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You film it, of course.
evangelion
(or, for Earthbound fans: Lumine Hall)
It makes me feel good.
YT recommended me this
(Note: text of previous post was sarcasm.)
Better than the band's own, I tell ya. Also, I didn't know Disney is so trve.
I always had this fantasy about being magic, and using my magic to make perfect crossover videos for youtube with original voice-acting intact.
And just making extremely convincing "deleted versions" of series and having everybody go "oh my god is this REAL? it looks real! I'm confused"
I agree with his perspective though I think he doesn't quite express it very well. He says that the art needs to have more "meaning". That makes it sound like anime art doesn't have "meaning"...which it certainly does.
Rather, I think there are two dimensions that this actually means (no pun intended):
1a. The "societal meaning" of it. It is still niche, as this commentator points out, albeit a notable, recognizable, and increasingly accepted niche. As much as I'd like to insist that it's high art, it's often not considered such, and that's just the way it's perceived, though that may change in the future, of course. And as a result...
1b. Closely related to the "societal meaning", is to what extent it might be demanded by people who might pay money for art. Considering what the market demands is especially important for anyone who is expecting to make a professional career out of their artwork. Again, this might change over time -- as the anime fanbase matures, and people who grew up with anime in their lives become professional adults themselves with incomes to spend and guests (as well as children) to entertain, and later, retirees, I expect to see some amount of increase in the demand for this style of artwork.
2. Another dimension of meaning is a general sense of "what purpose does this artwork serve?". The perceived "shallowness" of pop art usually comes from a presumption that it's basically there to simply display a character, or just look cool/pretty, and one can't really take in much more than that. Sorta like how people normally wouldn't use blueprints for their house as art to hang on a wall. If the anime-style art is just there because you want a picture of a cute girl in your life, then it is not too different from a calendar of pin-up models, which people would easily regard as kinda base in terms of purpose -- especially for people who aren't familiar with who said cute girl is. On the other hand, looking for meaning beyond just "looking cute" (for example) gives something more depth. For example, if you're looking to complement a sitting room with a piano, a guitar, and a coffee table with random nature books, this might work: http://safebooru.org/index.php?page=post&s=view&id=346510 . It's a picture with an (arguably) attractive girl drawn in an anime art style, but it's also got a lot more context than that, with interesting uses of color (darker blues/purple in the foreground, lighter blues for a stream, yellow for backlighting) and visual features (a variety of musical instruments drawn as if they're naturally present in a forest, giving an imaginative/surreal vibe), and even said anime girl is drawn in relation to that context, since she appears to be singing (which makes sense if you recognize her since she's Chihaya Kisaragi, a fictional pop idol singer with a more operatic/serious streak to her style).
well, here you go!
...oh well, whatever.
What elsewhere would be one man's struggle, here is such a beautiful allegory for the struggle of us all.
Almost exactly year old, still actual.