Everyones hates the cute and soft calarts style here, so what do YOU want the elements of the next big artstyle to be? Draw or post some examples of where you'd want the medium to go from here.
QOTD: Are there any show's who's artstyle you'd like the next gen of cartoons to adopt?
ITT: we make make the 2020's artstyle
Chase Anderson
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Nolan Miller
I dunno, I rather feel the cartoon design should match the genre of the cartoon. I feel the major mistake today is making the same style for every show. It’s not a one size fits all solution, and if anything it makes it look like a ripoff of something else.
More anatomically correct (1970-80 in your chart) for action shows. I have no idea why tv shows strayed so far away from that when it looks so bad when they do.
Comedy shows would depend on the type of comedy. Of course gross out and reaction go with the 90’s, but if it’s more puns and wit, limited animation of the 1960’s or 2000’s would work.
I really think we tired out everyone with the 2010’s look though. So at least retire that for a few good years. Minimum of 3.
Perhaps something with a lot of edges and sharp angles instead. Always liked that style. Like Invader Zim, Teenage Robot, or or some of the Cartoon Cartoon shows.
Christopher Reed
We'll get a huge new artstyle next decade, but you can't know until someone does it and people copy. It could be anything
We'd love the high-effort animation of something like LTC, but that very likely won't be the style we get.
Ian Taylor
I feel like we're going to get designs that are simplified, but optimized for fluid animation. Exaggerated body proportions, but not cartoonishly so like the noodle-arm Adventure Time/CalArts thing.
I also wouldn't be surprised if more and more animators started embracing the lewd-ification of their characters. Considering how much interest in a show a bunch of horny internet weirdos can keep generating in perpetuity, playing into that seems like a smart move, so I see a lot more focus on busts, butts, bulges and all over THICCness. There's no way r34 is going to stop, so better to just do your best to harness that beast for your benefit instead of trying to act like it doesn't exist.
So, basically, I think minus8 is the future of animation
Gavin Robinson
>minus8 is the future of animation
Charles Jones
user, I doubt lewdness is going to be big.
Ian Moore
I suppose something more angular but still retaining a pretty simple look.
David Price
Let's revive the Hannah Barbera style. It's an option.
Luke Taylor
Not actual lewdness, just a much more lewd-friendly approach to character design.
Nolan Morris
Alexander Perry
HELL FUCKING YEEEAAAAHHHH, THE FUTURE IS WAITING FOR ME MAN
Juan Adams
It'll look like bigger budget newgrounds/youtube/webseries animation.
Example: Mao Mao: Heroes of Pure Heart
You've had a generation of animators who had an incentive to find ways to make content watchable (beyond just making a pilot) on a shoestring budget, so even with corporate being cheaper than it used to be, it's more than new animators are used to working with.
Josiah Gray
I think we're going back to pseudo-anime. On second thought, fuck that. The rise of streaming service cartoons is going to see a lot more of "western animation" being outsourced to Japanese studios, to the point where it becomes the dominate style of the 2020s. In other words, anything not aimed at the youngest demographics is probably going to be Canon Busters or Castlevania.
Angel Gonzalez
Ech, no thanks. They made cartoons for decades after decades and all their shows had one of two artstyles: Scooby Doo, and The Jetsons.
Arguably that was the only two /types/ of shows they made, too, animated sitcoms and shows about teens solving mysteries/crimes.
Jonathan Hughes
French-Korean CGI
Calling it now
Matthew Thomas
Jonny Quest looks like neither
Aaron Thompson
Lincoln Perez
I just want it to look less cheap and have more cute girls.
James Ortiz
Does Korea even count as Yea Forums? Outside of outsourced stuff I mean
Parker Gomez
>I feel like we're going to get designs that are simplified, but optimized for fluid animation. Exaggerated body proportions, but not cartoonishly so like the noodle-arm Adventure Time/CalArts thing.
So Rise of TMNT/Battletoads? I can see that.
Oliver Parker
I think a more angular look with a pastel shading. Kinda like a mix of 50s and 2000s
Logan Diaz
There's been this really garish looking aesthetic emerging where everything is drawn as rough and saturated as possible.
Austin Stewart
Fair point.
Chase Ross
Either villainous artstyle or Gashis or Harry Partridge
Jack Clark
I can see that growing in individual art pieces as a rebellion against the Calarts style, however in actual animation it's just not efficient.
Parker Flores
Agreed, but it does look decent in motion.
Leo Jackson
user, drama about the animation industry being filled with "sex perverts" because of slightly suggestive Amphibia fan art got the Amphibia crew crucified.
Brandon Lewis
This image was made by someone who looked exclusively at memes and never watched a cartoon once
Levi Phillips
soulless millennialcuckery
Joshua Hill
Tyson Hesse is really setting the bar for modern cartoon animation with things like Sonic Mania Adventures but in reality we're probably gonna end up with that faggot Thundercats no effort looking shit.
Gabriel Sanchez
Yeah this reminds me of this artists work too. I honestly like the style and hope it catches on, of course without the heavy saturated colors.
Ayden Edwards
I don't think the animators are going to be out there making network funded smut, user. I just think that instead of the current proliferation of flat chests and waists the same diameter as shoulders, we'll see more things like pic related.
You can't tell me everyone working on Twelve Forever looked at Butt Witch and said "Hm, yes. A name like Butt Witch and she thicc. I'm sure THIS will be the time the internet behaves."
They knew what they were doing, and i'd be surprised if they weren't trying to get some mileage out of it, at least a bit. I don't think there'd be even the moderate amount of Twelve discussion on this board right now with a more conventional villain design from the past 5-10 years.
Julian Baker
not sure but it will include necks and broad fingers
going for easy but distinctive designs which are still expressive and easily animated
Gabriel Robinson
I remember pic related being posted as the possible future trend, basically people who are nostalgic for geometric cartoons and have some french/euro influence
Cooper Price
>muh 80's was for toys
fucking zoomer religious garbage, the 80's extreme prosperity allowed tons and tons of experimental shit to be made and hit the theaters and TV. People where hungry for novelty and animation provided. the 80's was a era of pupettry, stop motion, collages, and weirdass concept made just for the sake of it. filmation and HB aren't the only studios in that planet.
Sebastian Walker
I hope for an art-deco revitalization phase, like PPG, Dexters Lab, Samurai jack, and my life as a teenage robot.
Justin Howard
Outline-less is the style of the future
Angel Murphy
And it can look great in 3d, rather taking advantage of it's flexibility than being a cheap copout
I was really disappointed when the actual new ppg series didn't turn out looking like this
Aaron Jenkins