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ive been browsing the various pictures of 40k stuff on the internet, and the artwork looks really badass; but id really like to see what some of the characters would look like animated in an anime style. what do you guys think? you think that would that be something that might be interesting to see?
I don't think we need anime 40k. There's plenty of stuff like that on DeviantArt or whatever if you really want to look for it. GW's going to stick to the handful of styles they have since they illustrate the universe they want to portray the best.
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.
Lynata wrote: 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.
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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?
Edit: to answer the OP, 40k's distinctive line style is one of fairly naturalistic artwork (in deliberate and effective contrast with its ridiculously OTT content and imagery), in the traditions of Arthur Rackham, Jean-Léon Gérôme, Caspar David Friedrich and the PRB - not-uncoincidentally commonly-cited influences on Metal Hurlant and 2000AD - so I really can't picture the typical manga style fitting very well. 40k has borrowed from Japanese fads - Adeptus Titanicus was essentially an attempt to cash in on the popularity of mecha cartoons - but it's always done so through a thoroughly Europeanised lens.
Moreover, faux-manga stylings are very popular right now in mainstream western cartoons and comic books (and even in wargames and RPGs, look at Warmachine and D&D 3 and onward) but won't remain that way forever. GW's art style has developed from their early days, but has remained distinctively their own, without chasing fashionable trends - a business decision which would seem to have paid-off handsomely.
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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.
As a fan of many different genres I would have to say I would love seeing more of the artwork. Every artist brings something different to the table and to those who dont believe anime can do "grimdark" justice. well, I will just have to disagree there.
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DeffDred wrote: Though I'd rather not see anime-like art in codexs and rulebooks I believe it's the only way to depict the universe in a movie setting.
You can have a realistic animation style without being anime. The art style from the comic books would lend itself well to animation, as long as the shading was simplified.
Von Chogg wrote: Anime is always depicted as cute and sexy, which has no place at all in the grimdark of 40k.. or warhammer in general...
Not always. Some anime are very dark, and they don't tend to all be built around sexy schoolgirls and barely-there space-bikinis. I think anime-style fanart for 40k is fine, but I agree that GW shouldn't go that direction, and they never will. There are so many cool art styles out there though, and I like seeing 40k through all those different lenses. Whether it's something realistic:
Something more stylized:
Or something truly awful:
I always find it interesting to see different peoples' interpretations of the universe.
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.
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