I was under the impression that what makes it anime are the manga origins and the signature lower frame-rate that anime has.
I got that from a documentary i watched. I'm no anime expert, by any means.
I swear I remember hearing about a live-action RE series a few years back, but I could be mistaken.
Mostly these days, anime just needs to primarily be a full Japanese production since there are studios that are creating projects that are animated by Japanese studios, but the studio in charge isn't Japanese and the market it is being made for isn't that of the Japanese market. Like the Transformers: Robot in Disguise CG animated show is an American production, but animated by Polygon Pictures, a Japanese company.
CG anime has also done that element of lower frame-rate like you are talking about, but I don't think it's required for an anime. Like Land of the Lustrous is a great anime, full CG, no low frame-rate, but there are other shows that mix it, which I think doesn't look super great, primarily stuff from Polygon Pictures who did like Knights of Sidonia, the Godzilla trilogy, and more recently Pacific Rim: The New Black, where character stuff is a lower frame frate, while the action is smoother. You get use to it, but I'd rather they just drop it entirely for a fully smooth animation.
so what would you call a western animated series
Such as the last airbender or castlevania
You don't call those cartoons right? That feels pretty wrong I'd say
I've seen some people try to justify Avatar as essentially being anime, but I personally just look at them as being anime inspired. They are an "Animated Series", but not "Anime". It's one of those things that there isn't exactly a super serious concrete definition, I just go with the idea that anime is primarily a Japanese production.
I knew I read something about it:
https://www.whats-on-netflix.com/news/resident-evil-season-1-on-netflix-everything-we-know-so-far-12-20/amp/
Oh yeah, guess there was something for that. I think that will make for a third project, not that this CG show is the replacement, since the CG show would likely have already been in development at this point in time and that this live action will come out later on. Unless they did just cancel it, but we'll have to see.