Anime Animation Style

[Guest klrabbit]

I am currently watching [COLOR=DarkRed]Samaui 7 [/COLOR]and the animation style is quite different than, other anime I have seen like [COLOR=Green]Inuyasha and Cowboy Bebop[/COLOR]. Samauri 7 reminds me of watercolor painting. Are there other anime made in the same style?. Does the style of animation and how well its done make a difference or does a good storyline or fun characters make up for bad animation. In terms of how well the animation was done whats your favorite series or anime movie. ;)

[Guest Nara Kai]

Did you mean Samurai 7? Yes, it does look like watercolour painting and I don't think that there are other anime made in a same style. The anime seems messed up with 3 dimension characters, like those robots in the anime, but I like it how they design the characters and their clothing. The storyline seems to be a bit messed up too.

[Dagger]

[b]Gankutsuou[/b] leaps to mind as an anime with an unusual animation style (it might be more fair, in this and most other cases, to say "art style" instead, though). The characters' clothes and hair are depicted with complex, flat textures. Oddly, this flatness works really well with the rich 3D backgrounds and objects found throughout the show. It's a really gorgeous-looking production, but some find its visuals overwhelming.

And while we're talking about GONZO anime, [b]Red Garden[/b] also bears mentioning. Its unique character designs (the characters actually have noses and lips!) are animated solidly. The four main characters' hair is done with flat gradients, kind of like in Gankutsuou, but more other characters seem to have regularly shaded hair. I'd have to watch another episode to be sure of that, though.

[url=http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/people.php?id=251][u]Shichiro Kobayashi[/u][/url] is an art director whose work looks quite distinctive. His backgrounds tend to use paler colours and to look somewhat stylized; they aren't Impressionistic, but perhaps a little reminiscent of it. I would point to Loveless, Revolutionary Girl Utena, Melody of Oblivion, Asatte no Houkou and Windy Tales as good examples of this.

Just about anything directed by [url=http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/people.php?id=1610][u]Akiyuki Shinbo[/u][/url] will have some interesting directing choices. He loves weird camera angles, dark/heavy blocks of shading, stained glass and... well, I don't even know how to describe it, but once you've seen a couple of his shows, it's pretty easy to pick out his work. He goes especially wild in Soul Taker and Le Portrait de Petite Cossette.

~Dagger~

[Guest Nara Kai]

So far, the style of animation that I like is a colourful anime such as Naruto, CCS and Tsubasa. Although I didn't watch them really much but they're very creative at doing animation, anime characters, their outfits and so on. But my favorite anime is still Dragonball/Z/GT and Shaman king because I like their characters. FMA is a good anime too because of the storyline~