Wasnt this a "Cal arts" style back then?

OP is right retards, Dexter's Lab has the same artstyle as shows like 2 Stupid Dogs and Mina and the Count

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Look at all these Dexter artstyles, it's insane how they look similiar.

No, u dumb because it's unique compared to the other cartoons.

Dexter was, but what about everything that came after it?

Name 1 cartoon that has Dexter's art style (hard mode: no MLAATR pilot).

Fairly Oddparents season 0

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Nah, thick line animation was frowned upon in some circles, but not to the level of the purported 'Calarts style.

It was.

Powerpuff Girls.

The F Tales, and many other "Oh Yeah! Cartoons"

Dexter's Lab didn't look like Cow and Chicken, Which didn't look like Johnny Bravo, Which didn't look like Mike, Lu, and Og, which didn't look like Power Puff Girls.

But We Bare Bares looks like Craig of the Creek, which looks like Steven Universe, which look like Star Vs, which looks like Gravity Falls Which looks like OK KO.

I honestly believe you could have taken characters from the background of most shows running today and swap them between shows without anyone noticing while you couldn't do that with older shows.

Okay okay but these are not as obvious as Cal-arts. And in some places, Cal-art looks extremely shitty. And when more cartoons use the same art style it doesn't mean it's Cal-arts tier.

>not every sandwich made in hamburg is a burger
only one way to find out. we have to take a trip to hamburg.

>We Bare Bares looks like Craig of the Creek
This is valid
>Craig of the Creek, which looks like Steven Universe
No
>Steven Universe, which look like Star Vs
Hell no
>Star Vs, which looks like Gravity Falls
Valid but weak
>Gravity Falls Which looks like OK KO.
None of the above looks like OK KO

Craig of the Creek and Steven Universe literally gave the same artstyle

user, they are all Cal-Arts because they came from Cal-Arts. Just because it looks good, it doesn't mean it's not Cal-Arts.

>Powerpuff Girls
>Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy
>Time Squad
>Robot Boy
>Samurai Jack
Not all of them look exactly the same, but they all still have that flat stylised artstyle

No they're not calarts because that's not what people are using "calarts style" for. The term took off really hard after the Thundercats Roar trailer, and it refers to all these protagonists with bean shaped faces, sausage shaped mouths and more ofthen than not noodle arms. It's specially egregious when compared to some of the pilots (or secondary characters of those same shows, where sometimes styles will clash really hard). It refers to them as lazy, perpetually round and lacking imagination or identity.
That's what the term is used form, it's not used to refer to ALL animation from ALL Cal-Arts students.
And what's fucking worse, is tha you can track from Flapjack many of these uninspired artists. You can do the same with 2 Stupid Dogs for many of those order cartoons, and you'll see how when they got to direct their own stuf the styles are much different and taking risks.

how was Dexters "calarts" style? I can see more done with the shapes of their heads and body in the animation, than with rectangle body, bean head, bean mouth, noodle arms, elephant feet, and round eyes seen in modern shows.

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>same artstyle as shows like 2 Stupid Dogs and Mina and the Count
>F Tales, and many other "Oh Yeah! Cartoons"
Because Genndy Tartakovsky made all those designs, you fucking idiot.

As for the rest (and even the stuff by Tartakovsky) they were all an intentional throwback to Hannah-Barbera that involved almost the same people who all worked for Cartoon Network which used Hannah-Barbera for their original animations before funding CN Studios.

The term has been common since Autism Time started spawning other shows, you worthless neophyte.

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Am I the only one who read John K's blog back in the day?

CalArts style refers to whatever is the dominant animation style in the industry that is the result of artists learning from each other in a game of phone that waters down the style with each passing "era" of animation.

This is a direct reference to Disney artists who were so submerged in the Disney style, they were unable to get out of it. And then they passed on knowledge to younger artists but it was all on how to draw in a Disney aesthetic. It resulted in a lot of generic designs and artists who understood how to CONSTRUCT things, but not how to make them appealing looking. As much as people love Iron Giant, a lot of the human designs are very bland and there's no denying it. It can still have a great script but boring designs.

Since 2D Disney films have pretty much died, CalArts is now defined by TV art style. This is often dictated by uniform lines, bean head, bean mouth, even limbs, static posing, and a lack of curves-against-straights to create appealing shapes. This is all in service to make Korean studios able to animate shows more efficiently since it's a handful of studios that have a monopoly on outsourcing. It's much easier for an animator to bounce from Craig of the Creek to We Bare Bears.

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>Wasnt this a "Cal arts" style back then?
Yes
In fact, the term was first used to describe this style

>no
>just because it came out of calarts doesnt make it the 'calarts style'
except that is EXACTLY what makes it 'calarts style'

>CalArts style refers to whatever is the dominant animation style in the industry that is the result of artists learning from each other in a game of phone that waters down the style with each passing "era" of animation.

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>Green text with no rebuttal

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>Am I the only one who read John K's blog back in the day?
you have to go back

that's how you know he's gay