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I like anime 40k, I just wouldn't want to see it in GW rulebooks. It would ultimately take away from the Grim Darkness™, which (to me) is a huge part of what makes the setting so unique.

Comics and fan-art on the other hand? Sure thing, fire away. But I have to say, I think the best in comic style was the graphic novel Daemonifuge. It seemed like a very good hybrid between "traditional" cartoon art and 40k's gloom.

English Assassin wrote:Particularly interesting as a fairly early example of digital colouring (well, digital shading, I suppose). If you have the comic to hand, could you tell me to whom the colouring's credited?

Sadly, the credits don't distinguish between who drew the lines and who did the colours; it just says "artists". I'd hope that whoever did the colours is included there, though. Credited people are:
Chris Quilliams
Karl Richardson
Tiernen Trevallion
Kev Walker

And yeah, the graphic novel's visual style is pretty amazing, even unique (at least I have never seen anything like it so far). An intrigueing mixture of CGI (vehicles, background, colours) and drawn stuff (people, immediate environments), everything in shades of grey to keep a dark atmosphere. Though the latter is apparently relatively common in the graphic novel business once you move away from fancy colourful superhero comics, from what I've heard.

Brother SRM wrote:Not always. Some anime are very dark, and they don't tend to all be built around sexy schoolgirls and barely-there space-bikinis.

QFT. It pains me to see how many people just throw it all together, seemingly unaware of the various stylistic directions that exist.
It's as if I'd say that impressionism were the same as expressionism because it's all "Western art". I fear the cliché will never die though.

Brother SRM wrote:Something more stylized

Speaking of Aerion's unique style of 40k drawings ...
http://www.scribd.com/doc/55346463/warhammer-40k-Farewell-Sister

Lt.Soundwave wrote:I personally think cowboy bebops artists would lend itself to 40k pretty well, or the Ghost in the shell movie animators.

Ehh, not sure about Cowboy Bebop, but GitS I could see work. Are you referring to the original movie or Solid State Society?

Another suggestion I'd throw in for a 40k anime movie team would be the people who made Ergo Proxy: