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Offline Jesta23

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Your favorite art style.
« on: January 01, 2010, 02:26:10 AM »
I have started watching macross frontier and the art style in this show is stunning.

Some of the backgrounds are amazing.

Im curious, as to what everyone else s favorite anime style is.


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Re: Your favorite art style.
« Reply #1 on: January 01, 2010, 02:32:21 AM »
When i watched THORA's EF- A tale of memories, i remember thinking the art was quite stunning.

Offline shabutie

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Re: Your favorite art style.
« Reply #2 on: January 01, 2010, 02:48:13 AM »
I usually try to stick to the "realistic" art style (Think Cowboy Bebop / Ghost in the Shell / Black Lagoon).  You know... the one without things out of the ordinary.


5cm Per Second has some of my favorite art though.

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Re: Your favorite art style.
« Reply #3 on: January 01, 2010, 06:43:28 AM »
I prefer to see different art and animation styles, and I'll probably like it if it's obscure and original. While a deliberate "simple" style can be pretty cool, I think detailed drawings are in general much more attractive than the typical simple styles made with a regular to low budget funding.

I loved the art style in "Kaiba" for instance, which is what I'd extremely simplistic and (I think) low-budget. They had very few people working on it, if I recall. I also tend to like some well made short animations I also like SHAFT sometimes, like "Maria†Holic" and "Bakemonogatari." I'm not sure if they're very low-budget, but I'd also call them simplistic.

As for more detailed anime, I'd say "Mushishi" and "Byousoku 5cm" portrays things nicely. While I'm not the biggest fan of the style in "xxxHOLiC," I'd say that's pretty cool as well. Also, while I don't particularly like the typical Visual Art's/KEY style, I like it better than most other typical anime styles.

What I especially dislike is when a show uses static textures for clothes. I think SHAFT does this, e.g. in their version of "Negima!?," and I cringe whenever I see it. If you have no idea of what I'm talking about, it's when they for example place a pattern to colour an object, and when the object moves the pattern appears to be standing still.

I also dislike it when characters and objects that are animated don't match the shade of the background. I think this is a lot more common in American cartoon series than anime, however.

PS! Sorry for the lack of screen-shots, but I don't have all the anime readily available.

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Re: Your favorite art style.
« Reply #4 on: January 01, 2010, 08:25:16 AM »
Soul Eater's art style was very good I thought. It was a dark style but it was far from horror. Rather refreshing and lots of fun.
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Vampire Knight was another one that I liked art wise. I wouldn't use it for alot of series but for something like Vampire Knight its suited really well.
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While I'm not the biggest fan of the style in "xxxHOLiC," I'd say that's pretty cool as well.
From what I have seen I agree with you. The style is rather cool.

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Re: Your favorite art style.
« Reply #5 on: January 01, 2010, 10:01:36 AM »
I have always been a big fan of Katsuhiro Otomos style,his designs are really good as well as his panel work. Akira Toriyama is another just because his style is so unique. I could go on and on I have a lot of favourites in the industry but Otomo and Toriyama are probably my top pics.

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Re: Your favorite art style.
« Reply #6 on: January 01, 2010, 10:01:51 AM »
Last series I've seen, where the art and colouring really stood out, was Casshern Sins.

Otherwise I normally like bright watery stuff, like Honey and Clover.

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Re: Your favorite art style.
« Reply #7 on: January 01, 2010, 12:34:08 PM »
Anything that as frills and laces, but not with dark colours.
Though just blue and white stripes will win me over as well.
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Re: Your favorite art style.
« Reply #8 on: January 01, 2010, 01:06:10 PM »
I Would have to say the adaptations that were used for Strawberry Panic from Maki Chitose and Takumi Namuchi have to be some of my favorites.
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Re: Your favorite art style.
« Reply #9 on: January 01, 2010, 03:20:14 PM »
Well I have to +1 EF,especially those breath-taking scenes like the paper-airplane one.I do believe that was the first.The chain-Chihiro one was great too.
As for character desings,I have to go with CG.Needless also had an interesting one,similar with TTGL,but better used if you ask me.

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Re: Your favorite art style.
« Reply #10 on: January 01, 2010, 04:09:08 PM »
One of my favorites would be xxxHolic and Black Lagoon, the details and art are simply awesome.
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Re: Your favorite art style.
« Reply #11 on: January 01, 2010, 07:30:36 PM »
I'm with you that Macross Frontier has some of the most beautiful backgrounds from all the anime I have seen. I also liked Shangri-la and Basquash which are both very similar. Shangri-la had a background scene in the end with a bunch of tiny stained glass windows that was bloody incredible:
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I HATE the 'One Piece' style of artwork, and as far as non-animated artwork I hate Americanized anime. It looks enough like anime that they get to put it in the same category, but it's off just enough to bug the hell out of me.
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Offline shabutie

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Re: Your favorite art style.
« Reply #12 on: January 01, 2010, 09:38:38 PM »
I'll add Last Exile to my list...

I love the "old time" style

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Re: Your favorite art style.
« Reply #13 on: January 01, 2010, 10:46:38 PM »
I really can't stand any of the "cutesy" styles and traditions (oversized eyes, changing faces, huge expressions, etc.) For instance, I like the action sequences in Tenchi, but the rest of it gets old really quick.

I much prefer things more realistic but still stylized, like Hellsing, Berserk, Vampire Hunter D. Yoshitaka Amano is one of my all-time favorite artists in every respect, and I love most anything by Hayao Miyazaki.

I'll second Frontier as being awesome, as well as Robotech: The Shadow Chronicles. I'm excited to see what the new blending of hand-drawn and CGI will continue to produce, though what I'm most excited for is actually the game engine behind Borderlands. It basically bridges the gap between hand-drawn/cell-shading and motion. for those who haven't seen it yet:
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Those are all screenshots. Now imagine somebody swapping in an Anime style and using the game engine to make their own Anime for dirt cheap.

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Re: Your favorite art style.
« Reply #14 on: January 02, 2010, 01:19:04 AM »
mmm... i liked Loveless a lot, both the manga art and the anime..but I suppose I could just say I like Kouga Yun.
I'm also very fond of Yuki Kaori and wish more of her stuff was animated, but Angel Sanctuary was pretty cool.
I really liked the art in Ai no Kusabi, the Utena movie, Vampire Knight, Paradise Kiss, Pandora Hearts, Shounen Onmyouji and Samurai Champloo. In general, I like a variety of art styles and am usually pleased as long as the style fits the show/manga really well.

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Re: Your favorite art style.
« Reply #15 on: January 02, 2010, 01:49:23 AM »
I absolutely adored the art style and designs in Kaiba. A big part of it was just how different it was from most anime, it really contributed to the "out-there" nature of the universe.


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Re: Your favorite art style.
« Reply #16 on: January 02, 2010, 02:16:44 AM »
I love the art style of devilman/urotsukidoji 1 and 2/wicked city/girl with the third eye/desert punk.

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Re: Your favorite art style.
« Reply #17 on: January 02, 2010, 10:21:55 AM »
Most of CLAMPs stuff really although I prefer their manga art style to their anime one. I'm also enjoying the style of Eureka Seven more than I am the story right now (could always change though).

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Re: Your favorite art style.
« Reply #18 on: January 02, 2010, 04:04:12 PM »
Can't decide on favourite, but I liked the background work done on Academy City in both of Index/Railgun.
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Offline Kanashto

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Re: Your favorite art style.
« Reply #19 on: January 02, 2010, 10:56:23 PM »
I can't decide but one of the aspects of anime art I like is the old style sun-on-ocean/sea and it's shiny :]
I don't see it much anymore : /

This is from One Piece OVA.

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I also like Claymore's art, this is a favorite scene (the bgm also suited that scene very well XD).
I guess this qualifies for my favorite :]

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