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

  • Woly [any]
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    4 years ago

    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.

    • save_vs_death [they/them]
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      4 years ago

      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

    • ssjmarx [he/him]
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      4 years ago

      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".

    • zifnab25 [he/him, any]
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      4 years ago

      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.