Eisaku Inoue -
Anime
Convention Personality of the Week - August 26, 2007
Realism isn't the factor that
comes to mind when you consider the wildly exaggerated art that makes
the One Piece pirate comedy popular in all of its forms, but artist and
animator Eisaku Inoue says that's a factor. "It's a fusion between the
basics of realism and the basics of comedy that I love to draw," Inoue
said at Anime Expo. He got his start in the animation world with the
production company that created Space Cruiser Yamato and that
experience led him to One Piece's designs, which aren't as exaggerated
to the artist as you might think. "If you want to do comedy, and that's
the genre I said was my favorite, I would have to have the (artistic)
basics down. Comedy artists need to understand anatomy and physiology.
You can't do good comedy without doing that, so I brushed up on
the photorealistic skills for drawing. That has become a part of me,
and I've been able to use that in drawing One Piece." While Americans
who import anime say sci-fi and action
series outsell other series, Inoue sees series that feature cute girls
as the heart of the otaku culture, and thinks there are nearly too many
of those series. "I think what is next to come is a reversion to the
starting point, and animation that is geared to the younger audiences,"
he said.
Realism isn't the factor that
comes to mind when you consider the wildly exaggerated art that makes
the One Piece pirate comedy popular in all of its forms, but artist and
animator Eisaku Inoue says that's a factor. "It's a fusion between the
basics of realism and the basics of comedy that I love to draw," Inoue
said at Anime Expo. He got his start in the animation world with the
production company that created Space Cruiser Yamato and that
experience led him to One Piece's designs, which aren't as exaggerated
to the artist as you might think. "If you want to do comedy, and that's
the genre I said was my favorite, I would have to have the (artistic)
basics down. Comedy artists need to understand anatomy and physiology.
You can't do good comedy without doing that, so I brushed up on
the photorealistic skills for drawing. That has become a part of me,
and I've been able to use that in drawing One Piece." While Americans
who import anime say sci-fi and action
series outsell other series, Inoue sees series that feature cute girls
as the heart of the otaku culture, and thinks there are nearly too many
of those series. "I think what is next to come is a reversion to the
starting point, and animation that is geared to the younger audiences,"
he said. 