Compose styles
Rather than blending styles toward a middle, this gives them roles. The first one carries the structure, the next comes in as the accent, and anything after that shows up in a single detail. Where they fight each other, 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 #fcf6eb, #cb5634, #181818 and admit one accent from #f7d52c, #ec4f8d, #43a9df.
Where they fight
These are already listed as related entries, 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
Produce four original images that take their structure from Anime Style (style, 1960s–) and their accent from Superflat (style, 2000s–). ## What to make Make the kind of thing Anime Style exists for: making a character's expression work with little information, or learning direction designed around constraint. Choose one subject and hold it across all four. ## Structure comes from Anime Style - 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 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. ## Accent comes from Superflat, used sparingly - Extreme flatness - Vivid color - Repeated characters - Commercial culture Let one material quality come from it: Even fills, vivid color including fluorescents, a glossy finish. ## Colour and feeling Build the ground on #fcf6eb, carry the structure in #cb5634 and #181818, and let a single accent come from #43a9df. These are read off real works, so a direction rather than a fixed palette. Feeling to carry: play, intimacy, technique, rebellion, exhilaration. ## What goes wrong - 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. ## Across the four Keep the roles fixed in all four. Vary the framing, the scale and the arrangement so the set shows what this pairing can do rather than four versions of one picture. ## Constraints - Do not imitate, reference or name any specific artist, studio, brand, character or copyrighted work. - Do not reproduce the composition of an existing work. - Produce original compositions 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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