Compose two styles
Rather than blending two styles into a middle, this assigns them roles: one carries the structure, the other appears as an accent. Where the two fight, it says so before you start.
How to divide the work
- Composition
- Follow Anime Style: Fix the composition of the held drawing first and concentrate movement at the key points.
- Type
- Set in Anime Style's manner (Match subtitles and logotype to the weight of the contour line.), and let Limited Animation's lettering (Titles and effect lettering composed as held frames, not as overlays) appear only where you want the eye to catch.
- Material
- Ground in Anime Style's material (Paint in two step shading and fields of limited saturation.); bring in exactly one thing from Limited Animation (Separate mouths and eyes as reusable parts for repeated cycles).
- Colour
- Build on #e9e6dd, #67635d, #171615 and admit one accent from #e9e6dd, #67635d, #171615.
Where they fight
- Both belong to Animation Techniques, so the difference is small. Push the roles further apart than feels comfortable.
Caution
- Anime Style The size of the eyes is not the style. The point is that it was designed as an answer to a limit on the number of drawings.
- Limited Animation Do not read few drawings as laziness, and look at the design that turned the limit into style. When holds are chosen by budget rather than by staging, the result only looks underanimated.
Image prompt
An original image that takes its structure from Anime Style (Style, 1960s–) and its accent from Limited Animation (Technique, 1940s–). Structural cues: Eyes and nose placed as signs; Contour lines of even weight; Painting that splits shading into two steps; Held drawings used together with speed lines. Accent cues, used sparingly: Few in-betweens; Held frames put to work; Partial animation; Stylized movement. Composition: Fix the composition of the held drawing first and concentrate movement at the key points.. Type and lettering: Match subtitles and logotype to the weight of the contour line.. Let one material quality come from the second style: Separate mouths and eyes as reusable parts for repeated cycles. Mood: Play, Intimacy, Technology, Nostalgia. Color: build on #e9e6dd, #67635d, #171615 with a single accent drawn from #e9e6dd, #67635d, #171615. Constraints: do not imitate, reference or name any specific artist, studio, brand, character or copyrighted work. Produce an original composition in the general period languages described above.
Related entries
- Anime Style 1960s– / Style / Animation Techniques
The drawing conventions Japanese television animation accumulated in order to deliver the most information from the fewest drawings. A unified, sign like face, clarity of contour, and speed produced by held drawings and effects have influenced drawing styles around the world.
- Limited Animation 1940s– / Technique / Animation Techniques
Deliberately reduces the number of drawings, using held frames, repeats and partial movement as style. UPA established it as an aesthetic; television and Japanese commercial animation grew it into grammars of their own.
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