Calarts is such a shitty criticism. Literally every single decade for animation has a wide overlap of characteristics that could constitute an artstyle. Let us not forget 70s Hanna Barbera cartoons or the marketing deluge that was the 80s. Anyone who pushes this criticism is a fake animation fan.
Calarts is such a shitty criticism...
Parker Gonzalez
Kayden Moore
(((CalArts style))) may have been used so much as to become a generic complaint, but that style has been used for over a decade at this point and it's a dead giveaway you're watching a lazily made product. It was fine for its era, but that era is over and it's time to come up with something new.
Wyatt Gomez
don't care, it looks like shit
Brayden Scott
TACI MA IN PULA MEA DE CRACANAR.
Kayden Ramirez
This is such a strange hill to die on. No one is saying the 80s or 70s were a golden age of creativity and free expression. Pretty much every criticism of the Calarts style is used against Hannah Barbara and Filmation cartoons. Why do you get so defensive about shows made by soulless conglomerates?
Hudson Stewart
Seethe
Lincoln Bennett
>Calarts is such a shitty criticism.
Fuck off back to your drawing cubicle you cartoon wagie.
Oh wait. You can't.
You've just been laid off by the same corpos that made you learn this shitty art style in the first place.
Hunter Sanchez
>70s Hanna Barbera
Literally a single studio creating a cohesive style across its catalog of shows.
There's absolutely no excuse that multiple shows developed by multiple studios that Debuted on multiple stations should all look exactly the same.
Jayden Jackson
IMO the style itself isn't that bad, it's just that it's associated with a lot of other things signifying a decline in cartoons in the last decade, like SJW shit and trying to be deep
Parker Perry
it’s just fucking plain nothing special about it and relies on the writing of the cartoon to be good, usually it’s shit writing
Austin Campbell
The only show that is passable out of these is gumball, and surprise, outside of the main family, it's also the only one that's stylistically diverse. It's almost as if uninspired shows will tend to an uninspired style.
Jordan Stewart
So what's the last show you can think of that truly had a creative art style? Main thing that comes to mind is Gumball, which was like 12 years ago?
Joshua Young
>the blind man said
Juan Williams
NTA but the only ones I can think of are Primal and roTMNT.
Ayden King
Only the head shape and mouths are the only constant. That's like saying most anime look the same because of their approach to eyes and noses. The average viewer would be able to tell the different between 5 seconds of Gumball vs Gravity Falls vs BCG
Gabriel Harris
Gumball was several artstyles in one show, though
Jaxson Gray
Most of these are cartoons network studios shows. Also fish hooks and bread winners are a stretch.
John Campbell
I know you will tranny. We will complain about this garbage art style to the end of time and you will cry about it forever.
Jackson Perry
>it was bad before so stop complaining now
pathetic
And really, people complain so much because it looks awful
Anime is also looks mostly the same but only few complain
Adam White
Why are cartoons so ugly and geometric with no perspective? this cartoon was not made in California yet it looks the same. And it has been like this for the past 30 years, Pat Ventura-looking motherfuckers.
Nathan Evans
Because drawing interesting angles which are not on model and require redraw = money and time. Things that execs dont want to be wasted on. It's not like it even matters to all the lil baby zoomers growing up now. They all grew up on this garbage and dont know what good cartoons are, and as soon as any of them hit teen age they switch over to anime and never come back. These cartoons are for toddlers only who will watch anything and everything since it's all new to them.
Brayden Wilson
"Calarts" is a criticism describing the same phenomenon you saw with Hanna Barbera during the Smurfs era. Obviously it wasn't just Hanna Barbera doing this nonsense, but they embraced the model.
It's the mass production of low quality shows designed to be easily animated by interns. The technics are tired and boring, and technology has developed enough that a free lance jack ass on YouTube can produce something on par or better without much effort.
Bean face is a real thing, and I'm sick of animators making characters with enormous faces just so that they don't have to animate jaw movement.
Mason Myers
Say what you want about John K., but he was right.
Nathan Wright
Arcane
Henry Lopez
Animation student lecturing the audience of cartoons for seeing their work as the boring badly drawn crap it is, just like everyday
>Literally every single decade for animation has a wide overlap of characteristics that could constitute an artstyle.
Is Rugrats the same thing as Ren and stimpy? No. Twitter myth blown up.
Every single visual cliche has a source, it's not magically bestowed by the calendar switching to a new decade. This is just meant to get Cal Arts people out of investigating their laziness, which mainly comes from copying the original Disney films and spiting John K
Andrew Fisher
>primary colors
> (shows a bunch of tertiaries like purple, navy blue, orange)
Need to study more on your additive color systems, user