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Showing posts with label anime movies. Show all posts
Showing posts with label anime movies. Show all posts
Thursday, April 30, 2009
Wednesday, April 29, 2009
make your own anime character
So, you want to create your own anime character, right? Thankfully, it's not too difficult a task to accomplish. You need to remember, though, that creating your own anime character is far more than simply crafting an image for that character.
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The first thing you should do is to create a stencil drawing of what you want your character to look like. Write some notes on it for any special abilities or features of this character, and refine as needed.
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Once you have a basic sketch drawn, you need to create a storyline for this character to be in. It's not all about the drawing aspect, the storyline is important as well for an anime character. Anime characters have little purpose without a back story to go with them.
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Now you need to decide whether you want to make your character by hand or on the computer. Unless you have substantial art skills, it's more than likely that you'll want to create your character on the computer. If that's the case, take a look at http://www.kongregate.com/games/sdanond/anime-character-generator-female-version.
Step 4
Use the link to Kongregate.com to finish your character. Try to post your character along with the backstory on anime forums, as getting critiques is the best way to advance your own skills. Most importantly, have fun!
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In the 1930s the Japanese government began enforcing cultural nationalism. This also lead to a strict censorship and control of published media. Many animators were urged to produce animations which enforced the Japanese spirit and national affiliation. The movies were shown in News-Cinemas as an opinion-forming limbering filler and were very famous, in fact (after Japan had its own support of movie material through the newly-founded Fujifilm) News-Cinemas boomed and together with it the animation industry reached a peak in officially shown movies. At that time many small studios were closed or fused to bigger studios until only three big studios remained on the broad market.
Disney had a strong influence on the animators at that time, but due to commercial issues Japanese animations at that time didn't have a high production standard, but were rather pale imitations of Disney productions (repeating scenes and gags, after recording of sound and so on). Disney also used sound film very early but that was too expensive for most Japanese studios until the mid 30s.
Until the 30s the Japanese movie industry was dominated by the cinemas, who commissioned animations from small studios or single animators. Due to the fusing and enlarging of animation studios bigger projects were possible, but the necessary money didn't come from the Monbusho or a big cinema combine. Many animations were instead commissioned by the military, showing the sly, quick Japanese people winning against enemy forces.
In 1941 Princess Iron Fan would become the first Asian animation of notable length ever made in China. It was followed by Japan's Momotaro's Divine Sea Warriors in 1945. Due to economic factors, it would be Japan which later emerged with the most readily available resources to continue expanding the industry.
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The history of anime begins at the start of the 20th century, when Japanese filmmakers experimented with the animation techniques that were being explored in the West. During the 1970s, anime developed further, separating itself from its Western roots, and developing unique genres such as the mecha genre and its Super Robot subgenre. Notable shows in this period include Lupin III and Mazinger Z. During this period several filmmakers became famous, especially Hayao Miyazaki and Mamoru Oshii.
Unlike America, where live-action shows and movies have generous budgets, the live-action industry in Japan is a small market and suffered from budgeting and location restrictions. The varied use of animation allowed artists to create settings that did not look like anything at all.
In the 1980s, anime was accepted in the mainstream in Japan, and experienced a boom in production. The rise of the Gundam and Macross Real Robot space opera franchises and the beginnings of Rumiko Takahashi's career began in this decade. The cyberpunk film Akira set records in 1988 for the production costs of an anime film and went on to become a cult success worldwide (later in 2004, the same creators produced Steamboy, the most expensive anime film). The Super Dimension Fortress Macross also became a worldwide success after being adapted as part of Robotech, and Megazone 23 also gained recognition in the West after it was adapted as Robotech: The Movie.
In the 1990s and 2000s, anime series such as Dragon Ball Z, Pokémon, Sailor Moon and the postcyberpunk film Ghost in the Shell became worldwide successes, while other anime series such as Gundam, Macross, Neon Genesis Evangelion and Cowboy Bebop were popular in Japan and attracted attention from the West. A number of anime-influenced animations have been produced in the West, and the growth of the internet also led to the rise of fansubbed anime. Spirited Away shared the first prize at the 2002 Berlin Film Festival and won the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature in 2003, while Innocence: Ghost in the Shell was featured at the 2004 Cannes Film Festival.
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