Backdrops are called backdrops for a reason—they’re designed to fade against the focus of a particular scene. But as a new single-serving Tumblr called Anime Backgrounds proves, sometimes the best art ...

Anime is art, and the medium impresses fans with more than just its stories. There are some anime which catch the eye with their flashy effects, and others which use soft tones and muted beauty.

Surprisingly, the majority of time and effort Japanese animators put into a typical anime may not be on the enormous, physics defying breasts of female protagonists, but on the one thing in any movie ...

For fans of Hayao Miyazaki, Makoto Shinkai and Satoshi Kon, a Chinese research team from Wuhan University and Hubei University of Technology has created a way to turn photographs into anime-style ...

There have been many Studio Ghibli-related art books released over the years, but this compilation of background art in one huge volume is something else entirely. All that stuff aside, what this book ...

The most important hallmarks of anime are their art styles. Viewers can gain a lot of information about a show just by looking at its characters. There are many subsets within the different genres, ...