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Can an american become an anime artist?


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the_soultaker



Joined: 25 Mar 2004
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PostPosted: Mon May 10, 2004 8:31 am Reply with quote
mahoro wrote:
No offense but everyone, especially Nagisa, Teknoman blade, llittlegreenwolf and others, you are all taking this completely off topic! Lets refocus, end this flaming/pointless debate and try to give some constructive comments on topic.

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LMAO, I strongly agree, and it so proves my point(s) in regards to "Fanboy rage" this flaming lacks of respectFrom both sides!
If you don't have anything nice to say....

As for an American breaking into the Anime field, it's somewhat near impossible, but hey if the Koreans can do it, i can't see why it should deter an American from working on storyboards,pages and such if S/he is dedicated enough. (I.E. Learning fluent japanese,adapting various animation styles and storytelling concepts and of course being very creative.)

"Become your dream". Cool
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Animefan16



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PostPosted: Mon May 24, 2004 9:55 pm Reply with quote
That's true. Korean Anime is already considered second best to Japanese Anime. Megas XLR is pretty good for an American cartoon that's influenced by anime. Gendy Tartakovsky's cartoons (Dexter, Samurai Jack) are influenced by anime and they're really good.
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Lupus



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PostPosted: Tue May 25, 2004 5:51 am Reply with quote
Yes, if you move to Japan and learn the language etc.

Or if you just make cartoons in an anime style and claim it's half-anime.

But to be honest, Western Animation (the vast majority of GOOD western animation is American [although most American live-action shows are crap by my experience] - but let's not forget the Animal Farm cartoon, which was British) has its good points [well, most of the stuff I watch], as does anime. But they are seperate. I don't think that there'll ever be a good American anime - maybe from Europe if someone tries hard enough.
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