• morphballganon@mtgzone.comEnglish
      27·
      10 小时前

      I think it’s a joke? Or bait?

      All of these characters, old and new, look like the below faces when drawn in a happy-go-lucky pose. OP went and found distraught/mischievous/disgusted frames of old characters and displayed them opposite concept art-style sketches of modern characters’ happy-go-lucky poses.

  • ThotDragon@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
    58·
    13 小时前

    Choosing gumball as an example of how samey cartoons are shows the person who made this has never watched the show.

    Also phineas and ferb would like a word.

  • Sekoia@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
    841·
    13 小时前

    I don’t think Dipper ever makes that face, Gumball looks nothing like the other shows (love Gumball’s style tho, amazing mix of style), I haven’t watched the other two much

    Also the top covers like 80 years of animation and not 10

    • Snot Flickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
      652·
      12 小时前

      Both Gravity Falls and the Amazing World of Gumball have absolutely top tier writing. 100% both Dipper and Gumball are “off-model” in OPs image. For this seemingly being a “we’re so sick of the CalArts style” example people must not know that the creator of Gumball, Ben Bocquelet, is fucking French and the show is produced in Europe.

      I’m in my forties and Gumball is legitimately one of the funniest cartoons I have seen in two decades.

      Also, Gumball stands out on it’s own because the norm for cartoons for a long time has seemed to have been the Gravity Falls/Adventure Time/Steven Universe formula of comedy mixed with a bunch of serious undertones and long-form story. There is no long-form story with Gumball, with the voice actors literally resetting multiple times and making jokes about switching voices no less. There hasn’t really been an extremely funny cartoon of that variety (that I have seen personally) since the Marvelous Misadventures of Flapjack, and Gumball positively outshines Flapjack.

      Finally, it also ignores how Gumball absolutely pulls faces like this. Here’s a couple screenshots I just pulled from episodes I remember.

      EDIT: In other news a new season of Gumball after a seven year haitus is dropping later this month.

    • Bldck@beehaw.orgEnglish
      9·
      12 小时前

      I believe the bottom is from a “how to draw characters from X show in Y show style”

  • megopie@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
    142·
    10 小时前

    To some extent it’s a result of how American animation has evolved to embrace animation software to reduce costs and moved away from hand drawn inbetween frames.

    It’s not a bad thing, just an approach that leads to certain restrictions.

    • Doc_Crankenstein@slrpnk.netEnglish
      6·
      7 小时前

      In terms of artistic quality and creativity, it most certainly is a bad thing. You can literally see the decline in quality and homogenization of style.

        • Doc_Crankenstein@slrpnk.netEnglish
          6·
          7 小时前

          The Simpsons one is telling. Just look at how Bart moves at the very beginning, the reaction to the bell going off. The OG bart is more “animated” (full of motion) than the rest, especially the modern version, even if it is more sloppy. Yet, that sloppiness was part of the charm of Simpsons. That’s what made them feel like toons.

          Yea the modern version has “depth” with the 3D effects but everything looks so stiff.

      • megopie@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
        11·
        3 小时前

        ah yes where would we be with out the artistic heights of bugs bunny. Clearly steven universe and gravity falls are complete artistic failures in comparison to that monument of cultural achievement.

        • stray@pawb.socialEnglish
          2·
          15 分钟前

          As an animated work, Steven Universe is kind of garbage. There are YouTube essays out there detailing its problems, but it’s most glaring when a guest animator takes over a small portion of the series and blows the entire thing out of the water.

          The OP is disingenuous, but animation is having a problem these days with restricted budgets, homogenized designs, and poor use of digital tools. Quality animation was always expensive and therefore in the minority, but the everyday budget stuff is worse than in the past. There are recent series that I can’t even watch due to awful framerates and bad CGI.

  • fartographer@lemmy.worldEnglish
    8·
    11 小时前

    I can hear that Ren and Stimpy episode (both frames are from the same episode).

    And you wanna know what else? I’m gonna hit ya! And you’re gonna faaaallll… *points at ground* And I’m gonna look down, and I’m gonna laaaaugh…