You guys all know that animesue American shows look different than Japanese anime, you're just being difficult and argumentative.
If they didn't have differences, we all wouldn't be posting in this thread right now and bringing up shows such as Ben 10, Teen Titans, Martin Mystery, etc.
And the differences automatically makes a show look bad?
Avatar has proven to be an excellent show with a good story, drawing accurate influences from various East Asian and Inuit cultures, and has animation that widely received to be good, drawing influences from Hayao Miyazaki, yet still manages to look vastly different in order to separate it from that type of animation. Unless you're going to tell me
that is a reason to say it has terrible drawings too. Many animesque shows such as amerime and franime just
happen to be terrible shows in the first place.
Most of the shows previously mentioned in this thread aren't even made in America, anyway. Really doesn't show any animation savvy when the automatic assumption is that "these shows in America were either from Japan or made here."
My views simply put are:
American cartoons and Japanese anime look different.
American cartoons look awful when they try to apply popular Japanese anime concepts to them.
That statement is faulty because some of the very top-notched anime have vastly different art styles than your generic everyday anime. Does that mean the art style is bad because it's different? Some of these anime even take in western influences and show various signs of cultural mixing.
They do it better because it's Japan? It's okay for Japan to market "cool things from the west" in their shows, but it's not okay for America to market "cool things from Japan" in
their shows?
My first impression would be that it's from a Japanese manga. And if it's not, then it's definitely stylized as one.
Oh!...in my opinion.
It's Korean manhwa. I have dozens of pictures from Chinese manhua as well. Same damn spelling in all three languages (漫画), but despite the similarities, Japanese manga, Korean manhwa, and Chinese manhua have different histories of their own and their own styles. It's funny, because of manga's better popularity worldwide, people usually mistake the last two mediums as mere imitations (hell, even the spell checker on Firefox didn't mark the word manga wrong). Admittedly, in recent years, both have taken some influence from Japanese manga, but they still have a consistent distinctive style that makes it easy to tell them apart from Japanese manga... much like amerime and franime.
Now are you going to say that only Asians can draw "anime" while other ethnic groups can't?
Also, saying "IT IS IN MY OPINION" in the
middle of an argument is one of the cheapest getaway tricks on the internet, but let's not get into that.
American's make excellent animesque shows.
Epic: Avatar and The Boondocks Batman TAS.
Eh? You think Bruce Timm's animation looks like it was inspired by anime? The main reason much of the fan dumb don't really dig the Teen Titans animation and other DC cartoons is because it's
not like Bruce Timm's animation...
Good: Teen Titans, Xiaolin Showdown, and Invader Zim. (Also Three Delivery depending on taste.)
Invader Zim? I consider that to have a completely different (yet awesome art style) compared to anime, but okay.
Perfected it? Ha! Anime can't compare to drawn Disney Flicks sorry. They just further stylized it to make it easier to draw.
While it's technically true that Disney inspired some of the earliest mangaka (Osamu Tezuka) and heavily influenced some of the very anime films by Toei... we have to remember that some other anime, mostly the recent ones, barely even look like any of Tezuka's works. While one defining characteristic in most anime are the eyes, which are drawn big and colorful to show emotion (obviously stemming from Disney), even the ones that draw from that influence look vastly different than anything produced by Disney.
Again, this does not mean that Disney films look bad compared to anime. Disney films generally look very good and have high quality animation.
However, I personally find myself enjoying stuff from certain Japanese animation directors (such as Kondou Yoshifumi) and Japanese animation studios (such as Studio Ghibli and Tatsunoko Pro.) much more than anything produced by Disney.
I also wouldn't say that anime is easier to draw. The creators of Teen Titans
did say they chose for an anime-like style to make it easier for the artists, but the main reason I never really liked TT's animation quality is not because of the anime-like style, it's because they often opt for cheap shortcuts in the animation by using the "blurry motion" effect in place of actual character movement or
overusing the chibi art during comical scenes... which is probably what they meant by making it "easier".
Their overuse of anime expressions got kind of annoying too. It might be because at that time, I was more used to JLU's snarky humor compared to TT's slapstick humor, I dunno. I have problems with the animation, but not because it's an "imitation anime". The show itself isn't terrible, however.
The majority of popular anime is kid friendly such as Naruto, Bleach, and One Piece. It's always been marketed that way with these shows.
Exactly! Eiichiro Oda's artwork isn't exactly the most "non-kid friendly" and "mature" thing out there. I do not get how you can make a drawing "kid friendly" by making it more American, especially when there's plenty of light artwork out there in Japan.
Similarly to the above poster, I've come across some pretty kiddy-looking
hentai.
But anything that has Jackie Chan in it is usually bound to be hilarious and awesome. /BIASED
Not his American movies. /BIASED