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So I would't lengthen my words lol any questions are welcome critiques are welcome as well Here goes nothin' As a Starter made from photoscape, The days I figured out how to use photoshop, The days I mixed an animation from different forgotten apps png format. The days I started to use apng formats, Drawing, Background made from c4d app, I really like that Explosion FX option Latest made from android phone, I believe we have different styles when it comes to graphics

For me it's the artwork. Anime style seems to be different than cartoons. For me when I think about cartoons I think about Looney Tunes or Tom and Jerry, something like that When I think about anime I think about things like Naruto, SAO, FMA, with that specific artwork style. Also like @Animedragon said too it's the storyline. Anime seems to have an actual storyline with things progressing with each episode like a normal T.V show would, and when I think about cartoons I think about something that doesn't really have a storyline that goes from episode to episode.

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@Animedragon Happy Birthday If blowing out all the candles proves to be too much of a challenge, Nagisa is happy to help Dang, how’d I miss this? Hope you had a good one, Viruxx

welcome to my art showcase people of anime formus, i hope u enjoy the random digital and physical art i've made, if u have any questions about my art u may comment down below or message me and i will gladly answer ^w^, but for now enjoy

Full reference sheet for a Yeenan officer. Can you tell how much fun I had with this one? : )

For me what defines an anime and separates it from being a cartoon is the quality of the background artwork along with characters that are well designed, drawn and animated to look and act like real people. Yes, I know real people don't have really large eyes, but that's part of the anime visual style and it's often the detail in the eyes which bring a character to life. For me the other aspect that separates anime from cartoons is the storylines, anime always seems to me to have more serious and thoughtful stories that cartoons. Someone once said that cartoons are story driven and the story dictates how the characters act, while anime is more character driven and the actions of the characters directs the flow of the story.

Sketchy waist-up of a character I never finished refining. Really digging the vibe he has though.

Hey so I want to have an open conversation about something I think people maybe overlook or try not to think to heavily about, which is what I did for a long time but recently I can’t anymore it’s like my mind unlocked info and now I can’t turn it off. We all know anime has a lot of fan service right? Well usually I can ignore it cause it’s usually just a high-school girl with big boobs and her panties are showing, stereotypical. I’m talking about the other issue. The sexualization of very young girls and or young looking girls. For example, I’m scrolling on a website to read a manga and I come across one with a girl in elementary school flashing her panties and I’m like what is this? I just ignore it but I do want to ask how is it so widely accepted? I know most people see it and go oh god but we also like don’t riot or try and take it down. It’s considered freedom of expression or the argument is “the author isn’t a pedo he likes anime lolis”. It got me to thinking though when manga artists who do draw sexualized anime girls( specifically very young ones) are they using a reference in their head? Do they have a reference of a real life little girl and use her to draw, or is it more they use reference of a made up adult but just makes them smaller in their head, or do they use other loli characters as reference so on and so fourth or do they make up the anime girl completely without any reference whether real or fake. I just couldn’t get it out of my head if they’re using real children as reference to draw whether they use fotos of images in their head of real kids they’ve seen. Even big time anime’s or mangakas will draw young girls flashing their non existent cleavage or showing panties, one good example is Shirō from no game no life. she’s literally 11 but so sexualized. It’s so prevalent in other shows and mangas and they tend to be created by men as well. I love anime and manga, I really do, but I just wanted to get opinions from other people who see this happening as well, how do you cope? Or are you also not coping well. Do you have any more knowledge and insight from artists who do draw loli characters? Are they not using real kids and reference. The problem here to is there will be artists who are creeps and do use real children, I guess I’m talking about the majority of the community that draws that kind of stuff, what do they use as reference if any. Thank you for listening to me ramble, I just feel like this is an important topic and want to talk to other people who either feel the same way I do or who have different opinions or thoughts. :)

Hi everyone, how are we doing? I'm the puddinater (if you couldn't guess, that's not my real name, but I do like puddin). My favourite anime is berserk, which is also my favourite manga. Apart from anime I like videogames (JRPGS and such), music (like the beatles and nirvana), and eating pudding. Anyway, hope everyone's doing well, I'm looking foward to meeting everyone (PS: this is the first forum I've joined so I don't really know what to say, hope I've done everything correctly)

Can I see your favorite art that you've made? It can be anything, drawings, graphics, photography, maybe crafts you've made. If you don't have any of that post your fave art by someone else! (Just make sure to post who it's by). These are my top 2 graphics that I've made for myself and for friends, and my favorite painting by an artist: This is my favorite C4D sig I've made: This is my favorite PNG sig that I've made: And this is my favorite art, not made by me. It's a painting of Irises by Claude Monet. I always wished I was able to paint like that ^^ :

while it is true that the characters themselves are fictional, these are still real people depicting minors in adult ways and putting them in such situations. There are actual people creating and looking at children like this and enjoying it. Fictional or not, a child is still a child and adults are putting them in sexual situations. It doesn't matter if the character is real or not.

I love to go Geocaching. It's treasure hunting using GPS to help find things others have hidden for everyone to seek out. For the experience. To discover new places you didn't know existed. I've been a casual geocacher since 2011 and it is very much fun. Best part...it's free to do this exciting hobby! ...btw if you are interested, check out www.geocaching.com.

I loved it. The characters were portrayed to perfection. I finished the entire series in one day.

Yes, it certainly is. There was a a lot of good anime made in the 1990's

Another pin for “Psyche”. Currently scheduled for launch on October 5.

@Jaywolf88 I cannot stress enough how much I agree with this, the main argument you'll hear from people is "it's a cartoon / fiction, it's not a real person", but that really means nothing when you consider that the things we enjoy in fiction are very strongly related to the things we want in reality. For instance, very silly but accurate example, if you adore dogs IRL, it's very likely you'll naturally enjoy a work of art about dogs. The same principle applies for pretty much everything else, and the excuse that it's "an anime, it's what it does" is a deflection of the fact that these people are genuine paedophiles trying to mask what they are. Is every person who enjoys anime with some degree of fan service one of them? I want to believe not, that some are just ignorant and so desensitised to the sexualisation of minors that they just go with it. It's essential to help them grow aware of the dangerous culture they're promoting unawaringly (or aware). I've been falling out of watching anime more and more with the years, to the point where I only watch maybe one or two things a year if a friend recommends it to me. Paradoxical considering I'm an admin in a website called Anime Forums, but I know there's a lot of value in the art of Japanese animation and I want to strive for a healthier environment that recognises it over cheap eye candy for perverts.

Happy birthday! Mine is tomorrow so I’m asking myself the same question. Also things like, “who came up with this whole birthday thing anyway?” I suspect it was either the same guy who came up with Mondays or a close associate.

Definitely Yuru (Laidback) Camp. Nothing but positive vibes from OP to ED

Red Shoes by Elvis Costello Then this gem came on the radio after: We Will Rock You by Queen

No, nothing new as far as my graphics projects go. Right now I'm just sporting a set that Sakura made for me that I combined into a gif. So, I didn't make it, but it's still cool. ^^ I just worked on this a little bit. Added some words and used a still frame from the animated gif of Joshua Christopher. Here it is:

Happy birthday!!

Thank you --- Update: Havent added my 2 favorite drawings, maybe later!

Today is my birthday . So where did the year go? Mark Twain once said that age is just mind over matter, and if you don't mind, it doesn't matter! Age is, of course, just a number. But some days I feel every one of my 71 years

The only ones I usually recognize by their voice are Ian Sinclair, Derek Stephen Prince, Yuri Lowenthal and Crispin Freeman. I got to meet Ian Sinclair and he signed my Whis Funko Pop for me, so that was a pretty cool moment and he's super nice so he's pretty much my favorite out of all of them.

Did the 3-ep thing on The Girl I Like Forgot Her Glasses. Planning on continuing at the end of the season but I gotta say I already have one complaint about the animation. The dust motes. One of those things that you don't notice right away but once I did I found it very distracting.

I started watching Zom 100: Bucket List of the Dead I like it a lot. I'm very amused that the protagonist prefers the apocalypse before going to work. (I feel a bit the same :P)

Welcome to AF! Hope you have a great time here!

Wanted to get 90 firemaking on my alt on Runescape this weekend and I just got it, so small success yay

This is cool, I like that art style.

100F temps lately means replacing the A/C air filter in the car gets top priority on today's todo list. Having to choose between breathing oven-temperature air or air that smells like moldy socks is not a choice one should have to make.

You've got a lot of talent. Like everything else there's room for improvement, but when isn't there? ^^

For profile banner I just used a large wallpaper but I don't remember what size it is. For signature banners I make those, and I usually use sizes between 400 - 500 length and 130 - 250 height, depending on the sig. I think my current is more like 775 length though and that fit the length of the posts.

I've been doing graphics like these for years. I did them on another forum I used to go to, and pretty much every forum I've visited I've done some kind of tweaked image or combined gifs with my username on each separate gif, but the avatar size on here is notably smaller so I can't do that, but I can still tweak some gifs to use as my avy on here. ^^ Just with renders and backgrounds with highlighted text and sometimes a border. Nothing special or anything, but I like 'em. ^^ And usually they take me a handful of hours. First I need to track down an appropriate or fitting background image on some free image sites, though right now I only rely on 1 that I've used for copyright-free materials then add in the renders and effects. Takes a while till I'm happy with the result though. I appreciate you asking about both.

Hi and welcome to the forums Hope you enjoy your stay and if you need anything or want to talk feel free to message me ~

This was a conversation between game show host legend Richard Dawson and his mom. He was a child seeing soldiers of all colors leaving from his hometown of England on D-Day in World War II, and he was trying to understand seeing people of other colors for the first time in his life. Mom: "God. God makes people. You understand that, don't you?" Richard: "Yes." Mom: "Who makes a rainbow?" Richard: "God." Mom: "I'd never presume to tell anyone who could make a rainbow what color to make children."

My brother’s kids requested stickers as necessary back-to-school accessories so I stopped in at the company store today. Unfortunately they were out of stock on those but for myself I did pick up a new cap with all the NASA rovers in silhouette, a Mars Sample Return mission sticker, and an Artemis patch. On the cap that’s the Sojourner, Spirit, Opportunity, Curiosity, and Perseverance rovers, along with the Ingenuity drone/helicopter at the far right. And yes that’s my Kerbal coffee mug off to the side there.

last post of the night before i get up tomorrow morning again but this is another art piece i actually did in my freshman high school year..and now i'm a junior TxT..BUT this is my favorite art piece i've done in my freshman year

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That's a really cool shirt

My sister brought me an old Digivice she had found in her room that hadn't been opened yet. It works like one of those nano pets that used to be popular lol Still works and came with the instruction manual and everything still in the box!

Since you liked Mashle, you might like Helck (ongoing). And since you liked Dead Mount Death Play you might like Baccano & Durarara (by the same writer) My personal faves would be Princess Mononoke, Nausicaa & Castle in the Sky.

Wholesome anime, hmm here's a few suggestions to be getting on with: A Place Further Than The Universe. Yuru Camp. Insomniacs After School. Clannad & Clannad After Story. Someday's Dreamers. Hyouka. Other forum members will no doubt be along later with some more suggestions. I may, or may not, be back with a few more.

Happy Birthday!!

New Yu-Gi-Oh acrylic stand and my 2 new Yugi plushies I'm really happy about these~

Hello and welcome. Hope you have a good time here.

Personally, I find that watching the news on TV and reading the daily papers is depressing enough without anime adding to it.

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