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This ant is expressive and adorable without deviating even slightly from a real ant’s anatomy and yet every time an animated movie has insects as main characters it looks like this:

I’ve gotten multiple notes along the lines of “even Bug’s Life??”

ESPECIALLY Bug’s Life.

These are NIGHTMARE FLESH MUPPET faces slapped on insect bodies, which would be perfectly fine if that was what they were going for, but this apparent attempt to be “cute” only comes out as a fever dream about chitin-plated troll dolls.

Real, unaltered insects are cute:

And before you say “well, cartoon characters need to be able to make recognizable human facial expressions to be relatable, so they need eyebrows and lips,” I give you exhibit B:

Cartoonists are trained to believe that you have to give something a human face to make it “cute” even though the human mind has no difficulty at all feeling emotions for something with an “alien” or “expressionless” face. Just making an inanimate object move around at all is cute. Wall-E was cute. Caterpie is cute. A sunflower with a little hat on it is cute. There’s such a bizarre disconnect between what humans actually find endearing and the formulas taught in animation.

okay WOW even with glasses my eyes are not great because I thought this picture of BB-8 was just an actual screencap of the Force Awakens. I found it on google images and just had no idea it was fan art so I accidentally used it without crediting this person.

@nyearmstrong you call this a “doodle” and I thought it was a damn movie still

This is going around again so I’m re-reblogging the one with proper art credit.

On a side note though, it genuinely makes me sad how many comments are saying insects are still just “too gross and ugly” to be characters. I don’t get it.

Man this post really speaks to me.

This is pretty much the entire reason I try to go outta my way to use odd animals for my character designs; a mixture between genuine love of those creatures and spite towards conventional designs.

For my life drawing class we had to go to the zoo to do animal studies, so we can later work them into three character designs. I’m certain the vast majority of the designs my classmates make are going to be mammals and maybe a bird here or there. That’s why I’m going to make four designs and two of ‘em are gonna be invertebrate characters. And they’re gonna be the best characters outta the whole class!

But enough about me, please admire these wonderful insects!

ya bitching about fake looks, but fake (dog-like) behaviours is fine.

checks out~

The comic book implies that BB8’s gesture there might actually be him flipping you off.

spiders can be super adorable