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| Anime wallpapers |
By:
srinivaasswathi |
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| Wallpapering your desktop can be almost
as creative as the product itself. In fact, drawing on this principle,
Japanese artists decided to give the world a new experience and called
it Japanimation or anime wallpapers.
Initially called Japanimation and later
called anime, the art form involved a genre of drawings that adhered
to a particular style. Though there are variations in style and studio
within the genre, common characteristics include distortion of body
proportions, dramatically shaped speech bubbles and exclamatory typography.
Anime usually depict people with unusually
large eyes, elongated limbs or with a large head of hair. And with wallpapers
constituting a huge industry, it didn’t take long for the Japanese
to jump onto the anime wallpapers bandwagon.
The art form was soon used to design
wallpapers, both static and interactive, video games, internet clips
and short and full-length feature films like Momotaro’s Divine Sea
Warriors. But if that dates back to 1944, why is anime not more popular
than it is?
Anime itself has been around in Japan
since the early 20th century and was invented as a way for
Japanese animation film-makers to cut costs. The oldest recorded anime
film is a clip of a samurai resting his sword. It was a two-minute clip
but it made animation history.
Three decades into the 20th
century and Japanese animation artists were using the medium to tell
stories when the live-action industry had still not taken off. Incorporating
elements from traditional Japanese comics – also called manga –
anime was popular with both children and adults.
A few decades later, Osamu Tezuka, also
known as the Walt Disney of Japan, gave anime the launch pad it was
waiting for. Tezuka adapted Disney’s techniques to produce one that
cost less. It operated on the principle of “the suspension of disbelief”.
This meant using fewer frames to produce the illusion of movement.
Speaking of anime genres, here are some:
the Mecha genre, Super Robot, Go Nagai, Gundam and Macross. It was only
in the 1980s that anime grew in popularity outside Japan. Then, with
the growth of the Internet, anime wallpapers grew and flourished.
There are hundreds of anime wallpaper
sites that offer a range of things you can do. Apart from downloading
anime images that you can fix on your desktop, these sites offer –
hold your breath – anime songs complete with lyrics uploaded on YouTube;
anime chat, and even anime forums where everything to do with the art
form is discussed; anime games.
So if you love your anime wallpaper and
can’t get enough, what’s better than playing an anime game on the
Internet? Make no mistake. There’s a whole anime community out there
waiting to be discovered.
Some sites even invite you to drawn your
own anime sketched and mail them in. These are screened and if your
sketch is truly original and meets the site’s standards, why, they’ll
upload it for everyone to see!
And if you’re bored, just click on
quizzes, music downloads to the how-to-draw section and lose yourself
in the magical world of Japanese animation.
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