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Computer Generated
Computer generated shows the great pontential of technology. Using a 'Photoshop' program or Microsoft Paint rolleyes . The most popular photoshops are Adobe Photoshop, Corel Draw, and Macromedia Fireworks. Unfortunely not everyone has those ( gonk ). Computer Generated are usually extremely clean and can be incorported in traditional art. Things like the guild banners, tons and tons of online objects are computer generated using a variety of programs.

Photography
Photography is an extremely interesting field to take up, in photography, you tend to see the world in a different light. Photography is not just taking pictures of people, it including things, places, and anything appealing to the eye or even mind. Now, photography can be taken by digital cameras and standard cameras. I honesty prefer digital, because with it you can edit photos (see above) and they are much easier to work with. Photography isn't just flowers anymore, as I said a few seconds ago photography is anything appealing to the eye, this can be traffic, trash arranged artisticly, motion, and people. Photography is an extremely interesting field to art. wink

ANIME.

Anime,which is short for the English word animation, in the western world most popularly refers to the medium of animation originating in Japan, with distinctive character and background aesthetics that visually set it apart from other forms of animation (e.g. Walt Disney films, Warner Bros. short cartoons). In Japan, the word anime is used to refer to all forms of animated film from around the world. While some anime is entirely hand-drawn, computer assisted animation techniques are, in recent years, quite common. Storylines are typically fictional; examples of anime representing most major genres of fiction exist. Anime is broadcast on television, distributed on media such as DVD and VHS, or included in computer and video games. Anime is often influenced by Japanese comics known as manga. Some anime storylines have been adapted into live action films and television series.

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Techniques

Lum from Urusei Yatsura, an iconic anime character.The drawing style used in anime that is created for television is counter productive to the animation process. The anime style has an emphasis on detail that subsequently creates difficulty with meeting production schedules and budgets, which is in contrast to animation styles that have design ethics that stress simplicity. Thus, the anime style has a philosophy of applying more effort into each of a few drawings than less effort into one of many.

Osamu Tezuka adapted and simplified many Disney animation precepts to reduce the budget costs and number of frames in the production. This was intended to be a temporary measure to allow him to produce one episode every week with an inexperienced animation staff. Some animators in Japan overcome production budgets by utilizing different techniques than the Disney or the old Tezuka/Otsuka methods of animating anime. Due to reduced frame rate, several still shots and scrolling backgrounds, scenes are created with a greater focus on quality than the rest of the production. Animator Yasuo Ōtsuka was a pioneer of this technique. Directors such as Hiroyuki Imaishi (Cutey Honey, Dead Leaves) simplify backgrounds so that more attention can be paid to character animation. Other animators like Tatsuyuki Tanaka (in Koji Minamoto's Eternal Family in particular) use squash and stretch, an animation technique not often used by Japanese animators; Tanaka makes other shortcuts to compensate for this. Anime studios use techniques to draw as little new animation as possible such as using dialogue that involves only animating mouths while the rest of the screen remains absolutely unchanged, a technique familiar to Western animation styles.


Mylene Jenius from Macross 7, a graphically prototypical female anime characterSome higher-budgeted television and OVA (Original Video Animation) series also forego the shortcuts found in most other anime. Classic films, such as those produced by Toei Animation up until the mid 1960s, and recent big budget films, such as those produced by the enormously successful Studio Ghibli have much higher production budgets, due to their anticipated success at the box office.

Another unique aspect of anime not found in other commercial animation markets is the lack of a directorial system. Animation productions tend to keep to a set style by the director or animation director. In Japan starting with the animation director Yoshinori Kanada (as a means to save time and money) allowed each animator to bring their own individual style to the work. An example of this is the The Hakkenden that showed constantly shifting styles of animation from episode to episode, based upon the key animator that worked on that particular episode.

Some non-Japanese cartoons are starting to incorporate mainstream anime shortcuts and symbols in an attempt to appeal to existing anime fans, cut costs, and sometimes simply because of creators' own interest in anime.

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Style

An example of FLCL's wild, exaggerated stylization.While different titles and different artists have their own unique artistic styles, many stylistic elements have become common to the point that they are described as being definitive of anime in general, and have been given names of their own. A common style is the large eyes style drawn on many anime characters, credited to the influence of Osamu Tezuka, who was inspired by the exaggerated features of American cartoon characters such as Betty Boop and Mickey Mouse and from Disney's Bambi. Tezuka found that large eyes style allowed his characters to show emotions expressions distinctly. Cultural anthropologist Matt Thorn argues that Japanese animators and audiences do not perceive such stylized eyes as inherently more or less foreign. [1] When Tezuka began drawing Ribbon no Kishi, the first manga specifically targeted at young girls, Tezuka further exaggerated the size of the characters' eyes. Indeed, through Ribbon no Kishi, Tezuka set a stylistic template that later shōjo artists tended to follow. Another variation of this style is "chibi" or "super deformed"; which usually feature huge eyes, an enlarged head, and small body.

Other stylistic elements are common as well; often in comedic anime, characters that are shocked or surprised will perform a "face fault", in which they display an extremely exaggerated expression. Angry characters may exhibit a "vein" or "stressmark" effect, where lines representing bulging veins will appear on their forehead. Angry women will sometimes summon a mallet from nowhere and strike someone with it, leading to the concept of Hammerspace. Male characters will develop a bloody nose around their female love interests (typically to indicate arousal, based on an old wives tale).[2] Embarrassed characters will invariably produce a massive sweat-drop, which has become something of a stereotype of anime.

The degree of stylization varies from title to title. Some titles make extensive use of common stylization: FLCL, for example, is known for its wild, exaggerated stylization. In contrast, titles such as Only Yesterday, a film by Isao Takahata, take a much more realistic approach, and feature no stylistic exaggerations.

Impressionism

The impressionist style of painting is characterized chiefly by concentration on the general impression produced by a scene or object and the use of unmixed primary colors and small strokes to simulate actual reflected light. An art movement founded in France in the last third of the 19th century. Impressionist artists sought to break up light into its component colors and render its ephemeral play on various objects. The artist's vision was intensely centered on light and the ways it transforms the visible world. This style of painting is characterized by short brush strokes of bright colors used to recreate visual impressions of the subject and to capture the light, climate and atmosphere of the subject at a specific moment in time. The chosen colors represent light which is broken down into its spectrum components and recombined by the eyes into another color when viewed at a distance (an optical mixture). The term was first used in 1874 by a journalist ridiculing a landscape by Monet called Impression - Sunrise.

Dadaism

An art style founded by Hans Arp in Zurich after WW1 which challenged the established canons of art, thoughts and morality etc. Disgusted with the war and society in general, Dadaist expressed their feelings by creating "non-art." The term Dada, nonsense or baby-talk term, symbolizes the loss of meaning in the European culture. Dada art is difficult to interpret since there is no common foundation.

Kinetic Art
Kinetic Art is a form of art that moves. This may include interesting machines that serve no, common purpose. 'Ruth Goldberg' I believe was a popular cartoonist that created strips in which he created machines that were extremely complicated to serve a simple pursose, in this case that is entertainment. Some of this form of Art is mind-bending, almost seemingly to bend the laws of physics. Others are funny, or pleasing and can make people wonder about it.