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Why have cartoons got so spikey?

TheCatWoman

One of the things I've noticed over the last decade or so is how angular and spikey cartoon characters have become, why do people have to have noses that look like the prow of a yatch? Chins that could be used as pickaxes and big eyes with spikey eyelashes? I wouldn't want cartoons to be all soft and rounded like early Disney, but just more normal looking. I find them really freaky to look at and it puts me off.

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  • TheCatWoman said:
    One of the things I've noticed over the last decade or so is how angular and spikey cartoon characters have become,

    This goes back way before that - back in the 90s I recall the likes of Dexters Laboratory having this stye - it was just the style of the time.

    TheCatWoman said:
    I find them really freaky to look at and it puts me off.

    I recall my grandparents incredulity at the Scooby Doo cartoons I used to watch as a child - they were all too wacky and unlike the cartoons of their childhood. I guess it is a style you grow up associating with cartoon entertainment and as you age it gets harder to appreciate the style of the new generations.

    As my great nephew said to me - "you just got old!".

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  • TheCatWoman said:
    One of the things I've noticed over the last decade or so is how angular and spikey cartoon characters have become,

    This goes back way before that - back in the 90s I recall the likes of Dexters Laboratory having this stye - it was just the style of the time.

    TheCatWoman said:
    I find them really freaky to look at and it puts me off.

    I recall my grandparents incredulity at the Scooby Doo cartoons I used to watch as a child - they were all too wacky and unlike the cartoons of their childhood. I guess it is a style you grow up associating with cartoon entertainment and as you age it gets harder to appreciate the style of the new generations.

    As my great nephew said to me - "you just got old!".

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    Iain said:
    This goes back way before that - back in the 90s I recall the likes of Dexters Laboratory having this stye - it was just the style of the time.

    The 90s was the time when anime was beginning to take off. Western studios were noticing and were getting more and more inspired by the snappy, dynamic flow of the Japanese animation style, and so we got a lot of cartoons like Dexter's Lab, Powerpuff Girls etc.

    Iain said:

    I recall my grandparents incredulity at the Scooby Doo cartoons I used to watch as a child - they were all too wacky and unlike the cartoons of their childhood. I guess it is a style you grow up associating with cartoon entertainment and as you age it gets harder to appreciate the style of the new generations.

    As my great nephew said to me - "you just got old!".

    Funnily, I feel the same way about newer cartoons like Hazbin Hotel and The Amazing Digital Circus (the latter I actually really like, by the way! It's incredibly well written and animated!). I mean, the character designs look like a total mess to me! Everything looks overconvoluted, with a weird hyperfixation on asymmetry