The Anime/manga thread (+ recommendations!)

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eviltie

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Sep 16, 2012 7:32 AM #740368
Alright guys. I'd like to not transform this thread into an endless argument.

@Myself - Do you mean a standart model with proportions, etc.? Also as far as I know, The Simpson were made using vector type of animating.

@Jombo - I see. Have you got any good anime suggestions for me to understand the level?

@Index - You're right, I shouldn't have applied my opinion to everybody, but let me explain how I came to that conclusion. First of all, anime is mostly being made using the traditional type of animating AKA frame-by-frame redrawing. It basically requires a lot of drawing. Now if you browse such art portals as Deviantart for years, you don't need to be an analytic to notice, that about 49% of all submissions belongs to "Manga&Anime" category (other 50% - Mlp nowadays, 1% for everything else). There are also tons of samples/temples/bases (not even mentioning the amount of tutorials). It doesn't matter where are people who draw it from, it's not about their culture; it's worldwide. My conclusion out of all this: anime is relatively easier to draw. Now, I didn't say it's popular because it's easier to draw, I said it's quite a handy style to start with and it's popular by itself. Easiness and popularity have no connection in this one. Anyway, it was my conclusion. One day when I was bored, I began randomly draw stuff. I tried to draw a cartoon-ish character, some Disney stuff and suddenly decided to draw an anime girl. I haven't watched any tutorials back then, but it turned out pretty average. I was surprised by the easiness of the shapes. So my statement has been confirmed successfully. I'm a kind of person who thinks: "If I can do it, anybody can". It has several reasons - f.e I couldn't do anything with brush tool less than year ago (I think, I even mentioned it in our convos in the Chat thread). So yeah, that's my explanation; it's easier for me to draw some anime instead of Disney's Snowhite or Jerry from Tom&Jerry. I'm sorry for being so wrong.

@Miccool - It depends on an aspect. As I said in IRC, I'm a sucker for ideas. That's why I honestly think that Doors3 is better than Naruto.


Tl;dr - I had to type 5/6 of all this TWICE, because auto-save didn't do shit.
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Sep 16, 2012 8:49 AM #740403
Oh I wasn't talking about you.. lol.. Also doors3 has a better idea than naruto? o__o
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Sep 16, 2012 9:49 AM #740426
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Also doors3 has a better idea than naruto? o__o

See what I did there? If not - never mind.
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Sep 16, 2012 10:22 AM #740443
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Also as far as I know, The Simpson were made using vector type of animating.


Only the newer episodes. ie, from a bit before the movie and onwards. Before that is was hand-drawn (or at least something approximating hand-drawn)
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Sep 16, 2012 1:06 PM #740539
My knowledge on anime.

-Spongebob
-Pulp Fiction

That is all.
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Sep 16, 2012 4:59 PM #740671
eviltie I think you're muddling what's easy to draw with what's fun to draw.
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Sep 16, 2012 5:39 PM #740692
I like anime.
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Sep 16, 2012 5:59 PM #740703
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I like anime.

Don't we all?
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Sep 16, 2012 6:31 PM #740712
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Don't we all?


Sick Signature. Don't tell me thats from Sword Art online cause I've been wanting to watch that Anime so badly lmao. My Anime addiction has lessened over the last few months but I gotta get back into the gammmeemem. Starting with the Swords and probably Clanned or w/e.
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Sep 16, 2012 11:49 PM #740912
I suggest you guys watch Rosario+Vampire, it's epic and actiony!
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Sep 17, 2012 12:01 AM #740923
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Sick Signature. Don't tell me thats from Sword Art online cause I've been wanting to watch that Anime so badly lmao. My Anime addiction has lessened over the last few months but I gotta get back into the gammmeemem. Starting with the Swords and probably Clanned or w/e.

yeah, this signature (and my avatar) are from SAO
@colddweller, Id suggest more that you read the manga, the R+V anime seems mediocre to me
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Sep 17, 2012 1:47 AM #740966
It's more like 99:1, really. There are always slight things wrong or off in the art style that I immediately recognize as deviantart-grade shit. That's at best, though. The vast majority is like, lolwhatareyoudoing. I rarely see users who are capable of drawing things that look like official Japanese anime art. There have been times where I dug through deviantart just because I wanted to find out if anyone was able to accurately draw anime characters the way they actually look in their respective anime, and it took a lot of digging to find the rare examples. I don't visit the site often at all, though, so if there are some people I don't know about, I'd like to see their work. I am pretty sure that there is not a single western "manga" that actually looks like a legit manga in existence.
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Sep 17, 2012 4:13 AM #741016
Heh, I would usually disagree with you just to get to see your flustered paragraph of response.

But you make a good point.
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Sep 17, 2012 5:24 AM #741052
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I am pretty sure that there is not a single western "manga" that actually looks like a legit manga in existence.


There are.
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Sep 17, 2012 5:28 AM #741054
heh
that was funny.