Define "CalArts style"

Define "CalArts style"

Does it really exist or is it just a meme?

It exists to the extent that "KyoAni style" does. Which is to say, there is aesthetic informed by a consistent institutional influence which can be identified by a certain design elements across a number of different creations; but it is evolves over time, rather than remaining static as people think.

Hard to say if it's really 100% rooted in Calarts. And anyhow, when people say it now they generally aren't describing what John K was when he coined the term.

But whatever the case is: flat characters (easy to draw), simple features (easy to draw), limited animation (see above), large eyes (to promote likability), baby/pear-shaped head (babies are likable, therefore in animation, baby-looking characters = likable), and mouth that is a bean with lines in it.

I don't know if this is actually "calarts" or if it's just what television-testers end up finding is the most likable. Consider some of the concept art for Gravity Falls: tends to look a lot more diverse than the final product. But they end up going with the cal-arts style because I think that's what tests well.

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Many of the most beloved animators on Sup Forums are from CalArts

Its 100% a meme.

Meme.

Look at this Most of the cartoons acused of being "Calarts style" are made by people who never went there - like SU - Gumball for example, is not even fucking american, while the crew of NUppg are not Calarts students, but mostly nobodies that never worked on animation before.

If you keep in contact oor visit the blogs of people who are studing in Calarts right now, you will see plenty of different art styles. If you look at shows being pitched to the networks, you will also see a different range of art styles by Calarts students and people from other schools.

People confuse the network wanting to make their shows uniform and cheap, with a school suddenly changing people's art style going there. Forggeting that it isn't the school who greenlight a show, or fund it. The main issue is that the studios are trying to be as cheap as possible lately, and they push for shows with similar styles to cut corners with animators and because "that one show is popular and look like X, we need more shows that LOOK LIKE X" - no different when every show was draw on ArtDeco style trying to emulate Genndy and Craig.

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>Clarence breaks the pattern with individual teeth
Every time.

>Its 100% a meme.
>Meme.
Nice try.

I would say CalArts style had some sort of existence for a little bit because for a while, a lot of new shows were created by people who worked on shows made by people who went to CalArts and went to CalArts themselves. So it was more about the fact that going to CalArts seemingly secured you a place in a popular cartoon's writing room more so than the style.
But yeah, it's mostly just a meme
nobody drags The Powerpuff Girls, Fairly Oddparents, or even MLP into the "cal arts style" meme, even though the people who made those shows are industry titans who went to CalArts

And let's face it, people from CalArts are all over the animation industry. There are tons of CalArts majors at studios like Pixar, but they would have essentially nothing to do with how anything looks other than the specific parts of movies they animated look

Chris Sanders, one of my favorite persons in the industry, graduated from CalArts and yet none of his stuff is ever dragged into the meme

... why does IGN censor the word 'tits'?

It's better to censor it ahead of time so you don't have to deal with angry bullshitters who care about bad words their children might read

I think people take it a bit to literally. "CalArts Style" is literally just whatever lazy trend there is on TV. About five years ago Calarts Style used to refer to the Disney-Wannabe aesthetic. If you asked Sup Forums back in 2010 there used to be discussions about it and instead of pointing to what was currently airing it was mostly about people's personal work or school portfolio's and how no matter what they tried, they invariably had the same weaknesses in their styles.

Nowadays it's meant to represent the noodle limbed grinning potato aesthetic mainly because the term is convenient. Quintel and Ward went to CalArts and got their shit around the same time so what came after morphed into being the new CalArts style.

People usually differentiate because outliers always get the respect. When Glen Keane and Tim Burton were both in school together and taking classes they both graduated into the same position at Disney as junior animators. But while Glen was a good boy and colored inside the lines Tim did weird shit and that was what made him an industry titan on his level. Keane is one of the most popular people in the industry but he's almost completely unknown outside of it. Craig McCracken and the rest can probably be considered in the same fashion in that they didn't color in between the lines but that probably contributed to their getting shows.

The CalArts style is less about looking a certain way and just going with the flow and doing what's the most socially acceptable thing to do. It's basically a grown up version of kids who grew up doing shitty triangle headed anime OC's then transitioned to tomato nosed bean heads when that style got popular. They don't look similar but the intent never really changes.

Nice argument amigo.

Calarts might not be all that people like to brag about, but isnt thhe reason for why so much things suck nowadays, I would argue that studios letting creators like Sugar and Penn contract people with barely any experience in the area, and that never went to an animation school, as a worse pratice.

>Sugar and Penn
THIS!

just because it makes you angry doesn't make it a "meme". If you are an adult, you are expected to know words definition, it's not optional, or linked to emotions.

One day you'll learn. One day.

Is john promoting anime there? Looks like he'd love anime there for all elitist he is.

I already know you are ignorant and angry, that's how you built your whole life.

When people say "calarts style" they usually mean "sugarstyle" because it's her garbage that has become the norm for most of the total shit being made now.

Always remember, a face is nothing but two black dots about three football fields apart, with a bean centered between them.
Yeah, that's it! Now you've got Sugarstyle!

It began with AT, Cartoon Network started to allow the creators of the shows to make their working crew with ANYONE that they wanted - They got to choose who would work on the storyboards, the music and as VAs freely.


The idea was to give more power and freedom to the people behind the show, and make things more flexible, this was the transition from shows fucused more on script to shows focused more on the storyboard.

This IS the reason that we got plenty of good stuff on AT, RS and SU. On the other side, it also caused said creators to contract people with almost no experience on the area, just because they liked their drawings on tumblr, and plenty of times these people were show to be subpar or difficult to work with.

It is still not as much of a bad decision as the NUppg idea, that was suppused to be entirely made by people who never worked on the industry before, to be "fresh". Most people working there never went to Calarts or any other animation school, and the few that have experiece - like the people that made 12 Forever - have to basically teach and look after everyone.

It actually is just a test ground for cheaper animation, focused mostly on marketing, and a training ground for cheaper animators for the other shows that "just happen to have" the same art style.

When a team got total creative freedom

Back in the day;
"Let's hurry and get a ton of talented professionals in on our project. With our talent, vision and experience, we'll make great cartoons that'll be remembered as classics!"

Now:
"Let's hurry and hire everyone we known on tumblr based on their non-binary genders, race and political views. Doesn't matter if they've never drawn anything except Adventure Time fanart. We'll make wacky cartoons to push our personal agendas!

>Always remember, a face is nothing but two black dots about three football fields apart, with a bean centered between them.
>Yeah, that's it! Now you've got Sugarstyle!

Dont be retarded, this is Penn style, not Sugar.

>When people say "calarts style" they usually mean "sugarstyle" because it's her garbage that has become the norm for most of the total shit being made now.

If you check her previous works, like Pug Davis, the SU pilot or even the fanart that she posts, you will see that her style doesnt actually fit the show. It is said that it was Ian that did the "adaptations" from Sugar style to the tv style, looking at his previous work, I actually believe that, they are closer to the current CN style than Sugar was.

COMING SOON

It is a meme. It's a highly contagious meme spreading across the animation industry.

>Penn style, not Sugar.
You're attempting to say that like there's any significant difference.
I saw her own drawings of Bee and Puppycat.
Same exact shit.

>We'll make wacky cartoons to push our personal agendas!

"Pushing" personal agendas has existed in art as long as art has fucking existed.

Funny how it's only the generation born after 2000 who thinks that, and are always the first to shout it like it's true.

This sure as hell doesn't look like Penn's work.

>Let's hurry and get a ton of talented professionals in on our project. With our talent, vision and experience, we'll make great cartoons that'll be remembered as classics!"


Don't fool yourself. You are sounding like a nolstalgic and desiluded oldman.

Which is probably the intention.

>Funny how it's only the generation born after 2000 who thinks that, and are always the first to shout it like it's true.

What? Are you actually trying to argue that people didn't put their personal agendas and opinions into their art before 2000?

Am I being rused?

There is a difference between Penn art style, Natasha art style and Sugar art style.

Clever.

That they all look like complete fucking trash is a similarity, not a "difference" user.

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If you don't even know the difference between Natasha Allegri and Rebecca Sugar, you have absolutely no reason to even be discussing this.
You're just too ignorant on the matter.

It does exist, ironically as most people already pointed out, what people call the calarts style is not very used among people that went to calarts but instead is popular with other artists.
But it does exist, it was just misnamed.