Why the name Calarts?

John K came up with the term but he meant something else.

Yeah, he meant Iron Giant.
Iron Giant is Jesus fuckin Christ compared to today's cartoons.

>Is it really because of rcdart?
if taken literally, the term came from John K to talk about the Iron Giant.
But it's association with bad art came from RCDart when their first callout post for trans fetishization became popular, particularly because of comments that blew up on their new style saying stuff like "OP is a student on Calarts btw" or "How do you enter an art college and immediately get worse".
How it leaped into beanface I am not sure.

Alex Hirsch, Daron Nefcy, and Pen Ward were all CalArts grads.

if taken literally it came about from California Art Institute having a nickname.
Then John K used that to talk about Iron Giant.
I'm not even sure if there connection to John K is just due to criticisms of different styles throughout the ages or is it just entirely an accident?

Brad Bird was also a CalArts graduate, as were most of the Pixar brain trust. Bird's mentor Milt Kahl was one of those Disney animators that did teaching there for a while and his work still gets studied by animation students.

>tfw knew someone who was just a rich kid and got a full ride there because "I like art" and couldnt draw for shit

John K first used it in a critical lens but Zig Forums picked it up to refer to cartoons that it didn't like. Before beanface, Adventure Time was accused of having the "Calarts noodle limb style". It's technically referred to three different types of animation: John K's usage regarding Iron Giant, Zig Forums's original usage of Adventure Time-inspired cartoons with an emphasis on "noodle limbs", and Zig Forums's current usage of cartoons with "bean heads" and "maggot mouths".

I fully suspect that whatever new trend emerges in animation in the 2020s will also be referred to as Calarts.

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And then they went on to produce a cartoon while you are stuck teaching at an art school.

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Where did the noodle limb style connotation come from?

Jesus Christ, that right one is incredibly fucking racist.

Might be because it was a shallow reference to rubberhose animation of the 30's and 40's.

I'm not entirely sure but I strongly suspect that it stopped being used because
A: Adventure Time's style stopped being aped after a while
B: People started to point out that noodle limbs had been present in cartoons since the 1920s and really weren't something that the AT style invented

Alright, but what's "Calarts" about it?

Honestly I don't have a clue, I feel like it might have just been taking John K's criticism and reworking it into "style I don't like".

I guess that if you ignore his failures everything he did look like succeses.

Going by
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The calarts criticism is less a criticism and more "people are from calarts" in the early days.
What's weird is that at the bottom Regular Show is made as distinctive from Calarts, which I can see given it's imitators looked like imitators.

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I also find it really funny how people act like Calarts is some recent meme when you can use the archives like this one to see that it started before any of the shows currently known as "Calarts" even aired. Shit's almost a decade old.

Interestingly, /m/ (which has archives dating back to 2010) doesn't bring it up until 2014.

Zig Forums dates calarts face to 2011, but fuck if I know what that looked like

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As a meme it was largely stuck to Zig Forums before other boards started to get their panties in a twist about Western animation, I'm not sure that the "noodle limbs" version was even posted outside of Zig Forums.