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60 Beautiful Anime y Manga Wallpapers

Anime defines all animation made in Japan, which consists of an aesthetic that is mix of Disney movies and old Japanese design, with distinct traces of other styles, which have as a novel source of inspiration in most cases the Manga, or part of any original idea, and dealing with thematic indistinct from the daily life of a housewife, to science fiction stories drawn from the most enlightened minds.

Here a link to Hongkiat 60 of the best wallpapers created for some anime series or movie, or a famous manga. Remarkable Trigun, Hellsing and Bleach.

How to Create an Anime Artwork in Photoshop

This tutorial is for fans of anime style drawing, through four steps show you how to perform simple coloring, with effects including, an illustration with oriental animation finish.

The link to the article from here.

First sketch of the protagonist of the Cross Project

Cross Project is a 3D animated short I’m finishing level outline script and drawing. The protagonist, the basis of all the short story, is a hit man to whom is entrusted the murder of a former partner at home. Obviously the latter is not prepared to wait with open arms to his executioner.

That’s the premise, because I do not want to delve more would spoil the final result. The picture below shows the first sketch of the main character, you see the main feature of this man is defeated and disinterested look, the exoskeleton that covers the torso and part of the chest, and the cross he carries in his back.

All these elements serve a real function, except the cross in the drawing is expressing the theme of which is short. That’s all for now, more progress soon.

Summer Wars

Summer Wars is an animated movie and science fiction. The film focuses on a shy student in the eleventh grade mathematical genius, who has been wrongly implicated in a crime of piracy of a virtual world.

With the help of his classmates, should prevent the real world and the computer simulation collide. It was produced by Japanese animation studio Madhouse and directed by Mamoru Hosoda.

The project was first announced without a title at the 2008 Tokyo International Anime Fair, and the first trailer of the movie was released in April 2009.

Two manga adaptations of the film were released before the film’s release in Japan and South Korea. He was nominated for the 2009 award at the Golden Leopard International Film Festival Locarno.

Source: Wikipedia

Anime style illustration from an actual photo

Drawing styles are many, need not be drawn ‘good‘ to be an illustrator because every artist can adopt a style that suits him and attracts him without necessarily knowing master drawing charges.

It can begin with an original concept outlined and defined through sketches and final result will give us the picture we had in mind. Or you can start from a drawing made, fit and modify it to suit us.

But there is another option that is tracing based on real pictures, such as the following illustration I found at Kuiliu Blog, which as seen has used the techniques of manga and anime to take that final look to the new character would become a personification of the animated girl in a bikini.

SF20: The Art of Street Fighter on Sale Now

The collection of 20 years of Street Fighter is already for sale on Amazon.com and at major bookstores any time.

The most comprehensive collection of Street Fighter artwork, and contains hundreds of sketches, promotional art, character design, and comments by the artists responsible.

Includes the complete works of every Street Fighter game, Street Figther IV also, Street Fighter EX crossovers with Marvel, Capcom, SNK and Tastunoko.

Then only 2 sample images of this spectacular delivery.

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Promocion de nueva serie anime Dance In The Vampire Bund

La compañia productora Media Factory ha comenzado a transmitir el video promocional de Dance In The Vampire Bund a través de Youtube.

Este anime adaptado del manga del mismo nombre creado por Nozomu Tamaki, narra las excentricidades de una princesa vampiro que quiere crear un distrito especial para su especie en la costa de Japón, a pesar de la existencia de terroristas y facciones rivales que están en su contra.

El vídeo promocional que verán a continuación fue proyectado en el Comic Market 76 evento que se desarrollo en Tokio el mes pasado.

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Trailer de Mai Mai Miracle, lo nuevo de Madhouse

La distribuidora de cine japonés Shochiku ha mostrado un trailer con 30 segundos de la nueva pelicula de Madhouse, Mai Mai Miracle (Mai Mai a Shinko Sennen no Maho).

Esta pelicula vendria a ser la adaptación de la novela para niños de Nobuko Takagi. Entre el reparto destaca el director de Princess Arete, Sunao Katabuchi. La estética de la cinta es muy parecida a los trabajos del estudio Ghibli. A continuación el trailer.

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Tres de corazon – No soy para vos

En el anterior post hable sobre el proyecto de animación 2d de un arequipeño aficionado al anime y a la cultura incaica. Ahora quiero hablar de este video clip que vi en MTV titulado No soy para voz del grupo colombiano Tres de corazón.

Tres de corazón es una banda de Punk-Rock creada en el 2002 en la ciudad de Medellín (Colombia). Está conformada por tres jóvenes llamados, Sebastián Mejía (Guitarra y voz), Felipe Muñoz (Batería) y Jorge Botero (Bajo).

Fire Animation realizó este clip en 2009. Sospecho que es un estudio de animación, no encuentro mayor información en internet. El video se caracteriza por sus diseños estilizados, muy parecido a las series Love Hina, Bleach, entre otros animes muy reconocidos.

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