Jul. 29th, 2024

kradeelav: Zihark, FE10 (fe)
neat thing about drawing in a very "jp animation' focused/studied style is you start realizing how many of the stylistic quirks were purely built off on how to make the images faster to draw but still easy to read. *(i'm calling it that instead of anime b/c the latter has a broader stylistic/genre connotation.)

so many visual and perspective shortcuts that have evolved into its own dialects (anime noses, the anime "hair vents", on and on.)

chira and i have talked about it before how that animation's all about that speed and an emotional kinetic quality in addition, actually. you can see a lot of artists who are inspired by "anime", sure. (I'm not saying that negatively, just switching back to the broader term). but they are very distinct from the people/artists who obsess over sakuga animation. it can be hard to tell if you haven't tried to animate before but when you do, you start automatically paying attention to the physics and weight of everything. clothes, hair in the breeze and how it clumps, etc. proportions in a room and how you'd flatten it in an efficient way.

i think both (speed and that immediate kinetic quality) in jp animation is what really appealed to me since the beginning.... i'll confess that comic art always felt a little flat to me and never quite so focused on the subtleties of body language as i prefer, even if it's only in the richness of 3D movement. frankly most comic art/illustration always felt a little flat to me. consistently, the most emotionally moving stories to me are ones i've found in video-games and 2D animation.  there's a marriage of stylistic exaggeration and flexibility allowed (more so than live-action), but the nuanced subtleties of animation are still tightly keyed on that body language.

(I wonder about my preference towards body language too, actually. is it my mind over-compensating since my hearing's shit? tied in with the kink junk since i've always felt like "seeing" power dynamics was unlocking a force multiplier of noticing everything? something else or all of the above?) 
kradeelav: Mordecai, FE9 (sleepyboi)
ngl i love hanging out in my mil-shitpost-adjacent server because there's at least two or three dudes who are reliably sending updates from [local hot spot] (and you can tell it's remarkably accurate, via contextual clues, in a channer way).

but then on the flip side you start worrying about your dudes when shit does go down. ugh.

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