Anime Anime art styles quickly changing

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  1. Nightraid

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    I was about 10 when I first saw anime. Anyone remember Saturday Anime of the Sci Fi channel about 5 or 6 years ago? I think it was Dirty Pair Flash. Anyway, it was the kind of anime where everyone had big eyes, small noses and mouths and multi-colored hair. Basicly, the standard art style for anime, and of course, it was the art style I grew to love. Over the past year, I've been putting an effort to expand my anime palate, growing an dvd and manga collection, importing and so on, however, I've noticed something about a lot of the newer animes. Artists are shifting away from the big eyed, crazy haired anime and are leaning towards a more realistic kind. The kind where the heads aren't geometric, but everything is proportional to what a real human being might like. And I fear this. Is the anime style I've grown to love slowly fadding away? :sad: :sad: :sad:
     
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  2. Alucard666

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    ive noticed it too, i like the older style anime
     
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  3. Bloodberry

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    actually, that does depend largely on the artists drawing styles. especially if it's based on a manga work. remember, not ever artist in japan draws with the big eyes/small nose template *^-^*
     
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  4. Izzy

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    No, there are a LOT of anime that still follow the style that you like. They're just also going back to the roots of it, like the REALLY old school anime too...where they had big 80's hair and proportionate (for the most part) bodies. I, for one, like the newer realism for certain series. The range of motion that you see for those kinds of animated characters look really good, and it draws ME in more, since they seem more real, in a very surreal way. But, I'm also a big fan of the huge eyes, too. Why? Well, they're cuter that way. :D

    As for anime like one or the other...
    "realism":
    RahXephon
    Bebop
    Digimon Movies (Trust me! Especially the fourth one...)

    Big Eye:
    Onegai Teacher
    Ai Yori Aoshi
    Chobits
     
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    Izzy, Jan 28, 2003
  5. That guy!

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    I've even noticed this in North American animation, as the times are changing the animation style is becoming more detailed... especially with the usage of computers now, it is easier to make a cartoon or anime that looks better.

    And the style has changed as well, in the 80's a lot of anime's had the "Galaxy Express 999" look to it.. and I think that some artists revolutionized the style to make it look the way it is today, such as Akira Toriyama (correct me if I'm wrong!).

    It depends on the mood of the series as well, a more comedy oriented anime would have the super deformed looking characters. And serious/action animes would be a bit more realistic...
     
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