I don't really miss the golden age of fantasy art because I'm an active boardgamer and classic (and classy) fantasy artwork has never really left the field. Some examples , [url=https://cf.geekdo-images.com/images/pic1391437.jpg]here and here. Fantasy Flight Games is one of my favourite boardgame publishers, and that is in part due to their awesome breathtaking fantasy artwork.

So how do you feel about 80s anime games?

Because I like them!

Look at this cityscape!

And these interfaces, they're so lovely and techy!

Why can't we have more interfaces like this?

And why can't we have more mechas and robots?

https://media.giphy.com/media/3osxYeGOEoeMcGROnK/giphy.gif

http://www.hardcoregaming101.net/snatcher/snatcher-msx2.png

This is a game GOG needs.

http://i.imgur.com/kpziQTP.png

http://www.hardcoregaming101.net/46okunen/shinkaron-29.png

https://selectbutton.s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/original/3X/8/7/87265371da8187b4f58da8365d0d67fa17769d4f.jpg

The same way I feel about everything anime- I can't stand it. No, I'm all about western art. Don't get me wrong, if you like that japanese stuff- power to you. But if I never see another anime face again it will be too soon.

I'm sorry I love the Warcraft art style, so colorful and badass:

http://7wallpapers.net/wp-content/uploads/1_WOW-Varian-Wrynn.jpg

http://www.planwallpaper.com/static/images/42cfe42363ad2bdf41691afee99d4c99.jpg

http://www.imgbase.info/images/safe-wallpapers/video_games/world_of_warcraft/59115_world_of_warcraft_lich_king.jpg

https://images7.alphacoders.com/335/335570.jpg

I do agree about book covers for Fantasy and Sci Fi being boring though.

Fine, whatever. I'll keep the cool mechs off your table, but what do you think aside from the anime?

agreed, although I love the new art, it lacks the careful painted feeling of the old, using digital brushes out all the imperfections, everything is just a bit too perfect and easy

I have the original calendars put out by hilldebrant, and have collected frazetta in the past. all their art told a story, down to the tiniest details, which I would love to spend hours looking for after smoking a fat one... lol back in the day

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I agree for some of the old fantasy art, but the scifi one was often ugly :P

Looks like someone took too many stims.

Haha, but she's a mecha pilot. I wouldn't make fun of her.

Haha, that's funny. You know, many Europeans say that or something similar. Until it dawns on them that the most famous European cartoon series they loved as kids were animes, too. :-)

It's a little known fact that many of the famous European cartoon series from the late 70s and early 80s that were usually produced in West Germany (sometimes in cooperation with Switzerland and/or Austria) were actually drawn in Japan by Japanese contractors because that was a lot cheaper than drawing them here.

The most famous examples of these are probably , [url=http://akas.imdb.com/title/tt0070968/]Heidi, and [url=http://akas.imdb.com/title/tt0313124/]Bannertail.

so saber rider and the pirates of dark water were drawn in japan?

Maybe you could look at the works of Ohrai Noriyoshi (sadly deceased late 2015).

I know he was mostly known outside of Japan because of its Star Wars related works, and in Japan because of what he did concerning Godzilla, Koei games and WWII mostly, but he also did wonderful other works especially SciFi and historical vibes.

Sure he may have already been seen as "oldschool" after Y2K if you look at what most other artists did in the areas he worked for (ads, books, games), everything went "too anime" imho, and that resulted into the "everything looks the same" vibe we have today, sadly.
He wasn't the only one who had a very distinctful touch, but he is surely missed. :(

More famously, many cartoons in the 90s were drawn in Korea and Japan by famous studios. For example, Batman TAS (and company), Animaniacs, Futurama, and uh...Superbook. TMZ did animation for a lot of WB works.

Trust me, I'm not one of them. I didn't like any of the cartoons you linked, and I think they all look like crap :P

Which doesn't make them anime.