Topic: Anime vs Real Life.....

[Kale]

http://en.rocketnews24.com/2012/12/16/anime-vs-real-life-a-picture-dump/

It's pretty cool.

It slowly gets worst as you go down.   

[crisis]

Is there an online anime-generator where you can upload your photo & it turns it into an anime drawing? i wanna upload something like that to my instagram

[Jorge D. Fuentes]

Some of those look better as real people in comparison to their anime counterparts, like the girl with the flowers on her hat, the girl taking off her top with the blue swimsuit under, and the girl putting on the headphones (#3).

[Mooning Freddy]

It always seems odd to me how anime characters almost never have slanted eyes and big noses like their asian artists.
It's like they're uncomfortable with their racial characteristics or something. You may say it's just because the art style is simplistic.
But I think that's not the only reason.

[Kale]

I always thought it was to appeal to the "cuteness" big bright eyes, and all.

Prime example...

[Jorge D. Fuentes]

Here's an UnPrime example, hahaha.
In real life?  Not so much.

[TheCruelAngel]

A lot of anime's original styling were derived off of Tezuka's works in the 40's and 50's, who in turn was inspired by the works of a certain Walt Disney.

There's been talk about "why anime all whities? lol" but that's always been asked from a Western perspective. From an Eastern perspective (not slanted or squinty, you racists!) they're seen as Asians. Some of this is derived from the culturally "default human" that resides in the back of the subconscious. When we see a "human-esque" representation (stick figure, for example) we default to what we believe the person to be. Someone from Africa would see the stick figure as African, Europe a European and in Asia an Asian.

Read more about "Default Human"
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I mean...have you seen anime depiction of "white guys"? They all have long noses, yellow hair and dramatically blue eyes. It's a racial stereotype for how the Japanese perceive Westerners to look.

More of foreigner represented in anime, though covers Americans I think also applies to Europeans as well.

As for the images themselves, I've seen them posted before and find the varying degrees of awesome is largely dependent on the artist and his/her interpretation.

[Kale]

That's bad... but then again, there was some girl that got her eyes "anime'd" surgically.

Didn't Disney start in the 50s?

[TheCruelAngel]

20's.

Walt Disney Animations Steamboat Willie

[TheouAegis]

Disney's the fucking devil. I can't help but wonder if there's some clause in the contracts now that says Disney's artists can't go freelance during their tenure. I mean, what with Don Bluth leaving and starting up his own successful animation studio and all when we were growing up...You pretty much never see cartoonists trying to make a name for themselves anymore. What's up with that socialistic crap? I blame Disney.

[Mooning Freddy]

Interesting. Some rare depictions of Westerners in anime are hilarious.

Worst black guy in a japanese dub ever

Didn't Disney start in the 50s?

If they did, we'd miss all those epic 40's war-propaganda cartoons. Even though I like Popeye's better.

[VladCT]

Wow, uncanny valley kicked in pretty fast for me when they're derived from real life. Not so much when there's enough stylization though.

[Neobelmont]

Wait a minute

Anime Guy On A Date

[Ratty]

A lot of anime's original styling were derived off of Tezuka's works in the 40's and 50's, who in turn was inspired by the works of a certain Walt Disney.

Pretty sure Tezuka was more influenced by Betty Boop than Mickey.
He probably did wind up taking some inspiration from Disney at some point, but then Disney ripped him right the hell off by changing what was originally going to be a remake of Tezuka's "Kimba the White Lion" into "Simba our ttly original lion character do not steal". The only reason Disney didn't get sued for that was they could afford better lawyers. Ahhh the circle of life.

That's bad... but then again, there was some girl that got her eyes "anime'd" surgically.

Didn't Disney start in the 50s?

A few, keep in mind this is like, hundreds of thousands of dollars of plastic surgery
http://izismile.com/2012/02/08/woman_undergoes_10_surgeries_to_become_anime_character_21_pics.html
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/10/01/anastasiya-shpagina-anime-cartoon-pictures-photos-surgery_n_1929012.html

Disney started in the 1920s when Felix the Cat was the biggest thing around. But it really began to dominate in the 1950s when "family values" paranoia started to permeate every facet of American life.

[Gunlord]

I wish I was anime ;_;