This is one of the worst designs of all time.
Matt Groening is a fricking terrible character designer and artist and the cultural influence of the Simpsons is one of the worst things to happen to the medium of animation and its aesthetics.
The flat, uniform-line-weight, over-regulated "every character is a strict series of simple tubes and spheres" approach to character design set animation as an art form back by years.
And that's on top of how it essentially kicked off a wave of "adult animation" from its loose parody of sitcom tropes, where all the animation was just as lifeless and the premise/plots made essentially no imaginative use of animation as a medium, or as I like to put it, "Cartoons for people who don't enjoy cartoons".
there's also a lot of other dimensions to how the simpsons and cartoons like it are responsible for a total absence of energy or style, like score, clothing design, visual storytelling, etc.
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a good example of a show with an actually good style. its a shame we don't get anything like this anymore.
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ok it's true. i came in thinking this was low quality bait but it did make me think. it's sad, really. the simpsons were so beloved because of the funny witty writing, for being one of the first successful cartoon for adults or teens, and thus their style became iconic. but in trying to imitate their success lame animators figured it was easier to just kinda trace the style and make bad unfunny writing because it's way easier to draw bad and write bad.
matt's style was good for their purpose but sadly it was a terrible butterfly effect on the industry, especially on the adult animation side, we still can't shake it off 30+ years later.
Ok I will make this thread again next week but I won't be using bart simpson as an OP image because obviously his visage is either a honeypot or a trigger for moronation seeing how this thread is going
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Seemed pretty effective to me.
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Thats why the south park kid characters are superior. Look at Stan Marsh. Hes so cute and adorable, it makes you feel like youre a pedo only for him. Hes small, i dont judge that guy who molested Stan in that episode. I too would do the same.
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Yeah it's too abstract
this is like how The Beatles are regarded as shit now, it's because their influence has run so deep that it makes their source albums sound vanilla by comparison
It's not Matt's fault people can't think for themselves.
He drew how he wanted to, he never told anyone to copy him.
i don't think matt suspected he'll reach that level of popularity in his life in hell days.
Why did Gravity Falls copy this art style from the early 90's?
I've always though that he didn't have hair. only a very rough top of his skull
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on the other hand it's uncanny that Groening predicted Andrew Tate's chin 36 years ago
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>The flat, uniform-line-weight, over-regulated "every character is a strict series of simple tubes and spheres" approach to character design set animation as an art form back by years.
How dafaq does that describe The Simpsons? Most of the main characters look fairly 3D and while the designs of newer characters are awful, it's more because they're too realistic than anything else.
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Why tf didn’t they have any chins?
tbf while mr. groening may be responsible for the "sphere eyes and tube limbs" you see in most adult cartoons, i doubt he really pioneered it due to all the cool camera angles and imperfections of cel animation
'sides, if it weren't for him, mankind wouldn't have the bootleg bart movement
>mr. groening
how formal for Cinemaphile
That pic is SOVL.
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>the cultural influence of the Simpsons is one of the worst things to happen to happen to the medium of animation and its aesthetics
Unironically this. Everyone shit on Family Guy (rightfully) but no one ever point out how the former started all the bullshit the later tried to mimic.
Why Is Every Fricking Word Capitalized. Unreadable.
still better than how brad bird draws.
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