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 Superflat's lettering (Letters share the drawing outline and sit flat without shadow) 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 Superflat (Even fills, vivid color including fluorescents, a glossy finish).
- Colour
- Build on #e9e6dd, #67635d, #171615 and admit one accent from #f7d52c, #ec4f8d, #43a9df.
Where they fight
These two are already listed as related, so the join should come easily.
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.
- Superflat Lining up cute symbols drops the argument that set high art against consumer culture, and all that remains is product illustration.
Image prompt
An original image that takes its structure from Anime Style (Style, 1960s–) and its accent from Superflat (Style, 2000s–). 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: Extreme flatness; Vivid color; Repeated characters; Commercial culture. 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: Even fills, vivid color including fluorescents, a glossy finish. Mood: Play, Intimacy, Technology, Rebellion, Exhilaration. Color: build on #e9e6dd, #67635d, #171615 with a single accent drawn from #f7d52c, #ec4f8d, #43a9df. 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.
- Superflat 2000s– / Style / Japanese Postwar Avant-garde
Juxtaposes anime, manga, advertising and traditional painting on one flat plane, questioning the border of high art and consumer culture.
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