Forum - View topicWhat does it take to be a manga artist?
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nervheadquarters
Posts: 11 Location: PA |
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I recently have been wanting to be an animator of anime, but i want to get into the anime industry another way and that is by manga.I want to work my way up and I think drawing manga gives freedom and lets me be creative in my own way. Also I am just wondering what i need to do in order to get a manga published.Do i need a certain program on the computer like CG to make it easier to make manga? I know its a difficult task but i am willing to except it.
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Animefreak08
 Posts: 882 Location: Michigan ftw. |
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Well do you want to do a webcomic? You need toning pens and all that junk. Be high highly foucsed. Be prepared to be lazy and have to work under pressure. And make sureyou have photoshop.
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lianncoop
Past ANN Contributor
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Wha...? |
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Animefreak08
Posts: 882 Location: Michigan ftw. |
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heh sorry about that
 A lot of managa-ka tend to do a huge amount of work then suddenly just stop.(Me) I should've re-worded that.  
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littlegreenwolf
 Posts: 4796 Location: Seattle, WA |
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Most manga isn't done with a computer, and it actually takes a LOT to be a manga artist. But since you're presumably American, you won't have to go through any of that. For you to be a manga artist here, *or the closest to a manga artist you can get here, though people will argue you're not manga* just, well, delevlop your style, learn to use screen tones, and enter your comics to the Tokyopop Rising Stars contest. They have some CG screen tone programs out there, I just don't know them.
In Japan, to become a manga artist, you usually have to first work as an assistant to a published manga-ka. Then you have to make a sample or the comic you want published, and start meeting up/sending them to manga magazines to try and get them to publish it. Once you do get accepted, you then have very scrit deadlines to make. You hear all the time of manga-ka haveing mental breakdowns and stuff, because the work is really stressful. In many CLAMP interviews I hear of them addmitting to just suddenly collasping, and at one point Sailor Moon artist Naoko Takeuchi was hospitalized because of it. It's a stressful line of work, but I'm assuming that since they're still doing it, it's worth it for them. Also, manga-ka don't usually have all the creative freedom you might think with their work. They first have to submit a sort of rough draft of their latest chapter before working on the final version, and the editor looks over that and gives suggestions. I'm not sure if they're suggestions, or things they have to change. And if you didn't know it before, usually manga is created and published one chapter at a time. I suggest you start getting the "How to Draw Manga" books. The official ones, not the knock offs. http://www.howtodrawmanga.com They're an actual book series from Japan that have been translated into English here, and they actually go into all the steps usually taken for you to become a manga artist, and to help develop your manga story and art. They're from the Japanese standpoint though, so they go through the whole submitting to a Japanese manga magazine/becoming an assistant to a manga artist and stuff. |
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Daisuke Aurora
 Posts: 16 Location: New York |
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I've read about that in the first issue of Shonen Jump.
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Grieving Chaos
Posts: 99 Location: Winterpark, FL |
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Actually, to become an animator of anime I suggest learning Japanese (if you only want to animate anime) and then learn animation - it would probably be better to have a degree in animating than prove yourself a sucessful manga-ka. Plus, you can actually go to schools and learn animating, as opposed to doing manga and not learning about animating. Or do both at the same time.
However, if you want to be a manga-ka first, yeah, follow the steps people have told you about already - submit to the Rising Stars of Manga, or just submit to Tokyopop period. There're a few "manga-esque" comic book publishers in America, but they're few and far between. If you aren't set on manga tho' - and wouldn't mind just doing comic books, period, there are several paths you could take. Self-publish, try to have Image publish your works, or submit art/writing samples to comic companies and hope they hire you (you wouldn't be able to tell your own stories tho'). You'll get alot of beef for a having a manga style too. However, if your plan is to create a manga - which then gets an animated series - good luck. You'll probably have to move to Japan, or at least have it published there, and then have it get popular enough to have a company be interested in animating it. Most comic books here in America will never have an animated series, as there isn't as much of a following or interest in the charcters to warrant spending the money to make them animated. Overall, your easiest route would probably be learning animating and then trying to get hired by a Japanese studio. |
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king_micah
 Posts: 994 Location: OSU |
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There is another topic about this where I have a lengthy reply that boils down to this: Go To Art School. Get a professional art education here in United States. If you can't accept the dictates of an Art School, you will not make it. There are techniques and skills that take time to build and are universal. You need to know how to draw before you can try and go into a pseudo-manga style. To really know how to draw, you need to educate yourself.
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darkhunter
 Posts: 2992 Location: Los Angelas |
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Animators don't make much in Japan and is a low paying job. Many japanese student are not majoring in animation any more. In fact, you don't even need to know japanese to be an animator. You need to know korean. Most animation jobs that japanese once did are now being done in Korea since it's cheaper. Some animation are still done in Japan. Many people wouldn't figure that the simpson are animated in Korea also. My point is, it's not a real career you want to pursue. It doesn't pay much to be an animator and you work very long. Also once you become an animator, it's not like you control anything except anime what the pruducer once. You have to do it for the love of anime.
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