Veteran Final Fantasy designer Tetsuya Nomura, of Square Enix, is here pitted against veteran Gears of War designer Cliff Bleszinski, of Epic Games. Both now have careers on rather similar footings, though their design styles could not be further removed from one another.
The huge gulf between the character design used in the initial A Certain Magical Index light novels and that used in more recent volumes, as well as more widely in the anime and similar, has recently been pointed out by fans. Especially the differences in Index’s design…
You can see a simple comparison illustrating the huge differences below:
The imminent third season of troubled baka-yarou anime Minami-ke, Minami-ke Okaeri, has been unveiled in modest detail with the release of a brief trailer, allowing a fair comparison between the three seasons.
Minami-ke fans are seemingly split between those who consider the new series to represent a complete collapse in design quality, and those who think it compares well with Okawari. We need not consider the other possible opinion, vanishingly rare as it is.
You can evaluate it yourself below:
Also, Haruka in the third season actually shows other emotion besides the selfless kind self that is pretty much dominant (or more like all the time) in the second season. I actually seen Haruka show... More
Animation and image wise, I think it got worse. The second season looks way too like the stereotypical drama-anime. However, the style of the art is more like the first season (without the subtile shading... More
A Christmas card wallpaper on the official Spice and Wolf website provides us our first good look of Horo and Kraft as drawn by the new character designer for the 2nd season of Spice and Wolf:
A rather accomplished Korean artist whose works you may already have seen, but not known the source of, is Alien 1452. You can see a sampling of these fine works below:
In this intriguing parody image, Lucky Star’s beloved Tsukasa is redrawn using the illustrative styles of 33 different anime and manga. How many can you identify?
from top, left to right: zetsubou sensei, ??, ichigo marshmallow, yotsuba, nichijou, pani poni dash sumomomo momomo, macross F, code geass, gantz, chokotto sister, noien school days, saint october, kamichu! yu-gi-oh, elfen lied, fate stay night eureka 7, zegapain, manabi straight dragonaut,... More
code geass and yu gi oh wtf... More
Here we have an interesting comparison of the differences between the various iterations of the highly successful doujin mixed media franchise that is Higurashi no Naku Koro ni.
From left to right, we see the anime, movie, original, TMA cosplay AV, PS2 game, fighting game Higurashi Daybreak, and the manga edition.
Anime is clearly superior, but the picture of the Movie Mion doesn't do justice. She really is the hottest thing in Japan.... More
wtf is this? I don't really see any similarity b/w the real people and the 2D characters. The hair color and the skin tones are different. Forget the colour! even the hair's length and styles are different!... More
The story of 湊ヒロム / Hiromu Minato is a tragic and interesting one. The image you see above, as well as those shown later, are all her works, but you may be surprised to learn that the crude illustration below is not one of her earlier works, but rather one of her last, a shocking deterioration from her once accomplished character design talents.
I think you screwed up at the end... More
R.I.P. Hiromu Japan is not the only place where women are treated like shit. But that doesn´t mean that it doesn´t suck just as much. Misogyny is one of the great crimes of mankind. Rapists should... More
Seeing his works in detail, I thought it might be interesting to pick them up; these images are by Kuratch, a Hokkaido based artist with a background in design and an interest in SF, both of which come through strongly in his art.
Here we have a complete set of yet to be revealed (in the anime at least) characters from A Certain Magical Index, which as you know has an extensive series of light novels already published.
Some rather nice character designs look to be in evidence; considering the success of the series, might we be seeing these in future seasons?
In this image you can see a comparison of all the diverse character renditions various Haruhi related titles have spawned.
OMG this is nicely done . . . very informative . . and ya know . . .... More
I just noticed the Morning Musume column (2nd from the right). Eh? Did some of the MoMusu girls cosplay Haruhi? I don't keep up with RL idols so I'm a bit out of the loop.... More
This interesting comparsion illustrates the surprisingly wide disparities each person overseeing the animation of the second season of Gundam 00 has introduced (listed at the top), in a mere four episodes.
Yeah, I definitely concur with you! It's just ridiculious to compare face with totally different emotions and I'd say that Gundam 00 - Second Season is very consistent in animation till now.... More
Considering I don't pay enough attention to Gundam for me to put any effort into noticing any discrepencies, not much of an eff is being given by me. But if I had to choose..... then third... More
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