I can't think of a single other example of a show declining in animation quality while at the peak of it's popularity

I can't think of a single other example of a show declining in animation quality while at the peak of it's popularity.

It's not like Cartoon Network cut their budget or important people left. What is causing this?

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Its a shitty show

they hired storyboarders off tumblr

Another "Look at me, I hate SU" thread. Oh well...

Sucrose gives too much freedom to her story boarders. This causes ass tons of inconsistencies in basically every aspect of the show's design except the background art, ESPECIALLY character proportions. I'm still not fucking sure how tall Peridot is supposed to be.

ops pic is before they did that

It doesn't really decline in quality, they just switch off on who's controlling the art style from week to week. So it used to be consistently inconsistent.

It's only as of late have they sort of converged on one style/direction.

That has nothing to do with quality.

Maybe CN told them to save some money so they simplified designs such that Korea stops charging them so much.

yes it does

They allow who's ever working on a specific show to draw the character in their own way, off model as fucking

It makes every episode not done by Sugar or someone competent look awful and then you get things like pic related

Shit like this hurts the art quality of the show

There is no quality to this piece of shit show.
Ugly annoying protagonist, bland and unlikable characters, snail pace story, shitty climaxes to buildup, and tons of filler. It is complete shit.

>Blatantly obvious and sometimes jarring design inconsistencies appearing in every episode have nothing to do with a show's overall quality

Okay I guess we've just given up on the pretense of criticism then.

t. idiot who doesn't know cartooning 101

youtube.com/watch?v=GgbglmkGReg
Yep, sometimes the lips don't even sync. How do they keep getting away with it?

>Ugly annoying protagonist, bland and unlikable characters, snail pace story, shitty climaxes to buildup, and tons of filler
>not criticism

Ok buddy. It's not criticism because you don't like what I said.

It's not that the animation is particularly bad, it's just whoever is storybording the episode gets to do the art style for whatever reason. Meaning you have episodes like pic related having ugly ass proportions and going off scale.

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CANT JUKE THE ZUKE

Don't act like you faggots don't deserve it.

yeah he said the quality was declining you illiterate fuck

dont act like you're on some fucking high pillar.

/thread
I used to really enjoy the show but the show keeps going back and forth from hot garbage, to mediocre, to great but recently the show has more mediocre/garbage then great stuff.

Mind you it's not just the animation that's inconsistent. Writing direction is also all over the place as well as character development.

Yes. The amazing world of Gumball

Go spam Sup Forums with another dozen threads about the significance of Steven's ballsack.

Gumball has a fairly good reason for it, they needed to cut costs so they could spend the animation budget on more action scenes and the like.

SU has always been inconsistent with its art from the very beginning and would drastically change by one episode to the next.

>they needed to cut costs so they could spend the animation budget on more action scenes and the like
More like they are lazy fucks now.

>and would drastically change by one episode to the next.
This is real issue of SU. Really what the fuck is their problem?

what the hell is Lamar's deal with gigantic hair

Amethyst's lips looks like a dog's pussy.

>More like they are lazy fucks now.
Nah, artists are good people doing their best.
However I admit that despite loving Gumball, their writers always seem to get stuck on a rut when coming up with episode idea's and just rehash them.

90% of season 2 and 3 were just car chases, to a point they even had a car chase without any damn cars. And now season 5 has been reusing the "Gumball get's obsessed over someone" and "Character's coming up with their own plan/ideas that are drastically over the top due to their imagination" episodes.

A tragic nailgun accident rendered him unable to see or understand proportions.

I thought it was because he was a porn fluffer and someone accidentally nutted in his eye?

I liked the roadrunner episode.

>Nah, artists are good people doing their best.
>doing their best.

Why do you know how a dog's vagina looks like?

That's a weird thing to say man.

Because I own a dog?

is she hot?

Oh God, that edge...

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You're not using the word right. I know how sensitive you SU fags are so I'm sure you consider a lot of mundane things edgy anyway.

Come on over and find out. I'll leave the window open for you to come through.

Gross, cats are way better than your butt-sniffing mutt.

They need to fire Paul and Lemar

Here's the (you) you wanted so bad.

I own a cat too, actually.

nice man, will do
it cool if I bring a few friends over?

Even better. I can show them my gun collection.

aces, I'll be over around 6 O'Clock-ish

I'll be ready when you come over.

hehe

>90% of season 2 and 3 were just car chases
TOK KEK, no. S1 has 1(ONE) car chases scene. S2 has one too. The car chases are a S3-S4 thing. The "Gumball get's obsessed over someone or something" and "Gumball is an asshole for no reasons" started in S3. S3 was a big mistake

Well... it's not like the designs were ever good to begin with.

They made Steven too big early on, then they had to backtrack and make him into a gross looking chibi

Ay, you dissin' my work, fool?

I'm a mothafuckin' artist cause I got that Apache blood in me, nigga. My ancestors were making those cave-paintings and shit with their mothafuckin' fingers, fool, so don't be dissin' my style or you gon' get clapped.

Punk ass bitches always holding me down and not appreciating the arts and craftsmanship a nigga puts in, I swear.

From a gross looking fatboy to a gross looking fatboy chibi. Nice to know gross looking is still a constant for Steven.

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Just start watching a better show.

I miss when he looked like an actual boy his age and not like a mini midget, what the fuck.

That's funny but no dealbreaker for me.

Probably because you can just write it off and excuse it as out of control shapeshifting. Not that you should, but I'm not autistic enough to get upset about this.

Please do not bully that Lamar

Man, it's one thing to take a few minor creative liberties and fuck around with the height and frame of a character (within reason) for perspective's sake but they do it to such a fucking degree that it's starting to become pretty jarring. I mean, feel free to fuck with the angle of a shot to make a certain character look more menacing/ more vulnerable but don't just fucking shrink a previously established big motherfucker for the sake of highlighting a smaller character, that's shit quality and you know it.

The shapeshifting had to be pretty bad to have him in need of a step to reach the countertop. desu all of the off-model shit doesn't bother me so much except for that one

10/10

Is this pic really your argument?

The ever simplifying artstyle is a blessing.

>at the peak of it's popularity.
Hahaha. Man that's sad.

>Ian-Jones Quarterly left to work on O.K K.O
>They forgot that children are the intended demo, not tumblrites

kek

Does Rebecca not provide them with her models for reference? Why is she ok with the inconsistencies in the show? Last episode, the scaling was absolutely horrendous with Peridot looking like an even more stunted dwarf and Lapis twice her original height.

This is what happens when a professional work environment turns into a safe space. No one is criticized, nothing is ever wrong. Everyone gets to feel good except the people watching the show.

>saying that people in the worst, most hateful and intolerant fandom I've seen from any piece of media ever deserve to have their incredibly mediocre show shit on is "edgy"
Hey buddy, you just blow in from Tumblr Town

THE CYRSTAL CLODS SHOT MY SHINS OFF

That's why Zuke had to leave, right?

The blood attracted sharks, so I had to give em fatty.

He's not really being edgy user don't be sensitive

If calling random people faggots for liking something you don't like is a mundane thing for you, then... Well, thats pretty sad actually.

That's the entirety of Sup Forums in a nutshell, user.

Wanna know how I know you're a newfag?

I understand why they don't encourage rigid heights, but consistent relative height should be a given.

dont take it out on others just because your genitalia is small and insignificant

Nice projecting.

I don't know, I have found most people to be quite nice here. Especially on Sup Forums.

Sup Forums IS a nicer board than edgy circlejerks like Sup Forums and Sup Forums, but not the nicest. I'm not sure which board is the most welcoming board on this site, but I do understand your concern and wholeheartedly agree that people should be nicer to each other.

The only change between the second and third designs was that the eyes became permanently rounded, something that much less noticable in motion than in stills.

Have you forgotten episodes such as The Dream and The Boombox where Gumball acted very jerkishly for almost no real reasons at all.

But Gumball's design has only gotten better.

Nah, man. To be fair, this is just "SU sucks. Laugh at how bad it is!" This thread is bringing up an actual issue which puts it slightly above shitpost

>Especially on Sup Forums.
Sup Forums has more respect for their anons than this board does.

Well, I'm not against such threads, criticism is a good thing, but it just doesn't seem that they are bringing up anything new. Every time its the same points - "bad art style", "SJW agenda", "I don't like the characters/plot etc." We are basically having one and the same discussion every day or two.

>The only change between the second and third designs was that the eyes became permanently rounded
And the lack of shading, lighting and proper palettes color for the characters. Current Gumball looks soulless compared to S2 or S1. Nothing in S3-S5 looks this good.

>something that much less noticable in motion than in stills.
KEK .The difference between S2 and post S2 is massive and is much more noticeable in motion.

user, please.

Theres a plot to dislike?

>declining

You sure? Wasn't it always inconsistent as fuck?

I dunno, I sincerely don't see the problem with it. It's definitely an improvement over his S1 design.

>show pander to tumblr after S1
>went downhill since then
really makes u think

I prefer the S2 desing but S1 desing was the best in motion. It's the only tawog desing good at off-model.

Off-model shit shouldn't be a thing in Gumball.
It just speaks about how limited the designs of the characters are if they have to resort to doing this.

/Adv/ is better

/an/ is the only board where I find consistently good threads by people that actually care about the topic.
Except for cats. People are really mixed about those there.

Proper off-model is a vital part of a cartoon and it speaks about how good designed the characters are. Good at off-mode = good design.

Pretty sure this is a screencap from season 1, when Helen Jo was already the most disliked boarder.

She does it because she believes in a off-model philosophy, but she straight-up ignores the many design structures that you still have to follow.

Even Spongebob of all shows can do off-model better nowadays. How embarrassing is that?