>be me
>my style involves drawing 4 fingers
>submits character design for a project
>boss tells me he likes my cartoonish style but wants 5 fingers
Why are modern cartoons like this? Do they suddenly hate 4 fingers now?
Be me
Landon Green
Jordan Davis
Thing that never happened for $200
John Kelly
I just realized she has five fingers on each hand
Nicholas Ward
Benjamin Butler
Some styles look weird with it, though, so maybe yours does. Learn to take criticism.
Cameron Collins
This got me to ask him why he asked for 5 fingers and he said that humans have 5 fingers. What’s stylization?
Nicholas Cook
It's because we can afford to animate an additional finger now.
William Gray
4 fingered hands have largely fallen out of favor as a design element due to the heavy anime influence in many cartoonists and illustrators’ styles.
And Japanese cartoon characters never have 4 fingers due to looking too much like yubitsume; the traditional Yakuza practice of chopping off the pinky finger as punishment.
Elijah Ward
>be me
no thanks you gigantic homo tool
Ryan Young
You have no excuses to draw 4 fingers only these days.
Cameron Gray
the reason used to be "4 is bad luck" but now theres a yakuza angle too?
Bullshit, the first Astro Boy had 4 on each hand in the animation but 5 anywhere else. 5 fingers could have been standard for a long time had nobody figured out 4 fingers was easier to animate.
Dominic Gray
Cartoons rarely use four fingers anymore. Quit using MUH STYLE as a crutch and draw five fingers you fucking faggot.
Kevin Taylor
I can draw five fingers fine. I just like to draw four better
Jordan King
Why stop there? Why not "stylize" your characters to have one eyeball and no legs, too.
Jose Clark
It says here that you prefer four fingers to five. Care to explain yourself?
Ayden Wilson
People used to draw four fingers because animation was in its infancy and it saved time while still conveying the proper amount of information for a hand shape. Three fingers is too few, so four was the perfect sweet spot for how many digits you could remove before it looks "weird". When a cartoon actually got a budget, they would use five fingers, but still keep four fingers for comic relief characters because people got used to the image of a goofy four-fingered cartoon character.
The 90's was a resurgence of artists drawing inspiration from animation classics, so they all drew four fingers because that's what they were learning from. They all figured funny cartoon characters had four fingers, like Fred Flintstone and Mickey Mouse. Modern-day cartoons are not taking inspiration from Preston Blair, Tex Avery, Chuck Jones, etc. So they draw five fingers.
Anthony Morris
Use this as an excuse to fist your boss, he's literally asking for it.
Elijah Green
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Jose James
>Modern-day cartoons are not taking inspiration from Preston Blair, Tex Avery, Chuck Jones, etc
Why not? Modern cartoonists who get their inspiration from calarts should kill themselves in minecraft.
Hudson Lee
All you typed was words, not a coherent sentence.
Andrew Nguyen
old cartoons good
new cartoons bad
Owen Sanchez
UNGA BUNGA
TASTE THE PAIN
Adam Ross
vt.co/news/world/bizarre-reason-japanese-cartoon-characters-always-five-fingers
>In fact, the baruakumin thought cultural images of four fingers were so offensive, that pressure groups worked on their behalf.
>The pressure groups then demanded money from studios, or else they would not allow the game would not be sold in Japan
Blame Japan
Jason Wright
gatorade has electrolytes
it's what your body craves
Jayden Brown
>realistically drawn four fingered hand
Liam Taylor
I know some artists who would go to that degree
Mason Bennett
Then he's probably looking for something more grounded in reality.
Austin Rogers
Is your boss an artist? Post some of your art so we can judge it. Drawing humans with fewer than 5 fingers per hand is as much of a stylistic choice as drawing humans with fewer than 32 teeth. It could just be that your missing fingers are conspicuous.
Nathaniel Fisher
Contract won't allow me, but makes most sense
Landon Butler
>a piece of paper is going to force you from sharing your art with the world
Lmao
Alexander Rogers
>Contract won't allow me
I'm not asking you to post content under an NDA, just something of your own art. No contract is gonna stop you from sharing art you make in your own time, or stuff from before it.