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I've wondered this too, and then been told that people 'can't relate' to human faces and can't read the expressions. I guess I am the opposite most anime/manga faces are meaningless to me as far as expression goes.

people 'can't relate' to human faces and can't read the expressions

wtf

actually not uncommon in autistic people. they may genuinely read drawn expressions (simpler and less nuanced) better than actual faces.

+1

I play characters with both LA and drawn icons and have a difficult time assigning icons to tags with my LA journals I don't have with my drawn icons.

valid signs of neurodivergency aside, la icons are also very dark and teensy compared to brightly colored, exaggerated animu faces

tbh one of the big reasons i don't play from much la is because i HATE trying to icon it. it takes a lot more effort to icon an la show and actually make it look good than it does something animated or drawn because the lighting in so many la shows is so genuinely goddamn awful.

This is why I pay for icons. Especially since my LA characters are from newer canons and being allergic to a well lit scene is trendy right now for some reason

the lack of good lighting is the worst TV trend ever. the house of dragons show? game of thrones? sometimes I genuinely can't tell what's happening because it's so badly lit.

I recently treated myself to paying someone else to make my icons and wow - they did a significantly better job than I ever could making the images visible while keeping the colors balanced, and it saved me a headache. I'm setting money aside to get icons made as a regular little treat for myself now.

My friends, open up a curves adjustment layer and play with the settings. It will change your LA iconning life.

what does it mean if animanga faces seem more nuanced and expressive than actual faces?

it means you should consume more mcu, you fucking weeb

fuck lmao

would have appreciated a good faith answer tbh

babe you are on wankgate right now

yeah, more fool me

but idk, we've been able to have reasonable discussions before

lmao

as someone who's pretty seriously faceblind, i don't have any problem reading expressions but if you cast 5 different dark-haired white dudes with chiseled jawlines in one show i can't follow the plot because i literally can't tell them apart unless they're very distinctively styled.

drawn character designs tend to be much more distinctive and individualized.

as a result my viewing habits are heavy on animated and fantasy shows (comic book adaptations are also p solid on maintaining distinctive character design in casting!) and light on prestige drama. the majority of the media i consume is novels and podcasts, but finding PBs and making icons for the characters is a gd nightmare so i don't generally play from them.

I'm also bad with faces! animated characters are easier since they tend to have huge easy to spot differences. like hair color or hair style or wearing One Outfit.

this is weird because i have probably a *little* bit of a hard time telling human faces apart, but my brain can't tell drawn faces/figures apart unless they're insanely different - stuff in the same art style just looks exactly the same to me across the board, different hair colors or styles don't really register. what strange meatbags we are.

the brain is just so weird!

i've heard that people who aren't faceblind tend to be unconsciously sensitive to relative proportions in the face, like distance between eyes and eyebrows, forehead size, nose size and length, relationship of mouth to chin to nose, etc, and those proportions tend to be very static within animated art styles (like, you've got 5 teenage girls in your magical girl anime cast, they all have similar big eyes and thin eyebrows and the same small nose and the same mouth size with different hairstyles and colors and costume designs)

meanwhile faceblind people often focus on details like hair color and style, distinctive clothing, etc.

so i wonder if people who are faceblind are more likely to see characters in the same art style with different designs as distinctive, while people who aren't faceblind are more likely to think they look really alike? which would make the entry barrier to anime lower for faceblind people unfamiliar with the artistic conventions than for face-seeing people equally unfamiliar...

yeah! i can tell humans apart because their faces look different, i will still recognize my sister even if she's wearing a wig and different clothes. but if a bunch of characters all have the same face with different hair and clothes, it just looks like the same person and no amount of reminding myself that character a is blonde and wears pink but character b has blue hair and wears red will help, my brain will technically remember it as trivia but not be able to differentiate when looking at the pictures.

i still remember vividly the time someone (not in DWRP) was insisting that portraying sexual arousal with a nosebleed was a completely intuitive expression that any human could easily understand and anyone who didn't was being purposefully obtuse or was developmentally delayed (not the word he used, natch)

he then explained to us the four steps of thinking that led to it, as if having to make four logical steps to read a facial expression is in any way natural and intuitive

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