Toradora! Photoshop Anime

I don't care its still my favorite anime. In fact i like even more for having real settings.

How nice, Taiga lives in my hometown...now I know where to look. She's turning this anime into shit & she must pay. I kinda like the Kannagi scenes better. Its always great to see the places you've been to in an anime.

In before "I've had enough of these comparison shots, Artefact, don't you have anything better to post."

Also, I prefer the 2D renditions of certain places to their 3D counter-parts =3=

Is this a stroke of lazyness, or an overkilled attempt at animators wanting fans to go "omg I know where that is!"?

I fail to see what the big deal is about all of these, though. So they look to real life to depict a scene. Your point? I'd actually expect someone who's, for example, making an anime taking place in Tokyo to actually look at Tokyo as references for scenery. Now if something's way out of place, then sure, have issue with it, but seriously, how do you plagiarize real life? Next thing you know? "Oh, that person was drawn as a human! It must be plagiarism!"

Now then, outright tracing I'd not have an issue with in terms of plagiarism, but WOULD have an issue with in terms of sheer laziness. You can use it as reference, sure, but if you freaking trace it? That's just lazy.

I know perspective, i have studied it for more than 10 years, and if the post implies what i think, that photos have been traced, i think is unfair.

it seems in order to make this backgrounds pictures have been indeed taken "as reference" in order
to have all the detail they have, but actual backgrounds have been rendered by hand and not traced over,

Why i affirm this:

if they had been traced over the visual mistakes produced by the curvature of the earth would appear, an instead i see all architectural elements to allign quite nicely with the imaginary lines, , that converge in the vanishing point. (one has to draw when using perspective,which proves perpectives rules aren't all that precise and don't reflect rality just take a look at M.C. Escher drawings)

just take a look at the 2nd photo in it the curvature i talk about is quite obvious, while in the rendered background the elements look more alligned,
straight lines rather than curves.

Slowly, slowly, the hidebound otaku conservatives will come to understand that the "Photoshopped backgrounds" are not a crime, but sometimes excellent. If it really makes the process cheaper, we will see more and more of it.

I myself think it's a great and effective way for BG's. It brings a sense of reality to the audience and connection. Showing that these characters are in a real world, in real world situations....supposedly.

I think the issue of whether not it's bad may depend on who reads the articles. Adding the word photoshop anime rubs me the wrong way personally. I would prefer the latter, "photographic reference".

Whether they do trace over it or not, I can see why they would. The perspective, details and angles on some of the shows are rather intricate. My assumption is based on time and budget, that would be the most logical sense of execution. Given these BG's.

all artists use reference photos. doenst make it a shop. sarcasm detector is broke if you arent actually serious.

These things are normal to me.. The series took place in Japan so what can we expect,the Great Wall beside the Takasu resident? Niagara Falls in Taiga's bathtub?

honestly dont care, its a great series. and given the building fail shots we were shown earlier proves that there just references and not shoops.

I think kannagi's tracing was moar effective in terms of visuals...

tracing instead of copying is better in quality, but of course, we always want to put efforts in it. So you just copy it all over without tracing and add some minor details...

I don't mind watching anime with such photoshopping. Why is it so bad to be a photoshop anime?

Honestly, I rather like the increased usage of background photos. If the point is to make the series a realistic fiction (+/- magical subtype), then using real locations make sense. It's often hard to grasp the details and atmosphere of an urban landscape without some heavy use of references.

I like seeing these comparisons. For the fans who find them, it's like an extra bonus assignment. Detective work or a memory test: "So have you been here before?"

And I agree with a previous comment that the characters are supposed to be living in a modern Japan that we're all familiar with. They're celebrating the same holidays and traditions in the show; why not also live in the same city with the same buildings?

It allows for a closer attachment to the series, I think. It's a fortunate convenience, and I wouldn't call it cheating or "shopped" in the negative sense.

Like it or leave it...its the way of future anime...unless u prefer the perspectively failed scene in certain anime...lol...45 degree...

i think it all started since MAKOTO SHINKAI kantoku so openly showed that how he shopped his scenes in his well crafted anime...LOVE it

im an architect and i love anime. well about this i think is great. you know the enviroment can change peoples mood i would probably find the perfect place and then draw it. i totally agree with this. and i have realized that somehow before, when i started watching toradora. keep it up.

Yep, I never really understood people complaining about animes that uses real life scenarios to compose anime locations and stuff...

In fact, I find this a positive point about animes in Japan.

Seeing places in animes you like, sometimes even with some cultural reference to it...

And even if artists do that to get the work done faster and more efficiently, I don't see a problem if the result is good.

Wouldn't call them lazy too, since we all know how stressful and how tight their schedules can be...

Also worth to point out is the statement that the places dont match. I might be wrong, but residential areas are a bit iffy to depict 'accuratly' since people may or may not want their house shown accuratly in a mediaform widely spread around the world. Atleast thats one reason i would use to use accurate renditions on the wrong locations.. so to speak >_>
Because obviously obsessive fans do go to great lengths to actually find the places and go 'zomg photoshop anime!'