What exactly is this and why do people hate it so much?

What exactly is this and why do people hate it so much?

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It started ironicaly, but s with all memes, stupid people started taking it seriously.

Like a fucking school is responsable for the art style that exist only due to budget reasons.

>It started ironicaly, but s with all memes, stupid people started taking it seriously.

This. This is why you should never take anything people say on Sup Forums seriously.

And the fact that certain shows that use the artstyle aren't even made by CalArts alumni.

Reminder that Uncle Grandpa was made by a CalArts student.
Reminder that SU and Gumball weren't.

Fucking this, and the worst are made by people that never went to Calarts.

It's Sup Forums's personal Boogeyman.

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But it's also interesting to add the fact that a lot of people don't like Cal Arts because basically it's the only school in the world to go to if you want to get into the animation industry, and very few people get accepted into it. Meaning most people can kiss their chances goodbye

The CalArts style. Everyone knows this since 90% of American cartoons use it.

>slanted oval eyes
>round head
>C-shaped ears

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And thin, pencil neck.

What exactly happens at CalArts? Has anybody here ever been? I'm curious to know what they are taught.

I don't want to buy into the ebin meems, but it always reminds me of the page from Animation Survival Kit where the students know absolutely nothing. Since CalArts was co-founded by Disney they must know a decent amount, right?

You can just search the tumblr of people that study there.

To be honest, Elmer and Popeye are the only characters on that chart that look vaguely CalArts-like. The others don't have the eyes or ears.

This user is right.

This girl here is a first year student:
pocketpicasso.tumblr.com/

I quite liked this short, even if it was obviously made with time constraints.

vimeo.com/184965728?from=outro-embed

>why do people hate it so much?
Because people are fucking retarded and don't realize that the "calarts" style is taught because it's very popular among executives and studios because of how easy it is on the budget, not the other way around.

>but it always reminds me of the page from Animation Survival Kit where the students know absolutely nothing
But the same thing that page said about art school applies to CalArts, it's not really the schools fault, it's the students who aren't actually interested in learning that are the problem.

It's jealousy

People pay thousands to go to art school and hope to get somewhere in life but almost never do.

Meanwhile Calarts students fall ass backwards into success, most often without ever graduating.

Didn't John K denounce CalArts as a blight on animation?

Is there anything left he has not bitched about?

He is a faggot tho.

Nigga wut? The vast majority of CalArts students end up serving burgers like pretty much every other art school graduate.

Besides, pretty much only like 0.1% of Sup Forums has actually gone to an art school or even has any interest in being an animator.

John K is a blight on animation.

CalArt's encourages some low effort art styles and its become a massive plague on the animation industry. Steven Universe, Adventure time, Gravity falls, etc. All have really sub-par artstyles. As someone who just graduated from an animation uni (aka the only one in australia) its annoying and down right disgusting seeing CalArt's kids always get handed success on a platter. Meanwhile the rest of us are busting our nutts trying to get a job stateside so we can make a living.

Someone will probably argue about gumball but i'd say in gumball its honestly actually fitting considering the show is one giant satire about tropes and cliche's in the industry.

You are kind of stupid considering that your complain was refuted on this thread.

SU isnt even Calarts, and it isnt EVEN Rebecca Sugar art style. This is: youtube.com/watch?v=Tgue81LVZ4E

The CalArts style is sort of an industry standard and even if you come up with your own idiosyncratic art style, the animators and studio execs will do their best to CalArt-ify it.

Take the Simpsons. This is Matt Groening's art style after being given the CalArts treatment. Look at Life In Hell for what his style looks like by itself.

When a student who constantly gets told by all his friends and parents that he doesn't need to put in any effort gets shit grades do you blame the teacher?

I think he hates art schools in general, he himself dropped out of Sheridan. Calarts probably got the heat because it's the most well known school and probably has more alumni in the American industry than any other school

I think it would be more proper to call it the LA Style and I believe it was John K who dubbed it the "CalArts" style.

Actually it's not true at all that CalArts imposes a specific style on its students. Take Tim Burton and Brad Bird, both CalArts grads with radically different art styles.

It's more accurate to speak of the style that studio execs impose on animators.

Thing is, style does not matter when looking for a job in the entertainment industry. It is all about who you know, what connection you make, and how friends can get you into positions regardless of skill.

And the school that is 5 minutes down the road from every major film studio is going to have those connections.

SCAD is way over in Georgia where there is nothing. Ringling is in Florida and can get some Disney attention on occasion but not like Calarts. SVU and RID are just not in the same area and have an incredibly hard time competing.

The school with the 92% placement rate in animation? Are you fucking high?

I think this is pretty accurate. Judging by student film projects and sample drawings made by a variety of CalArts grads from Butch Hartman to Seth MacFarlane to Brad Bird, a lot of these guys have a very wide range of art styles. It seems fairly obvious to me that animation studios default to the slanted oval/C-shaped ears look for consistency reasons and because it's easier for animators to draw rather than having to learn 250 different art styles.

I've thought for years that the CalArts look is overdone and played out.

Yeah thats pretty much accurate. Our uni pushed the whole "connections" thing during our course but the problem was that we had no one to connect with, like the only major aus animation studio left is Liquid but they never go to events now days because of how stingy they are with hiring.

I'd kill for a shot at going to a uni in america/canada since i'd have a much higher chance of connecting with studios but that doesn't seem like its gonna happen anytime soon :\

My hate for CalArts went from "this fucking style again?" to "fucking hell can anyone NOT from CalArts get a job in cartoons anymore?"

I don't have a link to it unfortunately, but there's a post somewhere that's just this humongous deconstruction of just how much of a plague CalArts is on the industry. Not because of any kind of art style, but because if you're not a CalArts alumni, then fuck you, you have like a 1% chance of getting any work in animation you sorry sack of shit. Should've been born in or moved to California! Tough shit, better luck next life.

This is legit the situation. I have a friend who's sister went to CalArts and she applied to a studio i applied to, she got the job literally the next day meanwhile i had to wait 2 weeks for the rejection email. It's so fucking stupid that this is the state of the industry that people outside of CalArt's are just being told to fuck off and die.

CalArt's is legit just a plague on the industry right now, anyone thats not CalArt's has to go indie or look for some sort of back up career. Good thing most animators mix illustration with animation because illustration is a fucking safe fall back since everyone needs illustrators.

Is this it?

That list is a really big part of it, yeah. Other parts were students from other colleges getting internships, and basically being spit on because they weren't from CalArts. Others involved students that graduated with straight horseshit material, and then just immediately getting jobs right out the gate simply because they came from CalArts.

You don't need to have gone to a school/institution in order to ape a style. Influence can permeate a shit ton.

There's truth to the meme. Someone should post that list of animated films where 89% of directors were cal arts grads.

johnkstuff.blogspot.com/2010/01/cal-arts-style.html

Here he explains it. To summarize,

>the stereotypical slanted oval eyes/C ears CalArts look came from 1960s-70s era Disney and Don Bluth
>this was an organic style that the Nine Old Men had developed with decades of experience and practice, and which was tailored specifically to the characters and styles they were doing
>while the NOM had a near-mastery of fluid animation and construction by this late point, their art styles were also static and formulaic
>in short, they'd decided on a particular look and feel they liked and ran with it for years and years until retiring
>problem being, young animators wanted to copy the Disney style, but lacked the experience of the NOM or the understanding of why they drew things the way they did
>also those late career Disney movies like The Jungle Book were at the point where the core Disney animators had stopped innovating or coming up with new ways of doing things

Nigga them be craniums.

Notice how tom and others are drawn in more than 3/4 view.

america.aljazeera.com/watch/shows/america-tonight/articles/2014/10/14/calarts-sexual-assault.html

Don't forget they treated a rape victim as a joke and asked some of the most downright disgusting questions in a serious investigation.

I mean I agree that the school's overly prolific, but... it WAS founded by Disney himself, so it makes sense that its graduates would go on to make films for Disney.

While i somewhat get that people going to study at a disney founded uni would work in disney, i think most people dont understand why the fuck CalArt's has to be the special uni which gets you instantly hired at literally any studio? Other uni/college's teach you literally the same shit yet for some reason CalArts gives you a +1 boost to being hired over all others.

It just highlights a huge bias thats rampart in the industry.

California Institute of the Arts (CalArts) is a private art school in southern California founded by Walt Disney as a place to train aspiring animators/ artists. People hate it for a bunch of reasons, from "CalArts Style", how private/ exclusive it's considered, how expensive it is, the success of its students (especially animation students), etc, and probably a bunch of other things that vary for different people.

There are legit reasons to be frustrated at the school, but most of these are taken so far out of context that a lot people seem to see it as some evil caricature of itself.

The problem isn't that a lot of people get hired from CalArt, it's that everyone who studied at any other art school basically gets told to eat shit and die, I'm amazed animation studios don't put landmines in their mail boxes instead of rejection letters.

God bless anonymity.

I remember the mention of the meme on twitter, and everyone (who was an alumni or kissing up to them) proceeded to say that it was all out ignornace and jealousy.

I had a few ideas on why

>It's because Cal Arts is Disney, the most successful animation company ever born. So people want them, and essentially no one else

>Employee's creators, etc want to create an environment where everyone came from the same damn place so they work in a environment that is more familiar to them.

>There's no other really big college for animation besides it. So for them it's basically, you either went to Cal Arts, or You Better have been so goddamn good that the only reason you didn't go to Cal Arts was because they were full

It's the best animation school in the world, and people are jelly.

Honestly anyone who kisses up to them needs a good hit in the face, the reason they've become such a blight is because of people who do that exact same shit. Like no please, its not like anybody else is trying to pursue their career. CalArt's just exists as an external cock block to basically tell people to fuck off and that they're not wanted.

Honest to god this shit needs to stop, creating environments that are filled with the same students just seeks to promote what i call the "high school environment" which is literally just a studio filled with the same fucks and dont really get rid of them because they're all working together. I mean if you have people outside of just CalArt's, i bet my ass you'd get some better results instead of half this mindless shit we have now.

Byron Howard who directed Bolt, Zootopia, and Tangled went to Evergreen State.

From everything I've heard CalArts students aren't actually hired for animation as often as other colleges, like Ringling. CalArts students are usually more hired for story and design work.

It's true
Most haters couldn't make it to CalArts
They couldn't even make it into an Arts Institute

Ouch, that's cold.

In all honesty it has nothing to do with being "jelly" there are people who put loads of time and effort into making great content but don't ever get into calarts / don't get hired simply because they didn't go to it.


This has nothing to do with jealousy, it's to do with people having a name stapled on their resume that screams "hey look i paid a lot of fucking money to go to this over priced university" not everyone can afford to go to calarts and some have to settle for less than super but that shouldn't mean you're instantly brushed off the hiring list simply because of the uni you went to.


Uni name =/= skill.

To be honest art colleges that try to teach one style are a cancer and need to be destroyed. Teaching to draw for a specific style completely ruins the idea of art and creates a shit environment for people who want to create new things.

Every time I see the CalArts style I just wonder how many of the animators can do actual object or human studies. Normally by looking at the cartoon you can tell if the animators know their shit or not.

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There's truth to this, as there is very little animating in LA nowadays to begin with. People trying to get into the industry in LA have a better chance of getting a job in design, storyboards or backgrounds than as an animator, and should present their applications and portfolios accordingly.
Somehow I have a feeling that Calarts students are aware of this.

Sorry user, can tell you from experience they don't teach or force students to draw in any one style.

No but the networks sure as hell do.

So is CalArts to Sup Forums the jews to Sup Forums?

> LOOK MOM I MADE IT AGAIN
no
you do not get to do this over and over faggot

So put the blame on the fucking responsible, otherwise you are being less than useless, you are not helping changing it.

Definitely, but that's because they're on the business side of animation and want to keep costs down. It more cost effective if the characters are easier to animate when the animation is sent out to Korea, since it doesn't take as long. But that doesn't have anything to do with the school, that's networks and executives who need to run a business.

But can you blame a school for that? How many Calarts grads do you expect are in that kind of executive position of power?

>Honest to god this shit needs to stop, creating environments that are filled with the same students just seeks to promote what i call the "high school environment" which is literally just a studio filled with the same fucks and dont really get rid of them because they're all working together. I mean if you have people outside of just CalArt's, i bet my ass you'd get some better results instead of half this mindless shit we have now.


NO PROBLEM user! THIS IS WHY THE NUPPG WORKERS NEVER WENT TO CALARTS, AND THIS IS WHY SU CONTACT PEOPLE LIKE ZUKE!

It sure is a good idea!

No seriously, things are slowly changing.

It's not, though. Show runners say all the time how they get artists for their shows.

They just browse tumblr and shit for cool art and comics and email the people they like. If you want to board for Disney, just put your work where people can see it.

youtube.com/watch?v=TB90iDxOcIg

With love, /ic/

MacFarlane went to RISD

Wow, she sounds bitter.

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>Rebecca Sugar gets hired for drawing gay Ed, Edd, and Eddy porn
>Alex Hirsch gets hired for drawing anti-Bush cartoons

So the more Tumblr you are, the more likely you get an offer, right?

Sure. Whatever, faggot.

This girl is a total narcissist, isn't she?

The girl is being completely wrecked on the comments tho.

Looking through her videos, she sounds like how your typical Sup Forums poster would complain about the art industry, despite having never been in it.

But the difference being that she actually fucking draws.

Well i mean, i wouldn't blame her to be honest. The material that comes out of CalArt's lately seems fucking stupid compared to what she's drawn, the sketchbooks themselves are what ever but her art clearly shows fucking skill and knowledge.

This is the issue, CalArt's doesn't outline their standards and shit clearly and just slams on you. I mean you could be fucking picasso but they'd still shoot you down.

You're her, aren't you?

>style that the Nine Old Men had developed with decades of experience and practice, and which was tailored specifically to the characters and styles they were doing
>problem being, young animators wanted to copy the Disney style, but lacked the experience of the NOM or the understanding of why they drew things the way they did

This has been a huge issue amongst artists ever since non-traditional styles became more acceptable. It's especially an issue in this age where people are so quick to copy Rebecca Sugar, Bryan Lee O'Malley, and most of all Sylvain Chomet. However, art institutions won't call it out since it makes money and keeps nepotistic consistency.

It's expensive as fuck 250k tuition alone for 4 years.

That's a good way to put it.

nah if i was i would've been typing in alot more yaoi dialect.

Speaking of CalArts...

I recently discovered a tumblr post about this school and what I wanna know is that is this post true? I'll post all of it, its in 4 parts.

theres that list again...

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last one

So what do you guys think?

>Pen's a dick

It checks out

My experience is that a lot of [as] shows don't come from Calarts.

Granted, [as] won't let you down because of your alma mater, they'll let you down cause they don't greenlight fucking anything.

rofl there is literally no surprise about this at all. It feels like the more i read about CalArt's today the more im not so miffed about not being born in california and attending it.

Just how in the high fuck does this attitude get bred into people at that college? it feels like its basically feels like elitism 101

"CalArts style" is a style that animators are forced to draw because:

>Low or zero budget
>cartoons are 11-minutes shorts that only works with simple shapes design
>Cartoons audiences that 5-years-old kids that dont give a shit about design or backgrounds of solid color.

33% acceptance rate ain't bad, though with the tuition I don't know how anyone goes in it willing. Animation pays shit so you're gonna be in debt the rest of the life unless your parents are mega rich.

"CalArts style" is a style that animators are forced to draw because:

>Low or zero budget
>cartoons are 11-minutes shorts that only works with simple shapes design
>Cartoons audiences are 5-years-old kids that dont give a shit about design or backgrounds of solid color.

Tuition is like 40- 50 thousand per year, so like 160-200 thousand after 4 years. That's pretty average for private schools. After financial aid it's less than that, but the reason students say how expensive it is, is because CalArts financial aid isn't super great.

That list isn't too bad, but it's not 100% accurate. A couple of the movies (like Monsters vs. Aliens, Antz, probably others) had multiple directors but it just listed one. Also wondering why Tangled isn't on there, directed by Nathan Greno and Byron Howard? Sounds like the person interning had a shitty experience. I don't know about the whole first part since it's a lot of different ideas from one point of view, but it's shitty risk that people sometimes have to take to move to LA (for work or school). It'd be super cool if remote work was more viable, but might not make the best content. Illumination does a lot of out of office work and it doesn't work for everyone, and I think it shows in their movies.

As a creative (not animation, if you're wondering), there do tend to be main 'hubs' for your field.

Designers have to go to New York City, Chicago, LA, etc. to get more opportunities. Programmers have to go to somewhere like Silicon Valley or New York to really get a job. There's just no ifs, and or buts (and if you want to put a butt image after this, be my guest, it'd make my night).

I'm not saying it's ok, but I'm saying this is normal for there to be hubs.

What isn't ok is CalArts elitism. There are art/design schools with even more prestige in general and better placement rates.

>What isn't ok is CalArts elitism

It's non existent in the animation industry. It just comes from bitter fucks reading about it on the internet.

>Bitter fucks


FFS... these people are not bitter you dick licker. There are people who put time and effort into their shit only for CalArt's to consider them unworthy because they dont meet some stupid standard they've set that is super inconsistent. People bust their ass to get to where they are now and when you have shitters like CalArt's/CA students telling you that you suck and have no future, that isn't bitter. It's literally being a dick.

Have you considered that maybe your transcripts are shit or you wrote a dumb letter of intent? It's a universtiy, dude.

>thinking CalArts was this persons main school of choice

Riigghhhhtttt.....

Look, yes, a lot of people would like to go to CalArts for various reasons, good or bad. But remember, there are plenty of people who chose to go to different schools due to culture fit.

Culture fit, prestige and financial aid tend to the deciding factors for kids who go to school.

>you'd know that if actually went to university, like, even if you dropped out, dude.

Not all creative content makers have mind blowing transcripts. Letter of intent is never 100% mind blowing either.

Yes its a university but its a university that has resulted in a massive negative trend of most industries ONLY picking up CA students and disregarding the rest. The tumblr post from earlier highlighted something extremely important, we could literally have some mind blowing animators out in the world right now but because of the CalArt's cockblock they're most likely never going to be able to actually get a chance at it.

Thank you for also mentioning that, region, cost, etc all play deciding factors.

Not everyone can afford a 250k+ college rofl.

its an art school
basically its a hillariously overpriced "education" that lets its students do whatever they want while barely teaching them a thing about making good art, leading to an artistic game a telephone which has since ruined most artistic industries.
No one in the education system will call it out since they fear loosing money if they hurt someones feelings.