What you need to know to create an anime in Japan. If your dream is to move to Japan and work in the anime industry, it is possible. But according to one accomplished American animator who has done it, there’s a few things you need to know first.
But according to one accomplished American animator who has done it, there’s a few things you need to know first. Samantha Inoue-Harte, founder of Saiko Studios and a producer and partner at Animetropolis, spoke about her experience during a DragonCon panel Friday about working in the anime industry as an American woman.
According to the wiki entry of 'Amerimanga', it's a comic written and drawn by Americans (or the people of the North American region of the world) to the style of Japanese manga. So your comics would be considered part of the Amerimanga genre. Is it possible? Sure, absolutely.
They call it manga and anime in Japan but here we just call it cartoons and comics. If you live in America and create a comic with a manga style then it would be called a comic book by logic since you lived in America. Avatar is a cartoon but say something like DBZ is called anime.
The opening is just giving a basic of the show with clips from the show. Anime is aimed towards all. Have a wide range of genres and more human look compared to most cartoons and make you become attached to the characters. The plot can run from an episode to an entire season and tend to be more serious.
At all. Yes, we've seen very good examples of American companies making anime. Avatar is a very good example and the most recent Rooster Teeth series, RWBY, is another one. When I watched Avatar when it first came out I though right away "Oh cool Nick has an anime!".
I saw it as an anime. Crunchyroll saw it as an anime. It is an anime.
Anime is a sub-set of the larger medium of animation. It's a particular style, so yes, I do think Americans can make anime. That doesn't mean they do it though. RWBY, imo, is anime-influenced, but lacks some of the stylistic sensibilities of anime.
anime isnt actully just animation done in japan its the word japanese use to describe all forms of animation. In Japan it may be used to describe all forms of animation, but in the west its often used to describe the animation style from Japan specifically. However, all you need to look at is RWBY.
This is an interesting fact, that a lot of people don´t know. Anime was inspired by western-Animation. To be more specific, it was inspired by the first Animations from Wald Disney.
So Japanese people will call any Animation, even American ones, Anime .
So when you go by the second definition then every Animation that originates from Japan is called Anime and every other Animation is just an Animated Film or animated show or an animated short.
The Anime is called “Neo Yokio“. It is a Netflix original and was released on September 22, 2017. It was written by the American Ezra Koenig a member of the Rock Band “Vampire Weekend” and it was produced in Japan by the Anime Studios “Production I.G.” and “Studio Deen”.
So can Anime be American? Yes! Anime is simply the Japanese word for Animation . In the Western-World Anime is however seen as Animation with a specific style that is created in Japan. No matter how you define the word “Anime” though, there have been Animation shows, that had an American writer but were produced in Japan.
That alone opens you to so many possibilities, that you could very well be able to create an Anime, that is being produced in Japan even though you are from America or any other country. Making an Anime is expensive though. If you want to know, I wrote an article about the costs of making an anime.
Read The Illusion of Life. Written by Frank Thomas and Ollie Johnson, Inoue-Harte says this book is referred to as the “animation bible” in the industry.
If you work on a project for an animation studio and do your part, but someone else on the team doesn’t, you may not get paid. Inoue-Harte says it’s so common to chase after animators to get them to finish a project that it’s become a trope, and this scenario even appears in manga and anime.
According to the wiki entry of 'Amerimanga', it's a comic written and drawn by Americans (or the people of the North American region of the world) to the style of Japanese manga. So your comics would be considered part of the Amerimanga genre.
That means if it isn't Japanese then it isn't bonafide Japanese Manga. It's an imitation. An American cannot make manga, no matter how well versed they are, because the very act means it isn't manga, it's a copy... an imitation. Which is all fine, it just has a different name.
If you live in America and create a comic with a manga style then it would be called a comic book by logic since you lived in America. Avatar is a cartoon but say something like DBZ is called anime. It has to come from Japan to be called 'true' manga or anime but I don't think it matters.