How Popular Is Anime Style Here?

[Goldsickle]

For the audience, does having Japanese anime style in movies and games increase your chances of watching them or trying them out?

As for the contributors, do you use anime style for your works or hire artists who draw anime style?

The drawing I inserted below is some character I designed if I wanted to make a side-scrolling shooter.

[M-Vero]

It's pretty hit and miss
some people like it, some don't
and some have an irrational hate for it to the extent that it's just silly.

[Ludic]

At 6/30/12 05:29 PM, Goldsickle wrote: For the audience, does having Japanese anime style in movies and games increase your chances of watching them or trying them out?

No it doesn't. Quite the opposite in fact, typically Asian designs are really illogical. They might look cool but would never work in that environment etc. Doesn't apply to all asian games, of course.

[ImpendingRiot]

At 6/30/12 05:41 PM, M-Vero wrote: It's pretty hit and miss
some people like it, some don't
and some have an irrational hate for it to the extent that it's just silly.

The problem with anime style is saturation. There's lots of it, and like anything that there's a lot of, most of it is bad. I also think it cripples a lot of kids just starting out. It's great that it gives them a desire to draw, but that's all they draw. And they draw it bad. And they never learn. They just post their pointy-chinned MS paint anime chick drawings or a dude with a stupidly big sword and they call it a day.

With that said, if it's executed well, I'm all for it. Like anything executed well.

[EnactJudo]

anime dictates the only things that are worth watching, every thing else practically earns a zero with my NG account.

[PMMurphy]

as long as you follow the fundamentals of art, you should be fine sharing your work anywhere.

[PatBest22]

I suppose it mostly depends on WHAT you draw using anime style. As ImpendingRiot said, if all you do is the same crap that's been done over and over in anime, like the kind of stuff you get from going through the front page of deviantart for about five minutes, it won't get you much love except from people who can't draw and find anything amazing ( Like basically everyone on my facebook, I post my stuff on facebook so they all go WAW, and then post it on newgrounds to get actual useful feedback ).
My drawings, for example, tend to resemble anime, or are entirely anime, yet people, from what I understand of the feedback, like the way I've treated it and find my style interesting.

[gradenator]

Shit. Anime is crap without color. Even with color it turns out generic and uninteresting. You gotta go to great fucking impossible lengths to make anime likable anywhere and you probably already know that. Blow peoples minds as opposed to boring them with shit they see everywhere already. Go nuts, forgo stiffness and anything you feel is comfortable/conventional

[M-Maher]

At 6/30/12 05:29 PM, Goldsickle wrote: As for the contributors, do you use anime style for your works or hire artists who draw anime style?

I dabble in it but i don't linger in it for long, that said, I know a guy who was hired by Marvel to do a Galacta one off comic, his name was Elsevilla , considering, there is a definite market, a niche market for anime illustration in the west.

[XwaynecoltX]

Hmm not sure exactly but theres alot of it on here and it seems pretty popular so you would probably come up big with some.

~X~

[PigeonOnAStick]

At 7/1/12 06:32 PM, XwaynecoltX wrote: Hmm not sure exactly but theres alot of it on here and it seems pretty popular so you would probably come up big with some.
~X~

thanks wayne we appreciate your input

[lovingthedark]

At 6/30/12 05:29 PM, Goldsickle wrote: For the audience, does having Japanese anime style in movies and games increase your chances of watching them or trying them out?

No, quite the opposite. I think it's sad that there's so many artists just copy the same style rather than coming up with something original. Plus, it's a bad crutch for beginning artists- they never learn proper anatomy. However, like Riot said, if it's done well I can respect it. It is very very rarely well done.

[Ramatsu]

At 7/2/12 02:01 PM, lovingthedark wrote:

At 6/30/12 05:29 PM, Goldsickle wrote: For the audience, does having Japanese anime style in movies and games increase your chances of watching them or trying them out?

No, quite the opposite. I think it's sad that there's so many artists just copy the same style rather than coming up with something original. Plus, it's a bad crutch for beginning artists- they never learn proper anatomy. However, like Riot said, if it's done well I can respect it. It is very very rarely well done.

Oh no! I'm a cripple! I've been drawing anime ever since I really got into drawing in 8th grade. Its a slow process but I'll probably grow out of it. But honestly for me drawing anime I don't watch much of any, or games. It actually decreases the chance for me, I haven't really put my finger on why but I dont really care to know. The art though I love it! It inspires me looking at other great artists that work in the anime style and anime influenced style.

[Aigis]

I think it's a bit boring for artists to just copy other people, and not try and carve out their own unique approach to art.

This doesn't just apply to anime, but anime seems to be the most widespread form of it.

[JKR]

At 7/3/12 03:37 AM, Aigis wrote: I think it's a bit boring for artists to just copy other people, and not try and carve out their own unique approach to art.

This doesn't just apply to anime, but anime seems to be the most widespread form of it.

I agree with this. Anime is design that's already been figured out. More interesting is design that is newly discovered. All the hard work has been done for you with Anime, leaving little to do but copy what another artist has done.