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What cartoon has the worst artstyle?

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Response to What cartoon has the worst artstyle? 2023-10-14 06:39:26


At 10/13/23 10:55 PM, SporgyTheMenace wrote:
At 10/10/23 07:07 PM, RedTariq wrote:I'm mainly talking about animated shows (web and TV) but what cartoon do you believe has the worst art and animation style and why?

Craig of the Creek, I hate the character designs because of that annoying calarts style, only this time it's even worse. Like what the hell is up with the tallish guy's ear? Or how the girl next to the tallish guy looks less like a normal young girl and more like a hairy gnome. Craig himself is the only character that looks okay but I'm bothered by his weird gamer dent. And don't get me started on that mutated parrot.

I haven't seen the complete show, only clips of it and it just seems generic and catters to the nerdy weird outcast kids(I was one though), but I hope it's good and the clips I watched were out of context. It's just these character design suck more than the show's lame ass food and recipes.


this maybe controversial but for me calarts artstyle looks fine for me, also craig is kinda cool as a show.


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Response to What cartoon has the worst artstyle? 2023-10-14 06:40:21


At 10/14/23 12:04 AM, NoobClock666 wrote:
At 10/11/23 01:01 PM, switzrr wrote:Big Mouth and it's not even close

It looks even worse if you draw other cartoons in the Big Mouth style.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oaDemJy7YWc

what's that thing that got censored??


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Response to What cartoon has the worst artstyle? 2023-10-14 06:48:34


At 10/14/23 12:23 AM, NoobClock666 wrote:Back Street Girls: Gokudols
All the characters look like 3D sex dolls. AND THERE’S NO FUCKING ANIMATION. It’s just mouth-moving!
Also, the show is shit. 
It’s nothing but a show about dudes forced to be stupid bimbos with no personalities and treated like stupid bimbos. They are not trans women. They are guys forced to be slaves. THAT’S SOMETHING OUT OF A FUCKING PORN COMIC ONLINE!
It’s not even funny or sexy. It’s just retarded.


i want a saberspark video on this anime


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Response to What cartoon has the worst artstyle? 2023-10-14 08:55:10


At 10/14/23 12:23 AM, NoobClock666 wrote:Back Street Girls: Gokudols
All the characters look like 3D sex dolls. AND THERE’S NO FUCKING ANIMATION. It’s just mouth-moving!
Also, the show is shit. 
It’s nothing but a show about dudes forced to be stupid bimbos with no personalities and treated like stupid bimbos. They are not trans women. They are guys forced to be slaves. THAT’S SOMETHING OUT OF A FUCKING PORN COMIC ONLINE!
It’s not even funny or sexy. It’s just retarded.

This looks like a shitty fanfic that someone tried to make into a series only for it to be more shitty.

Response to What cartoon has the worst artstyle? 2023-10-14 09:29:42


At 10/10/23 08:31 PM, shempman wrote:if you don't know what this is, you've been spared. im all for stuff not being anime pretty and being somewhat grotesque but man does it still need something appealing going on...


A human being looked at that and thought it was acceptable.


That's the scariest part about this image.

Response to What cartoon has the worst artstyle? 2023-10-14 09:31:26


At 10/11/23 01:10 PM, GetCrazyWCheeseWhiz wrote:I know South Park is meant to look like shit, but my God does it look like shit.


I think that was beacuse it takes one week to make each episode in order to remain topical.


Correct me if I'm wrong, though

Response to What cartoon has the worst artstyle? 2023-10-14 10:12:30


At 10/14/23 06:39 AM, sylfia11 wrote:
At 10/13/23 10:55 PM, SporgyTheMenace wrote:
At 10/10/23 07:07 PM, RedTariq wrote:I'm mainly talking about animated shows (web and TV) but what cartoon do you believe has the worst art and animation style and why?

Craig of the Creek, I hate the character designs because of that annoying calarts style, only this time it's even worse. Like what the hell is up with the tallish guy's ear? Or how the girl next to the tallish guy looks less like a normal young girl and more like a hairy gnome. Craig himself is the only character that looks okay but I'm bothered by his weird gamer dent. And don't get me started on that mutated parrot.

I haven't seen the complete show, only clips of it and it just seems generic and catters to the nerdy weird outcast kids(I was one though), but I hope it's good and the clips I watched were out of context. It's just these character design suck more than the show's lame ass food and recipes.

this maybe controversial but for me calarts artstyle looks fine for me, also craig is kinda cool as a show.


It's just not my thing, because I like a little sharpness and edge in art. The round soft style is just not my cup of tea.

Response to What cartoon has the worst artstyle? 2023-10-14 13:08:56


At 10/14/23 06:40 AM, sylfia11 wrote:
At 10/14/23 12:04 AM, NoobClock666 wrote:
At 10/11/23 01:01 PM, switzrr wrote:Big Mouth and it's not even close

It looks even worse if you draw other cartoons in the Big Mouth style.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oaDemJy7YWc
what's that thing that got censored??


The mushroom guy from Inside job.


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Response to What cartoon has the worst artstyle? 2023-10-14 13:33:21


At 10/14/23 10:12 AM, SporgyTheMenace wrote:
At 10/14/23 06:39 AM, sylfia11 wrote:
At 10/13/23 10:55 PM, SporgyTheMenace wrote:
At 10/10/23 07:07 PM, RedTariq wrote:I'm mainly talking about animated shows (web and TV) but what cartoon do you believe has the worst art and animation style and why?

Craig of the Creek, I hate the character designs because of that annoying calarts style, only this time it's even worse. Like what the hell is up with the tallish guy's ear? Or how the girl next to the tallish guy looks less like a normal young girl and more like a hairy gnome. Craig himself is the only character that looks okay but I'm bothered by his weird gamer dent. And don't get me started on that mutated parrot.

I haven't seen the complete show, only clips of it and it just seems generic and catters to the nerdy weird outcast kids(I was one though), but I hope it's good and the clips I watched were out of context. It's just these character design suck more than the show's lame ass food and recipes.

this maybe controversial but for me calarts artstyle looks fine for me, also craig is kinda cool as a show.

It's just not my thing, because I like a little sharpness and edge in art. The round soft style is just not my cup of tea.


I agree.


On a related note.


Normally I don't give a damn about the whole cal-arts art trend at this point. There's nothing wrong with the style in of itself, and it's also one of the more overused styles.


And you know, I get it. Some people actually like it and simplicity tends to be the big rule with animation. Hence why Hanna-Barbera were the kings in making their art style relatively in line with what was going on in the 50's all the way into the 70's and early 80's until the game changed.


But there comes a point where you see too much of it and you either hate it or become indifferent to it.

Response to What cartoon has the worst artstyle? 2023-10-14 14:57:16


At 10/14/23 01:08 PM, NoobClock666 wrote:
At 10/14/23 06:40 AM, sylfia11 wrote:
At 10/14/23 12:04 AM, NoobClock666 wrote:
At 10/11/23 01:01 PM, switzrr wrote:Big Mouth and it's not even close

It looks even worse if you draw other cartoons in the Big Mouth style.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oaDemJy7YWc
what's that thing that got censored??

The mushroom guy from Inside job.


oh....


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Response to What cartoon has the worst artstyle? 2023-10-14 14:58:54


At 10/14/23 01:33 PM, DioShiba wrote:
At 10/14/23 10:12 AM, SporgyTheMenace wrote:
At 10/14/23 06:39 AM, sylfia11 wrote:
At 10/13/23 10:55 PM, SporgyTheMenace wrote:
At 10/10/23 07:07 PM, RedTariq wrote:I'm mainly talking about animated shows (web and TV) but what cartoon do you believe has the worst art and animation style and why?

Craig of the Creek, I hate the character designs because of that annoying calarts style, only this time it's even worse. Like what the hell is up with the tallish guy's ear? Or how the girl next to the tallish guy looks less like a normal young girl and more like a hairy gnome. Craig himself is the only character that looks okay but I'm bothered by his weird gamer dent. And don't get me started on that mutated parrot.

I haven't seen the complete show, only clips of it and it just seems generic and catters to the nerdy weird outcast kids(I was one though), but I hope it's good and the clips I watched were out of context. It's just these character design suck more than the show's lame ass food and recipes.

this maybe controversial but for me calarts artstyle looks fine for me, also craig is kinda cool as a show.

It's just not my thing, because I like a little sharpness and edge in art. The round soft style is just not my cup of tea.

I agree.

On a related note.

Normally I don't give a damn about the whole cal-arts art trend at this point. There's nothing wrong with the style in of itself, and it's also one of the more overused styles.

And you know, I get it. Some people actually like it and simplicity tends to be the big rule with animation. Hence why Hanna-Barbera were the kings in making their art style relatively in line with what was going on in the 50's all the way into the 70's and early 80's until the game changed.

But there comes a point where you see too much of it and you either hate it or become indifferent to it.


My main criticism is that it low-keys represents corporate uniformity, as Cal-Art itself wants it's student to be both creative and conform, which apparently results in many artists who have a unique art style before they enter and end developing a rather uniform-like style when they graduate. I don’t know, maybe I'm just pessimistic.

Response to What cartoon has the worst artstyle? 2023-10-14 15:10:52


Big fucking mouth

Response to What cartoon has the worst artstyle? 2023-10-14 15:25:01


At 10/14/23 02:58 PM, SporgyTheMenace wrote:
At 10/14/23 01:33 PM, DioShiba wrote:
At 10/14/23 10:12 AM, SporgyTheMenace wrote:
At 10/14/23 06:39 AM, sylfia11 wrote:
At 10/13/23 10:55 PM, SporgyTheMenace wrote:
At 10/10/23 07:07 PM, RedTariq wrote:I'm mainly talking about animated shows (web and TV) but what cartoon do you believe has the worst art and animation style and why?

Craig of the Creek, I hate the character designs because of that annoying calarts style, only this time it's even worse. Like what the hell is up with the tallish guy's ear? Or how the girl next to the tallish guy looks less like a normal young girl and more like a hairy gnome. Craig himself is the only character that looks okay but I'm bothered by his weird gamer dent. And don't get me started on that mutated parrot.

I haven't seen the complete show, only clips of it and it just seems generic and catters to the nerdy weird outcast kids(I was one though), but I hope it's good and the clips I watched were out of context. It's just these character design suck more than the show's lame ass food and recipes.

this maybe controversial but for me calarts artstyle looks fine for me, also craig is kinda cool as a show.

It's just not my thing, because I like a little sharpness and edge in art. The round soft style is just not my cup of tea.

I agree.

On a related note.

Normally I don't give a damn about the whole cal-arts art trend at this point. There's nothing wrong with the style in of itself, and it's also one of the more overused styles.

And you know, I get it. Some people actually like it and simplicity tends to be the big rule with animation. Hence why Hanna-Barbera were the kings in making their art style relatively in line with what was going on in the 50's all the way into the 70's and early 80's until the game changed.

But there comes a point where you see too much of it and you either hate it or become indifferent to it.

My main criticism is that it low-keys represents corporate uniformity, as Cal-Art itself wants it's student to be both creative and conform, which apparently results in many artists who have a unique art style before they enter and end developing a rather uniform-like style when they graduate. I don’t know, maybe I'm just pessimistic.


Wasn't the whole "Cal-Arts style" thing debunked years ago? I mean, most shows that fit into that stereotype only have a few bean face MCs and the rest of the character designs diverge from there. It's like saying the PPG style is just Blossom, Bubbles and Buttercup. And it's not even like all bean-face shows are written by Cal-Arts graduates.


But I agree with it being corporate conformity. It even shows in the writing, with the protagonists being the same young, plucky and "make happy" archetype(that's probably too vague, but you get the point). Infinity Train was even cancelled for not wanting its 5th season to have a "child entry point".

Response to What cartoon has the worst artstyle? 2023-10-14 16:27:16


At 10/14/23 03:25 PM, UnculturedMutt wrote:
At 10/14/23 02:58 PM, SporgyTheMenace wrote:
At 10/14/23 01:33 PM, DioShiba wrote:
At 10/14/23 10:12 AM, SporgyTheMenace wrote:
At 10/14/23 06:39 AM, sylfia11 wrote:
At 10/13/23 10:55 PM, SporgyTheMenace wrote:
At 10/10/23 07:07 PM, RedTariq wrote:I'm mainly talking about animated shows (web and TV) but what cartoon do you believe has the worst art and animation style and why?

Craig of the Creek, I hate the character designs because of that annoying calarts style, only this time it's even worse. Like what the hell is up with the tallish guy's ear? Or how the girl next to the tallish guy looks less like a normal young girl and more like a hairy gnome. Craig himself is the only character that looks okay but I'm bothered by his weird gamer dent. And don't get me started on that mutated parrot.

I haven't seen the complete show, only clips of it and it just seems generic and catters to the nerdy weird outcast kids(I was one though), but I hope it's good and the clips I watched were out of context. It's just these character design suck more than the show's lame ass food and recipes.

this maybe controversial but for me calarts artstyle looks fine for me, also craig is kinda cool as a show.

It's just not my thing, because I like a little sharpness and edge in art. The round soft style is just not my cup of tea.

I agree.

On a related note.

Normally I don't give a damn about the whole cal-arts art trend at this point. There's nothing wrong with the style in of itself, and it's also one of the more overused styles.

And you know, I get it. Some people actually like it and simplicity tends to be the big rule with animation. Hence why Hanna-Barbera were the kings in making their art style relatively in line with what was going on in the 50's all the way into the 70's and early 80's until the game changed.

But there comes a point where you see too much of it and you either hate it or become indifferent to it.

My main criticism is that it low-keys represents corporate uniformity, as Cal-Art itself wants it's student to be both creative and conform, which apparently results in many artists who have a unique art style before they enter and end developing a rather uniform-like style when they graduate. I don’t know, maybe I'm just pessimistic.

Wasn't the whole "Cal-Arts style" thing debunked years ago? I mean, most shows that fit into that stereotype only have a few bean face MCs and the rest of the character designs diverge from there. It's like saying the PPG style is just Blossom, Bubbles and Buttercup. And it's not even like all bean-face shows are written by Cal-Arts graduates.

But I agree with it being corporate conformity. It even shows in the writing, with the protagonists being the same young, plucky and "make happy" archetype(that's probably too vague, but you get the point). Infinity Train was even cancelled for not wanting its 5th season to have a "child entry point".


What I mean by the Cal-Arts style is not the bean face specifically just the weird roundish art style you know.

Response to What cartoon has the worst artstyle? 2023-10-14 16:44:00


Some people mentioned it before me, but my pick has to be The Problem Solverz. I think a lot of the shows mentioned before aren't really "the worst artstyle" but styles that people find really ugly on a subjective level. I'm a dude who loves shows with a weird artstyle so a lot of the time I end up being fine with a style that a bunch of people find super ugly. The issue with Problem Solverz is the super saturated colors makes knowing where I'm supposed to be looking super difficult. I feel my eyes constantly darting around the screen, and I feel like I sometimes miss important characters or gags because of all the visual noise. This show is not only ugly, but it's also impractical to watch which makes it the worst style in my book.


I'm a fuckin Grimbo Jimbo

Response to What cartoon has the worst artstyle? 2023-10-14 17:43:53


At 10/11/23 01:01 PM, switzrr wrote:Big Mouth and it's not even close

Second this. Maybe the show is good but it looks gross.

Response to What cartoon has the worst artstyle? 2023-10-14 18:05:22


At 10/14/23 04:27 PM, SporgyTheMenace wrote:
At 10/14/23 03:25 PM, UnculturedMutt wrote:
At 10/14/23 02:58 PM, SporgyTheMenace wrote:
At 10/14/23 01:33 PM, DioShiba wrote:
At 10/14/23 10:12 AM, SporgyTheMenace wrote:
At 10/14/23 06:39 AM, sylfia11 wrote:
At 10/13/23 10:55 PM, SporgyTheMenace wrote:
At 10/10/23 07:07 PM, RedTariq wrote:I'm mainly talking about animated shows (web and TV) but what cartoon do you believe has the worst art and animation style and why?

Craig of the Creek, I hate the character designs because of that annoying calarts style, only this time it's even worse. Like what the hell is up with the tallish guy's ear? Or how the girl next to the tallish guy looks less like a normal young girl and more like a hairy gnome. Craig himself is the only character that looks okay but I'm bothered by his weird gamer dent. And don't get me started on that mutated parrot.

I haven't seen the complete show, only clips of it and it just seems generic and catters to the nerdy weird outcast kids(I was one though), but I hope it's good and the clips I watched were out of context. It's just these character design suck more than the show's lame ass food and recipes.

this maybe controversial but for me calarts artstyle looks fine for me, also craig is kinda cool as a show.

It's just not my thing, because I like a little sharpness and edge in art. The round soft style is just not my cup of tea.

I agree.

On a related note.

Normally I don't give a damn about the whole cal-arts art trend at this point. There's nothing wrong with the style in of itself, and it's also one of the more overused styles.

And you know, I get it. Some people actually like it and simplicity tends to be the big rule with animation. Hence why Hanna-Barbera were the kings in making their art style relatively in line with what was going on in the 50's all the way into the 70's and early 80's until the game changed.

But there comes a point where you see too much of it and you either hate it or become indifferent to it.

My main criticism is that it low-keys represents corporate uniformity, as Cal-Art itself wants it's student to be both creative and conform, which apparently results in many artists who have a unique art style before they enter and end developing a rather uniform-like style when they graduate. I don’t know, maybe I'm just pessimistic.

Wasn't the whole "Cal-Arts style" thing debunked years ago? I mean, most shows that fit into that stereotype only have a few bean face MCs and the rest of the character designs diverge from there. It's like saying the PPG style is just Blossom, Bubbles and Buttercup. And it's not even like all bean-face shows are written by Cal-Arts graduates.

But I agree with it being corporate conformity. It even shows in the writing, with the protagonists being the same young, plucky and "make happy" archetype(that's probably too vague, but you get the point). Infinity Train was even cancelled for not wanting its 5th season to have a "child entry point".

What I mean by the Cal-Arts style is not the bean face specifically just the weird roundish art style you know.


The "Cal-Arts style" is just a term coined by John K to describe any animations he didn't like, it somehow got to the point of "bean mouth round body bad" which is a separate issue


Response to What cartoon has the worst artstyle? 2023-10-14 22:36:13


breadwinners is ugly as hell.


humor is just shit jokes (literally), art style makes me want to get bleach, and the voices of almost every character sounds like a posh asshole or annoying douchebag.


need I say more?


also, it looks much worse in motion, so keep that in mind.


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Response to What cartoon has the worst artstyle? 2023-10-15 01:08:17


Interesting question when put on this site. I sometimes wonder how folks put up with Frontpage slopimation.

There's a lot of conjecture about why ugliness is chosen for promotion. One would typically think studios are starved for talent, wherein the best work could be reproduced. It's like ugly is the lowest common denominator for the team of animators. Ugly is easy to remake. Maybe ugly is fast and easy, to cover for a better project's failures in scheduled releases.


What if these publishers want to starve the masses for the good shows? That's against the company's viewer-and-monetary interest, unless they're a captured institution by some other interest. Maybe there's an executive decision to make some shows like shit so others appear better. Content curation has been noted on youtube, for example, where most everyone agrees the popular stuff is obnoxious, yet it stays popular.


Maybe these shows are indicative that audiences don't know what they want, or that creators misinterpret what audiences want. What if the proliferation of ugly in shows like Problem Solverz is indicative of deliberate, closely measured quantities of what audiences are capable of tolerating? Maybe the studios want to know just how sloppy the quality can get before audiences leave? Adult Swim doesn't care much with their limited night-time viewership, and their quality is shit as demonstrated by a show like squidbillies. Maybe adults are more willing to tolerate ugliness for the expectation that the show is a comedy. Maybe these cartoons are looking to increase the audience's tolerances for shit, so producers can be more lazy yet still get the same viewership for their ad-twats. What if advertisements were more pretty than the shows?

Response to What cartoon has the worst artstyle? 2023-10-15 01:30:39


At 10/13/23 05:31 PM, thepixelizer wrote:
This show’s art style was so bad it non figuratively hurt your eyes, every single thing on the screen was neon highlighter level saturated.


Jesus Christ please dont remind me

Response to What cartoon has the worst artstyle? 2023-10-15 06:59:39


At 10/14/23 09:51 PM, SnakeBeast95 wrote:
At 10/11/23 07:04 PM, kmau wrote:Some visually competent shows become much worse if you start to compare the final product to the pitched concept art.
The concept art should be the actual design of the animation itself. I chalk this up to laziness!


Things like this never happen due to laziness. There's an unwillingness to invest more money into such shows so they had to distill it down into a style that was best suited to what their current animation infrastructure could handle on a budget.


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Response to What cartoon has the worst artstyle? 2023-10-15 11:01:17


Worst Artstyle? Problem Solverz. Secret Mountain Fort Awesome might be ugly as sin but they clearly took inspiration from old stoner comics from the 60s & 70s. Hell the nose guy looks like one of the Freak Brothers. But Problem Solverz on the other hand looks like the creation of someone who thinks stoner comedy is lolrandom & visual diarrhea. I was gonna joke and say that Problem Solverz was probably an Animation Domination HD reject, but I looked up the show's creator and it turned out that he actually worked on a few ADHD cartoons so I'm probably not far off.


Worst animation style? The way those cheap Canadian govt mandated YTV shows are animated. It might not be literal Flash/ToonBoom puppet rigging, but the way objects will ease and bounce when they move, it all just looks tweened. For what it's worth it has to be done for time & budget reasons, but the point still stands that it looks rough. The worst is when you can still notice it in a good show like Archer or Cuphead. It's like when a movie from this year has CG that looks like something out of a PS2 cutscene.


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Response to What cartoon has the worst artstyle? 2023-10-15 11:12:09


Nickelodeon chose this over adventure time. Nothing else needs to be said.iu_1097789_7306275.jpg

Response to What cartoon has the worst artstyle? 2023-10-15 13:59:01


At 10/15/23 11:12 AM, Magnedeus wrote:Nickelodeon chose this over adventure time. Nothing else needs to be said.


it was extremely bad, but at least the person who storyboarded later adventure time episodes and made Edd Ed and Eddy Shota-Con didn't animate it.


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Response to What cartoon has the worst artstyle? 2023-10-15 17:32:17


Steven universe

Response to What cartoon has the worst artstyle? 2023-10-15 17:33:07


I wish new grounds had a tomato emoji so I could digitally throw tomatoes at you

Response to What cartoon has the worst artstyle? 2023-10-15 18:09:34


This Australian kids show called The Flamin’ Thongs. Watched it a bit when I was younger, the animation is terrible. It was also just really boring.

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There’s also Dirt Girl World, that one looks especially hideous.

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I see this face in my nightmares.



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Response to What cartoon has the worst artstyle? 2023-10-15 18:43:00


At 10/15/23 05:33 PM, stupidvampire wrote:I wish new grounds had a tomato emoji so I could digitally throw tomatoes at you


At the OP? What did he do?


Response to What cartoon has the worst artstyle? 2023-10-15 18:54:54


At 10/15/23 06:43 PM, Magnedeus wrote:
At 10/15/23 05:33 PM, stupidvampire wrote:I wish new grounds had a tomato emoji so I could digitally throw tomatoes at you

At the OP? What did he do?


I just realized I accidentally deleted the response from the person it was aimed at

Response to What cartoon has the worst artstyle? 2023-10-15 19:10:25


Code Lyoko, my least favorite show ever created.


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