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Post by **Delphine** » Tue Dec 07, 2004 9:44 pm

I don't watch it religiously, but if it's on and I have nothing else to do I'll see if it's an ep I haven't seen yet. It's cute and even clever at times.

Neo Yi · Post by **Neo Yi** » Tue Dec 07, 2004 11:43 pm

One thing I enjoy about the Powerpuff girl (and Dexter's Lab) is the visual style they use. Powerpuff has that whole anime look on the girls (them big eyes), but enough western appeal to make it not look like some rip off which many western cartoons are doing (it irks me).

I don't watch as often as I like because I haven't had cable in years, but I watch it every chance I get. Who watches or don't, it's their lives.

Plus, I swear the character Him ties in with the mayor as my fave characters.
~Neo

chriscaffee · Post by **chriscaffee** » Tue Dec 07, 2004 11:53 pm

You mean those Western shows that rip off anime which is a rip off of Western shows?

Grant · Post by **Grant** » Tue Dec 07, 2004 11:54 pm

Everybody rips off everybody. It's just a matter of who hides it best.

Post by **Esrever** » Wed Dec 08, 2004 2:22 am

To be honest, I'm pretty sick of the style of shows like Powerpuff Girls. It looks neat enough the first time, but now it seems like every second show is done that way. I'm thinking of stuff like Dexter, Powerpuff Girls, Fairly Oddparents, Dave the Barbarian, even older stuff like Johnny Bravo or Two Stupid Dogs.

It is EXACTLY like how every Hanna Barbera cartoon used to look the same. They find one way of animating at a low cost and then they just do it over and over and over. The only difference is this time the cartoons are being made by several different studios! ;)

Rlan · Post by **Rlan** » Wed Dec 08, 2004 5:29 am

The Beat Alls episode was hilarious.

Mojo: I've got to get you into my life!

Mojo: I want to hold your cash!

Mojo: Will the people in the cheap seats please leave! And the rest of you, hand over your jewelry!

Fuzzy: I'm gonna let you down and leave you flat!

Princess: You say stop, but I say go, go, GO!

"Him": Goo goo GOT YOU!

Mojo: Better run for your lives if you can, little girls!

"Him": Ah, I should have known better.

Mojo: Now give me money! That's what I want!

And Sgt. Pepper and Moko Jono. I only occasionally watch PPG, but when you do you find it's actually quite clever.

They did an episode which was completely done as if it were a Rocky & Bullwinkle episode too.

http://www.rowdyruff.net/beatles.shtml

chriscaffee · Post by **chriscaffee** » Wed Dec 08, 2004 1:50 pm

I'm thinking of stuff like Dexter, Powerpuff Girls, Fairly Oddparents, Dave the Barbarian, even older stuff like Johnny Bravo or Two Stupid Dogs.

Ain't that cute? BUT IT'S WRONG!

Ash Holt · Post by **Ash Holt** » Wed Dec 08, 2004 2:11 pm

Esrever wrote:To be honest, I'm pretty sick of the style of shows like Powerpuff Girls. It looks neat enough the first time, but now it seems like every second show is done that way. I'm thinking of stuff like Dexter, Powerpuff Girls, Fairly Oddparents, Dave the Barbarian, even older stuff like Johnny Bravo or Two Stupid Dogs.

It is EXACTLY like how every Hanna Barbera cartoon used to look the same. They find one way of animating at a low cost and then they just do it over and over and over. The only difference is this time the cartoons are being made by several different studios! ;)

Don't all of those shows come from the same production company? It's a pretty standard thing for a production company to animate all of their projects the same way. It's cost effective and works as sort of a "signature."

Light Speed · Post by **Light Speed** » Wed Dec 08, 2004 7:45 pm

I don't think so. Some of those shows are on CN, while others are on Nickelodeon. I don't think they have a correllation.

Double-S- · Post by **Double-S-** » Wed Dec 08, 2004 8:05 pm

Isn't Dave the Barbarian on Disney?

Spazz · Post by **Spazz** » Wed Dec 08, 2004 9:18 pm

Yep.

Interesting fact: Many cartoons use various video game sound effects in their shows. In one episode of Dave the Barbarian, one of the characters was playing a "video game" and it was making a bunch of random sound effects, and somewhere in there, I heard the sound effect where Sonic or Tails touches an air bubble while underwater.

Double-S- · Post by **Double-S-** » Wed Dec 08, 2004 9:32 pm

Sounds like A LAWSUIT!!!

Post by **Delphine** » Wed Dec 08, 2004 9:35 pm

...I don't think you can copyright a sound effect, can you?

Grant · Post by **Grant** » Wed Dec 08, 2004 9:36 pm

Meep meep!

Post by **Esrever** » Wed Dec 08, 2004 9:50 pm

It's not all the same companies. It's just the new "in" style. It has a lot of advantages. Incredibly simple character construction means they can be drawn quickly, and outlandish cartoony design means that you don't have to worry much about keeping them on model. Spastic, abrupt movement keeps the number of animation frames needed pretty low. Characters are "flat", they can be drawn constantly from 3/4 view at eyelevel no matter where they are onscreen. Abstract, flat backgrounds can be whipped up quick, and big thick outlines will stop the characters from bluring into it even when everything is done in flat colours. It's just cheap, cheap, cheap in general.

Another good "house style" that is done more for economic than artist reasons is the Klasky Csuspo scribble. Rugrats, Ahh! Real Monsters, Wild Thornberries, Duckman... it's incredibly easy for the Korean studios to animate between keyframes because the characters never have to be on model. If you ever look at an individual frame of animation though, the characters quite often look pretty... well, scary.

Zeta · Post by **Zeta** » Wed Dec 08, 2004 10:10 pm

If you ever look at an individual frame of animation though, the characters quite often look pretty... well, scary.

They look that way constantly. Klasky Csupo characters are GROTESQUE. Eliza Thornberry, Dil Pickles, the entire cast of Rocket Power. They're disgusting homonuculoids that need to be destroyed for the sake of humanity's vision, everywhere.

The only good thing they've ever done, design-wise - was Real Monsters. Because the characters were supposed to be ugly. It just came naturally to their design team.