When I see it in my head, it's mostly live-action, although certain scenes come through more in animation, because as hard as I try, I just can't see a 3D Washu(u). Then again, a cartoon Minbari is also next-to-impossible for me to visualize. When I try to visualize Mia (or G'kron, for that matter) next to Washuu, I get brainfault.

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Animated. Animation can do anything RL can, and quite a few things RL just can't. (Watched either of the Flintstones live-action movies lately, for instance? GOD but I hate those.)

>When I see it in my head, it's mostly live-action, although certain
>scenes come through more in animation, because as hard as I try, I
>just can't see a 3D Washu(u).

Which reminds me, I must nag Phil again to attempt a pic of the Red Avenger. }:-{D

> Then again, a cartoon Minbari is also
>next-to-impossible for me to visualize.

Two words: Babylon Park.

> When I try to visualize Mia
>(or G'kron, for that matter) next to Washuu, I get brainfault.

That's just normal reaction to Washuu-chan. }:-{D

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I don't. Toon. Definitely toon.

I can just _see_ the scene in Core 4, with Gryph on the gravbike roaring over thousands of square miles of devestated flat at suicidal speeds, and then the synthesizer starts it intro and all around him this lighttunnel appears, flashes and crashes and missiles snapping past like lightning...

The only two scenes I can think of to match that visual impact are _Fearless_'s pursuit of _Sirius_ and the Imperial Guard's last engagement with the Achuultanni.

That kind of impact _defines_ anime, at least as far as I'm concerned.

Blessed be.
Nathan Baxter

Definitely.

My default, when I'm reading any work of prose, is to visualize in live-action. There are times when I see UF, and Eyrie works in general, animated, particulary in big action sequences, but mostly it's live-action. And it's not out of any preference for live-action as a medium; it's just how I see things. Animation gives the creator a great deal more flexibility and control over the end product, limited only by time and expense, while live action is capable of producing subtleties and spontaneities that are just about impossible in animation. CGI bridges a lot of that gap, but it's still difficult, at best, to do certain things that are believable in animation but impossible in live action. (Anime certainly goes a lot farther in this direction than American animation. Chibi and SD characters come to mind.) Remember that a great deal of Episode 1, particularly action scenes, was almost entirely CG.

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Both. Neither. Impossible to say. My mind doesn't often work that way. I may see a particular bit of action or an overall style as being similar to this or that, but when I'm considering a particular scene I don't think, "OK, here's Utena, as she appears in the television series, and Corwin as designed by the designer from Big O, standing in front of the live-action Wedge." I just think, "It's Utena and Corwin in front of the Wedge."

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SOS is real life, because I can walk down the street and see Bancroft Tower,
the Crown Plaza, the Worcester Auditorium, and WPI.

Twilight is more anime, for the big battle scenes.

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Hmmm, that was a pointless post... but it is on topic, I guess...

-Craig "I find your lack of ellipsis... disturbing..." Perko

This is true for all my reading of Eyrie-fic, too, including such hard-to-realize things as the Evangelions wandering through Worcester in NXE.

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I maust say that I really don't know . Full visual is mostly
not available , since my mind goes around the feel and Idea
of the character more than the image .

That said , when it does do Image it's more often anime than
not , but with craft and such done in the manner of Blue
Submarine no.6 .

My avatar in the fic I'm working on ... umm ...
best bet would be a younger Arugess from Appleseed , without that
eye thing he's got , smoother features , and with a shack of hair .
And sometimes it just looks like a black Carnage gone anime with a
T-1000 motif .

<cue 'Can I Play With Madness' here>

-Griever
"No! I am not Prince Hamlet, nor was meant to be; Am an attendant lord, one that will do To swell a progress, start a scene or two, Advise the prince; no doubt, an easy tool, Deferential, glad to be of use, Politic, cautious, and meticulous; Full of high sentence, but a bit obtuse; At times, indeed, almost ridiculous-- Almost, at times, the Fool."

~Yes, the CHILD.