Building Momentum and Anime Style
Still doing assignments
STILL one of the best tracks ever ---> [link]
Ok, first up: epic thanks to those who responded to the survey in the last journal. It's hugely appreciated. Will let you know what happens with it, possibly in the form of another Design Persona next semester.
Ugh, not really getting anywhere on this Design and Research thing, but want it out of my hair by tonight... *insert mumbling here - stupid little three-thousand word such and such getting in the way of more pressing matters...*
Anyway, stuff happening in my life: not much.
Met up with
on sunday which was cool. He was down from up the coast for Macross Con (mate, I know you're reading this: pics). Annoyingly I was working the day that was on and so couldn't go. However we did manage to catch up over breakfast and discuss all things anime, complain about the politicians and generally piss-fart around... all the good stuff.Also had to buy a new car battery for the Alfetta. I think it's been going for awhile, but the cold mornings have killed it. After failing to roll-start and needing to get a jump form the neighbours one morning, I bit the bullet and shelled out my $150 for a new one. I've yet to have to do a cold morning start though, so... fingers crossed. EDIT Yay! It works! Pity the alternator's not big enough to run lights, wipers, indicators and fans at the same time though... END EDIT
On The Anime Style
So, I tried throwing a few illustrations up on Dannychoo.com for feedback... more out of interests sake than anything. One of the comments I got back was that it "didn't look like anime", which oddly made me quite happy
I figure that if I'm getting responses like that back then I must be doing something right in developing my own style... even if I've no idea what it is or how I got there.Now I still think I draw in an anime/manga style, but it got me thinking: what is the "anime style"... to you? Because to be totally honest I'm not really sure anymore. I know I'll recognise something as "anime/manga", but honestly couldn't put it into words.
Anyway, I'm going to make another plunger of coffee and try and build up some momentum on this Design and Research report.
Ciao
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Clubs, the ones that still seem to do stuff:
Tired
Cheers mate!
Devious Comments
"I'm not going to watch that because it's not ( fill in your favorite style of illustrating here )."
That's just short changing yourself.
Get that essay thing done and then you can go out and play!
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Cleverly disquised as a responsible adult.
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The probability of being watched is directly proportional to the stupidity of the act.
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"the power of a man's mind is directly proportional to the quantity of coffee he drinks." - Sir James Macintosh
"Way too much coffee. But if it weren't for the coffee, I'd have no identifiable personality whatsoever." - David Letterman
I'd rather say yours is kinda like a hybrid, in which is made of originality
I kinda envy you for having the guts to post your pieces there.
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A proud member of Tension Academy and still doesn't belong to any doujin circle (TTATT )
As for your style, I'd say it's definitely inspired by anime, but you've definitely put your own spin on it to make it distinctive and original.
I don't know about you, but I find categorizing styles to be very annoying. I'll go into something a little different here. Like if I drew a lineart of a mech just by itself without any characters or anything in the drawing. Well then, what category does that go into? It'd be impossible to tell if it would fit into a manga universe or a more "western" styled one, since no characters are present in the image. This bothers the hell out of me.
Maybe I'm just pissed off at dA's stupid categorization system.
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If you strike me down, I shall become more powerful than you can possibly imagine.
All animes are different, but I guess if you want me to the style with the "super anime" characteristics, it would be a simplified face, but large shiny eyes, hair that appears to be in one shiny piece (most likely some unnatural color), elongated limbs, large heads, hands and feet.
Sometimes the style looks ok at some level, but when it's closer to "super anime" it gets a little ridiculous.
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KOOL CLUBS:
~JuJi-vs-Chef ~Telos-Versus-Dani *SHARK-ARMY ~KILLERWHALE-ARMY
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"Designers think everything done by someone else is awful, and that they could do it better themselves, which explains why I designed my own living room carpet, I suppose." - Chris Bangle
Cheers much for filling that thing out by the way
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"Designers think everything done by someone else is awful, and that they could do it better themselves, which explains why I designed my own living room carpet, I suppose." - Chris Bangle
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new, improved, and back from japan!
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