Why don't cartoons often have characters in different clothes every episode?

Why don't cartoons often have characters in different clothes every episode?

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Budget.

Because that would be hard, complicated and very expen$$$ive

The Weekenders made it work

They did it with Totally Spies as well.

You know, I sometimes wonder about this, too. I mean, I would understand if the character(s) were trapped in a world with only the clothes on themselves like Digimon and Amphibia or if it's a uniform like the campers in Camp Lazlo and Superjail but in a normal setting like ours? Now that I don't understand other than "it looks nice" and "it's way easier doing the same thing than having to think of creating different clothing for every other episode".

I WANNA FUCK THAT GOTH

Brit > Tiff

Because character design is very important. For main characters, cartoonists will often go through dozens of drafts until they fixate on the design that works. And clothes are often part of that design. Why makes changes just for the sake of change when the result if probably going to be worse than the design you have carefully created?

budget and do you know how many different model sheets you would have to create just for each episode

What exactly do you think that cartoon budgets go to? it costs the same amount of money to pay an animator to draw a character in one outfit as it does another as long as it's nothing overly complicated that takes more time to draw. Literally the only thing it takes to give a character a new outfit is to design a new model sheet for them wearing it, which doesn't add much of anything to production because most shows require multiple new model sheets an episode anyway for the sake of new characters, be they mainstays, one-offs, incidental characters, or background filler.

Some outfits don't need changing

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I dunno. Maybe they're just that cheap

I don't buy that one design alone will suit a character. If that were true, it would apply to live-action as well. Unless they really are an obsessive person who would want to wear 1 outfit their whole lives, you can say more about their character by showing more wardrobe.
And no one has ever gotten confused about a character's personality because their clothes change.

I honestly think it's for the sake of merchandising and promo images. If a character has one outfit, it becomes the iconic normal image to put on products, ads etc. It subtly adds to their instant recognizability, so audiences can see them from a distance for a moment and know who it is.

In the context of the actual show, there's not much reason other than to reinforce the image used in merchandising.

Because the animators can't be assed enough to add some variety

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Can you be bothered to come up with a new design,every episode, and animate it to perfection?

I'm guessing it's just too much of a pain. And it usually works better for fashionista type characters

CalArts made laziness the norm

Because most animated shows design clothes as part of the physical identity, and changing them every single time can either make them unrecognizable or kill the overall look of the character. Crust Cousins works because constant wardrobe change is in fact part of their characterization and sometimes holds significance depending on the episode/theme.

They would need to create a new model sheet for every single episode.

Many Characters having the same outfit has existed for a long time you dingus

It's faster if you already drew the same outfits a thousand times.

Ah, and as someone making a cartoon I suppose you want your characters to look 'iconic' so you make them look the same much as possible.

No it's not. It's just incredibly difficult to constantly design new outfits for the characters and even more difficult to remember to do this every episode.

Why don't cartoons have their female characters wearing as little as possible?

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>t. Never animated in his life
You still need someone to keep track of the clothes the characters are wearing between episodes and even scenes within those episodes. This also means that you are far more liable to fuck up shots because your adding more variables that the crew may not be paying full attention of. Redoing animation because of a consistency error is expensive user and leaving a consistency error makes the product look cheap a shoddy. Having simple consistent designs just saves the production from a lot of problems that can cause budgetary expenses or visual errors that may leave a producer asking why they're spending so much on the show if the artists can't maintain quality.

The boondocks did.

>he asks while posting the inferior Crust

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That would take effort and work. Besides modern "animators" can barely draw a human and have resorted to shapeless blobs or geometric shapes, so I say we have greater problems.

- Added work for little to no payoff
- Implies a specific timeline to seasons and episodes which might not be desirable...

No. It doesn't. You have to actually design the outfit too, you idiot. That takes time and effort better spent in other places since time is finite.

oh shut the fuck up you

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