murdarioxstomp:

charlesoberonn:

Somebody: All Anime characters have the same face!

American Cartoons: 

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(Gif by @halsteadart)

and yet the end products here are all unmistakably distinct from one another and all rendered in a different style! if anything to me this gif just shows how much you can get out of so little.

shocking: cartoon characters are traditionally built from simple shapes for appeal and ease of animation but this tried-and-true method of character design is really quite versatile!

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all of these characters use that same basic head shape as seen in the gif. it’s been in use since the beginning of animation, just with 3-dimensional logic projected onto it in different ways and with different cranium-to-snoot ratios. 

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    I would like to emphasize to the younger fans that the stuff ported to America is not necessarily the “good” anime, it...
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