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[ SECRET POST #5938 ]

⌈ Secret Post #5938 ⌋

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[Our Flag Means Death]

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[The Untamed]

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I feel this, but particularly with figurines. Like I do not want a million ugly Funko Pops, I want a figurine of the characters to look like the actual characters. I'm aware it's cheaper to make a base model and alter it to look like a character the way Funko does, but I just don't like 'em.

Funkos all have the same exact dead-eyed stare and I really don't find them appealing.

I haven't been able to look at them the same since I watched Detective Pikachu and its take on Ditto.

Agree. I liked them at first because they were a bit different, but they've been everywhere for so long now, the novelty has really worn off.

You had to use a pic of noodles during Passover. *weeps*

This commenter is Ashkenazi!

Mung bean noodles! Potato pasta! Okay, it was getting desperate and also I live with a celiac person, so there were some weird things around.

I'm gonna need more details here, chief. What do you mean by noodle arms? Are you judging all manga and game design as if they were all One Piece or is this from a specific subset of designs common in your fandom circles? And if so, do you just need to get better recs?

I mostly see noodle arms in western animation. Although tbh, there ARE cartoons without them. Even then, there do tend to be stylized heads/faces.

Not OP but personally I was thinking Adventure Time

NAYRT

That is a good example. I liked that show well enough, but I could never really get into the character designs, because they were quite noodley and strange.

I want to devour a noodle-armed anime now. The picture made me hungry.

I could really go for a bowl of spicy noodles right now.

... okay, color me confused because I grew up in the 80s and 90s and some of the shows I watched as a kid included: Doug, Rugrats, Garfield & Friends, The Flintstones, Inspector Gadget, Rainbow Brite, Beetlejuice, Strawberry Shortcake, and The Jetsons, all of which were very cartoon-y/stylized. It's not like that's a new thing.

Ok, go to google images. Look up pictures of Garfield, a frequently bipedal cartoon cat. Now look at Gumball, also a bipedal cartoon cat.

Sorry if you're still confused about the difference, but that's all I got on short notice.

If you think Garfield looks any more like a real cat than Gumball does, I have to wonder if you’ve ever even seen a real cat.

Cats must be pretty weird where you come from if this:
https://images.app.goo.gl/duZXSVQmPBigdfd99

and this:
https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/8b830910-f3eb-454c-9208-5bc95591ce74/scale-to-width/755

are equally recognizable as cats to you.

seems unfair to compare a cat-cat and an anthro-cat

one of these is wearing clothes. it'd be farther from base cat regardless of stylization

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To be fair to Gumball, he’s part cat, part rabbit. So he doesn’t look as obviously cat-like in his ears than his mother.

For me, it's that all of the cartoons you just listed had varied and distinct proportions all around--not necessarily more "realistic" obviously, but there was a variety.

Personally, I miss textures.Take 80s Strawberry Shortcake. Those characters were definitely proportioned like dolls (go figure) and not real-life miniature people living in a strawberry patch. But they had different textures of hair and clothing and skin. The animals were hairy or scaly or fluffy looking. Compare that to something like Adventure Time where most of the characters are just uniformly kind of flat, smooth and sometimes shiny.

Man, I kind of want some soba now. Or somen.

Same.

There are several animated shows that have more realistic character designs. And there have also been unrealistic looking human characters since the start of animated media. It’s fine not to like the style of art in some shows, but that doesn’t mean every show uses that art style, or that the art style is actually a problem. A lot of the shows I think you’re referring to are still pretty good, they just look cartoonish.

I still do get where you’re coming from in a way. I won’t pretend to love the art style for shows like Gravity Falls or Steven Universe. But I still love the shows anyways. I think the art for some of them is good though, like She-Ra and the Princesses of Power. I think that show’s character and art designs are overhated.

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