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Snow white looks like this:
Backgrounds are also pretty dark and without lighting. The light backgrounds of modern animation I think were developed in the 1980's with the use of poster paint instead of only watercolour as well as the use of computer graphics these days.
So that a 2013 TV anime Nagi no Asukara looks like this:
Also, Nagi no Asukara is very cartoony in its character designs but yet has very realistic background art and highly detailed clothing. Pure cartoony style is rather rare among adult animation these days, though Kill me Baby is one of such.
Though the single defining characteristic of Japanese art style in comics, games and animation is the use of very strong/clear lines. While western stuff tends to be more blurry and the drawings tend to be less well defined.
By the way, this is how good manga looks like, notice the clean lines:
Backgrounds are also pretty dark and without lighting. The light backgrounds of modern animation I think were developed in the 1980's with the use of poster paint instead of only watercolour as well as the use of computer graphics these days.
So that a 2013 TV anime Nagi no Asukara looks like this:
Also, Nagi no Asukara is very cartoony in its character designs but yet has very realistic background art and highly detailed clothing. Pure cartoony style is rather rare among adult animation these days, though Kill me Baby is one of such.
Though the single defining characteristic of Japanese art style in comics, games and animation is the use of very strong/clear lines. While western stuff tends to be more blurry and the drawings tend to be less well defined.
By the way, this is how good manga looks like, notice the clean lines:
I am glad though that most anime isn't going 3D like Disney and Pixar have (even though Disney has made many good 3D films) and instead are using today's technology to enhance the traditional animation.
....8/10.
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