For anime:
I love the character design work of Toshiro Kawamoto (cowboy bebop, goldenboy) and if you have never seen goldenboy and don't mind hentai-ish (perverted) comedy ,watch it! the first episode deals with the software industry and the last with the animation industry!
Terada Matsuya (character designer for blood-the last vampire) has some amazing artbooks and combines some of the painting techniques of the great fantasy illustrators and adds nice weight to his characters.
Range Murata (blue sub six) has a nice style and great sense of clothing design and just design in general. His artbooks are great too.
And pretty much anything by production ig and gainax will be wonderfully animated and inspiring to me (even if their stories are kinda out there), definitely check out gainax's otaku no video if you haven't already
For manga:
Chen shu-fen and Common are a taiwanese couple who have a "glamour realism" doing beautiful cg water color stuff (they have an artbook called the library)
Takeshi Obata (who worked with a writer named hotta yumi to create hikaru no go) is a phenominal artist, who picks great camera angles and draws very realistically for the scenery and clothing and has a very clean style
Masakazua Katsura (video girl ai, dna2, I's) - draws the cutest girls and best panty and butt shots (very important for an anime/manga artist)
Oh Great! (Tenjou Tenge, Air Gear) - brilliant and super perverted artist who draws incredibly sexy girls (very echi) but also very well musculatured guys and great fight scenes
Nobuhiro Watsuki (rurouni kenshin) great action sequences, nice cartooney distortions and framing and layout
And for a generally kick ass artbook, check out Capcom design works (bengus and his coworkers kick ass) - but that style is probably the most heavily emulated by todays american comic book artists, like madeira and udon
There are a lot more I admire (especially those of a particular style) but that should be enough to get a discussion going
I love the character design work of Toshiro Kawamoto (cowboy bebop, goldenboy) and if you have never seen goldenboy and don't mind hentai-ish (perverted) comedy ,watch it! the first episode deals with the software industry and the last with the animation industry!
Terada Matsuya (character designer for blood-the last vampire) has some amazing artbooks and combines some of the painting techniques of the great fantasy illustrators and adds nice weight to his characters.
Range Murata (blue sub six) has a nice style and great sense of clothing design and just design in general. His artbooks are great too.
And pretty much anything by production ig and gainax will be wonderfully animated and inspiring to me (even if their stories are kinda out there), definitely check out gainax's otaku no video if you haven't already
For manga:
Chen shu-fen and Common are a taiwanese couple who have a "glamour realism" doing beautiful cg water color stuff (they have an artbook called the library)
Takeshi Obata (who worked with a writer named hotta yumi to create hikaru no go) is a phenominal artist, who picks great camera angles and draws very realistically for the scenery and clothing and has a very clean style
Masakazua Katsura (video girl ai, dna2, I's) - draws the cutest girls and best panty and butt shots (very important for an anime/manga artist)
Oh Great! (Tenjou Tenge, Air Gear) - brilliant and super perverted artist who draws incredibly sexy girls (very echi) but also very well musculatured guys and great fight scenes
Nobuhiro Watsuki (rurouni kenshin) great action sequences, nice cartooney distortions and framing and layout
And for a generally kick ass artbook, check out Capcom design works (bengus and his coworkers kick ass) - but that style is probably the most heavily emulated by todays american comic book artists, like madeira and udon
There are a lot more I admire (especially those of a particular style) but that should be enough to get a discussion going
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Re: favorite anime and manga artists
Wed, October 22, 2003 - 12:28 AMI myself am a fan of CAPCOM's design team, they draw the cutest noses. ^_^
For manga stylings, though, I adore CLAMP. The team brings about some rather amazing pieces of work, and their recent books have strayed just a bit from their previous habit of very long legs and sharp chins. Chobits and Angelic Layer are two good examples of their stylistic transitions.
I'm also very much in love with the work of Shirow Masamune. His depictions of women are incredibly sexy, and his masterful ability with watercolours is just to die for.
Yutaka Nanten of the Bebop manga is just splended, the very slim and sleek characters are wonderful, seeming to have a motion of their own on the pages.
Fuyumi Soryo has a wonderful way of capturing emotion in her art, telling complete stories in the eyes of her characters. MARS is a good example of her work.
Sora Inoue produces some very sexy, curvy women for the Realbout Highschool books written by Reiji Saiga. A very full style of art that gives the female characters a definite weight and balance in their bodies, rather than beign whispy, thin, delicate things.
Finally, I can't go without mentioning Rei Izumi's work in the .hack// books. The characters are portrayed in an adorable way, yet the females have a very irresistable nature, cutsey without detracting from their attractive designs.
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Re: favorite anime and manga artists
Thu, February 12, 2004 - 2:01 AMI'm more of a Mech and Tech guy, so my favorites are:
Makato Kobayashi: Did designs for Z Gundam, Giant Robo, and a lot of really cool work of his own.
Kazumi Fujita: Also did designs for Z Gundam, as well as Blue Knight and an amazing set of designs for a game called Quo Vadis.
Shoji Kawamori: I put him on the list begrudgingly, because I actually hated the Macross designs he did, but his later carrer has had some wonderful work including having his hand in Escaflowne, Outlaw Star, Cowboy BeBop, Virtua On and even some Gundam. I really have to respect his versatility.
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Re: favorite anime and manga artists
Thu, February 12, 2004 - 9:08 AMThe famous Yoshitaka Amano (did character design and conceptual art for the final fantasy series, vampire hunter d, g-force) ...(he also did an absolutely beautiful version of "the dream hunters" with Neil Gaiman...Its available in paperback for about 20$...look it up if you get a chance)
Clamp I must mention for their costume design skills( X1999, cardcaptor sakura, chobits, rg veda etc.).....thier characters are always solid and well drawn.
my other favorite artist is Brom ...tho he's not anime :P hehe -
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Re: favorite anime and manga artists
Mon, February 14, 2005 - 4:48 PMNaoko Takeuchi (Sailor Moon of course!), and Adam Warren (Dirty Pair), I hope to have the drawing style of them both combined, but that would take a lot of practice. There is a lot of anime artists that I like, BUT these would have to be my 2 personal favorite.
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Re: favorite anime and manga artists
Wed, March 2, 2005 - 5:03 AMJust wait till you see the new Gaiman, Amano collaboration, starring David Bowie. it gives me goosbumps. -
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Re: favorite anime and manga artists
Thu, March 3, 2005 - 7:51 PMWholly crap! David Bowie!!! I love him! I didn't know he was going to be in an anime. -
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Re: favorite anime and manga artists
Fri, March 4, 2005 - 10:23 AMWill it turn out like "Princess Peach"? [I THINK] that's the one that portrays Courtney Love in manga form. Or what's the premise?
BTW: i'm not a big david bowie fan. but if the story/art blend well i'll certainly read into it. -
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Re: favorite anime and manga artists
Mon, March 14, 2005 - 12:57 PMi like shiro, wingbird and urushihara.. year i know i´m perverted *lol*
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