Why Manga Studio?

FWal · Post by **FWal** » Mon Aug 20, 2007 7:04 pm

I'm not really a fan of Anime or Manga as art forms at all. But anime studio is so great, I wonder why e frontier chose to make another studio. It may be me being ignorrant of the diffrences, but I really don't see any beetween Anime and Manga. And besides...Anime Studio can be used for any type of animation form anyways. It just confused me...heh thanks in advance for your replies!

slice11217 · Post by **slice11217** » Mon Aug 20, 2007 7:19 pm

I'm no anime or manga fan yet as I understand things, manga is the comic book form of anime. It's inked a little more carefully, and Manga Studio therefore, is a drawing software tailored for comic book production. I don't own Manga Studio personally, but it looks like it can do some pretty nice stuff. I wonder how it compares to some of the industry standards like Illustrator and their ilk.

funksmaname · Post by **funksmaname** » Mon Aug 20, 2007 7:49 pm

Manga is a still comic book format, Anime is animation...
Manga studio is for laying out comic books, Anime Studio is for creating animation. Also both each package was created by a different company all together but both were bought out by eFrontier.

heyvern · Post by **heyvern** » Mon Aug 20, 2007 9:13 pm

Manga Studio was a product from e-frontier before they brought "Moho" into their product line up.

Manga studio is more true to its name than "Anime Studio" is in my opinion.

They changed Moho to "Anime Studio" to keep it sort of "in the family" I suppose. To create a family of products with a similar name.

I don't think there was anything more to the name than that. And to cash in on the popularity of the anime genre possibly.

Moho and Anime Studio in its current version, are identical so "Anime" in the name is relatively meaningless. I've learned to ignore it. It's still... "Moho" in my mind.

-vern

Patmals · Post by **Patmals** » Mon Aug 20, 2007 9:22 pm

I still think it is so sad that they changed two great product names to reflect a 'target audience'
especially in the case of manga studio. because it's original title is "COMICSTUDIO", which has far less a pigeonholing effect than MANGA STUDIO. And the software IS Japanese - so why change the name?
I think it would turn away potential artists from such great software. It creates a stigma.
I like both products. Why did they do this? There was a poll (sent to e-frontier customers) to choose on a new name for MOHO.
I CERTAINLY didn't choose ANIME STUDIO.
Oh well. it's the products themselves that counts.

F.M. · Post by **F.M.** » Mon Aug 20, 2007 10:22 pm

Long live Moho!

Touched · Post by **Touched** » Tue Aug 21, 2007 2:58 am

My understanding of Manga Studio it's a sort of specialised Photoshop-sort of program that eases certain tedious tasks that are specific to comics, especially black-and-white comics, such as screen tones (the dot patterns used to make grey tones in printed reproduction) or other comic effects such as speed lines, as well as panel layouts. Speaking as someone who hates drawing comics, but loves creating animation, the two are very different niches.

And speaking of the name "Anime Studio", I was briefly confused a few days ago when I saw a news item say:

Anime studio Bones will release the anime feature Mukoh Hadan (Sword of the Stranger) in Japan in September.

?

? I was thinking "a Japanese feature using Anime Studio's bones?" Then I realised, it's a production studio called "Bones".

funksmaname · Post by **funksmaname** » Tue Aug 21, 2007 8:54 am

Manga studio is more true to its name than "Anime Studio" is in my opinion.

I don't agree - its just a comics program thats about as 'Manga' as AnimeStudio is 'Anime'... as in AS, you get out what you put in!

Also, rather than like photoshop exactly, it is mostly vector based i think, but for comics creators, the pannel layout functions and the special effect textures are probably really useful.

shoepie · Post by **shoepie** » Tue Aug 21, 2007 9:05 am

I always thought Manga was a brand name not a generic term! (oh well, live and learn)

When people ask me I still tell people I use Moho

although a bit annoying to have to add in brackets (It's now been renamed to....etc.).