Anime Style
アニメ絵 / 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.
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
Dictionary entry
- Best used for
- Making a character's expression work with little information · Learning direction designed around constraint
- Type
- Match subtitles and logotype to the weight of the contour line.
- Composition
- Fix the composition of the held drawing first and concentrate movement at the key points.
- Material
- Paint in two step shading and fields of limited saturation.
- Caution
- 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.
- Further study
- The conventions born from the frame count limits of television / The move from cel painting to digital coloring / Its spread into drawing styles abroad