So why was him redesigned? Did they forgot Steve Irwin already showed up in early seasons?
So why was him redesigned? Did they forgot Steve Irwin already showed up in early seasons?
So why was him redesigned? Did they forgot Steve Irwin already showed up in early seasons?
they redesign almost every returning celebrity that showed up in the early seasons
>inb4 sovl vs sovlless
What are other examples?
Bill Gates for example
Heck, even Mecha Barbara Streisand
Soul and souless
Crudeness was originally part of the charm but now everything’s gotta be as detailed as possible
that ones fair since he did age like 25 years since then
South Park does have a bit of an Arthur situation where you’ve got 90% of the cast looking pretty basic and then the celebrity guests are all borderline distractingly overdesigned but most of these are also easily explained by “these people are still alive and they look different today than in the late 90s/early 00s.”
Barbra Streisand
bush is the most obvious one, they dont even look like the same character
I suppose this one is okay, because the first one doesn't even really look like Dubya
But the rest are literally examples of
SOVL vs soulless
Bush on the left is supposed to be the actor from that’s my Bush
Elton John
The Danish
Jared Fogle before he got outed as a pedo.
Anyone else think that making the newer characters look "better" actually makes them look worse? It's not even about "old sour, new soulless", giving South Park style construction paper characters detailed facial expressions and angles dips into the uncanney valley at times.
>the uncanney valley
Stop misusing this term you fricking moron. You'd have to be a pure schizoid with no grasp of reality to think a south park character is capable of approaching the uncanny valley.
Anon these characters literally have distinctly realistic human features in artstyle that's two steps away from being stick figures. How is that NOT Uncanny Valley?
>How is that NOT Uncanny Valley?
Because uncanny valley is the tiny area where something looks so incredibly close to human that you can't put your finger on what's "off" about it, and so it becomes way more repulsive than something that looks less human. Not whatever moronic thing you believe it means.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uncanny_valley
agreed
shut up you pedantic c**t
Please tell me what you believe the uncanny valley refers to. Just something that looks a bit uncanny?
>Haha get it guys? He died like this
i dont get it
The art style really degraded over time huh
They were creating a whole new model for him standing at that angle with the stingray in his chest for the one joke, it was probably easier to just build it from scratch rather than salvage the original model especially when they designs are pretty similar anyway.
>the one joke
What's the joke?
There was a costume party in Hell, and you see Irwin there. Satan says that it's too soon to be using that as a costume, then Irwin says it's actually him. Then Satan says that Irwin has to leave since he wasn't wearing a costume.
>>ITT being born in 20xx
Salt water drinking lead chewing carbon dioxide breathing stains on society.
Sorry, pools closed due to HIV
One of the brilliant things about South park was that is was a "Quiet Little Mountain Town" so it was a perfect setting for a show that couldn't make big crowds and maybe a few if any buildings in the background but as the show went on this concept was lost more and more things were added to . This small town whose entire economic center was a single street now suddenly had a mall, a zoo, a sperm bank, a fitness club, a walgreens, a synagogue (even though it's been implied Kyle's Family are the only israelites in town), and a Wal-mart that was portrayed as an evil entity that destroyed all the small businesses suddenly reappeared randomly in an episode over 8 seasons later.
That’s what happens when the creators have been living in LA for decades
Some ofvthe aspects of the early episodes that are timelessly funny is that small town charm. The fact they have one police officer who can't read. The public access channel that plays a jesus talk show, the fact that the mayor is always trying to do shit to make the town seem more important than it acyually is. Just stuff that leads to funny scenarios in general rather than trying to be topical all the time.
It's hard to think of an animated show this doesn't apply to.
Early seasons have more crude animation but are also more creative/charming. As the show goes on its production pipeline becomes standardized, and the creativity is slowly sucked out in favor of sterility.
I think it applies to artists in general. I'm finding it hard to think of any artists who didn't make all their best work early-ish into their career