They even white-washed Arnold for fucks sake. Took away his curly hair and his nose. At least the new animation is reflective of the anxiety kids face these days
They even white-washed Arnold for fucks sake. Took away his curly hair and his nose. At least the new animation is reflective of the anxiety kids face these days
I hate how animation is so consistent now. They all have almost identical faces. The characters are just dolls they dress up with modular pieces. So everything has to be swappable and standardized. It all looks so sterile. I feel like that also serves the function of blocking criticism for racial caricature. If you're designing a POC character you might be prone to unconsciously do exaggerated features or make the features of others monolithic (always frizzy hair, always large lips, always very slanted eyes, etc). But with this style the only real differentiating feature is the color. Everyone has equally unoffensive and bland features. So not only does it make everything cheaper, it also lets them make a racial statement with having 30 skin tones but not really risk pissing anyone off but bigots.
I have no evidence to support this, but I'm 100% sure that it's due to them switching over to computer-generated animation for cost cutting purposes. The kids all look like they were made in a South Park character generator.
the bottom line is, there are a limited amount of studios wordwide that can churn out animation on the nanofiber budgets these things get made on nowadays, so yeah, it's a mix of standardization, automation and good old outsourcing to countries with fewer worker protections
You could make good animation in Flash or similar programs, but they don't give these shows the budget necessary to do good animation, so it all ends up looking like the "default".
That is the case. It's way more expensive to have someone doing it all by hand
Christ, even South Park managed to accessorize. Frizzle lost her patterned shirt and stylized earings, ffs.
Imagine taking the mustache off Stan's dad or Mr. Macky without his comically oversized head.
They white washed the white people!