemon! I belive they already are... And I also think that 2011 thunder cats is currently being made by Americans. And the original was good too! Most American art today is kinda Bleh, but back in the no-worries, no-problems years of our proud country, we made some damn fine comics and cartoons. Sure, colors weren't as bright as they are today, but that retro feeling always has a warm spot in my heart. Oh, and that thing about animals, of course that's true! The human body is fucking hard to draw! Do you know just how hard it is to draw hands?! DO YOU?!?! I feel like american art is smarter because we find different ways to draw things, like how we found that hands don't need 4 fingers and a thumb, it could be 3 fingers and a thumb! XD
Yeah um,I am american but I can draw anime/manga whatever very well and funny thing is I am part Japanese and to draw anime you really have to pay close attention to how they are drawn, i'm pretty sure even americans with non-asian decent can draw in the japanese caroon style decent enough oh and also i think anime is kinda lame and over used(except for Astro Boy, I really like that for some reason) anyway I recently started making my own style of drawing that is actually getting popular oh and get this it's based off of American cartoons drawn over 90 years ago like Kewpie and all that. Being an artist is being your self, that's why anime became so popular because it was very different from what the rest of the world was used to, but if we were to make our own styles(talking about EVERY artist out there world wide)we would all be popular just be your self and do what you do :)
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Anonymous2013-08-30 12:06
yeah it's a matter of genes
Black people invented rap , so you have to have black genes to sing rap like Eminem