Has this kind of combo ever worked out without feeling cheap or unnecessary? The one artist I know that managed to make it feel right is Adam Warren
>>7958881It can be hard to tell when something is in 'anime style'/heavily influenced by anime, or if it was just a style that was naturally landed upon by the artist with no influence from Japanese media. There's a lot of stuff that look quite anime-ish, even from the past well before anime as we know it.Anyway, I'm pretty sure Elf Quest was heavily influenced by manga, I believe I've heard a few talk about the creator's love for manga and wanting to make something like that, and I can see it in the way it's styled. Granted, it's still very much a western interpretation of artstyle.
>>7958887when does something look western and when does something look (intentionally or unintentionally) "somewhat anime-ish" if the artist still wants a cartoonish but still realistically proportioned and detailed aesthetic in comics?
>>7958881Some French comics and cartoons pull it off very well.The new Avatar movie also did the aesthetic good
retrofitting "big eyes small nose/mouth" onto "anime" will never not make me mad
>>7958896Mezieres and Christin once jokingly claimed to have invented manga with the super pocket pilote format which was basically tankobon. And Laureline is basically an anime girl lol. (and there's literally a Valerian anime)Valerian looks sort of anime-esque, I suppose it's the stylized characters with detailed environments. Manga often has very stylized characters with pretty detailed backgrounds, guns and cars and other things. while Marvel house style was sort of evenly detailed and cartooned if that makes sense. cape pamphlets were still cartoons, not that far from Archie, but always had sort of naturalistic anatomy and stuff. It's like more realistic and more cartoony than manga at once. The inking styles were probably a difference because manga is most often black and white while in the old days US comics were designed for big blocks of colour on absorbent newsprint. Euro comics have so much variation there's never been a stereotyped "BD" style. the real difference in manga is not the drawing itself or big eyed girls because there's more variation in Japan and in the West than between them. The storytelling sensibilities and the format are the real difference. Ideas are different, like motion, speed lines vs motion lines, etc.
>>7959011>retrofitting "big eyes small nose/mouth" onto "anime" will never not make me madThis.Fuck weebs.
