Can't believe I still have to say this!
Despite everything you might have heard, there is no "CalArts Style." It doesn't exist. CalArts isn't an art-style or animation studio, it's actually a university for art and animation founded by the Disney brothers. (Yes, THOSE Disney brothers)
I know there's this image going around of these cartoon characters sharing the same head, eyes and smile...
but that's deliberate, misleading exaggeration. In reality..
They're actually very different from one another. Sure, they share a few faint similarities but overall each character and their respective series have their own style and identity.
Animation with those similarities? (Round eyes, mouthes and bendy limbs) There're actual names for that style of animation: Rubber-Hose, Bean-Mouth, Noodle-Arm, Fleischerian. take your pick.
But to call all animation with those little similarities "CalArts"? It's stupid, lazy and dishonest. CalArts didn't create or popularize the Bean-Mouth. Like all art-styles, it became trendy following the major success of shows like Adventure Time, Steven Universe, ect. And most importantly, there is no uniform style at CalArts. In fact, here, let me show you the work of noticeable CalArts Alumni:
Just look at the diverse art-styles and animation, all from former CalArts students!
On a side-note:
Rebbeca Sugar (Steven Universe) never went to CalArts.
Ben Bocquelet (Gumball) never went to CalArts.
Nate Stevenson (She-Ra) never went to CalArts either! (Something I find hilarious since She-Ra doesn't look anything like the aforementioned Bean-Mouth cartoons but rather a bold, modernized version of Sailor Moon)
Another reason why people must stop using the term "CalArts"/"CalArts Style"? It was coined by none other than disgusting predator John K. Yes, John K, the co-creator of Ren & Stimpy who used his influence to prey on teenage girls. (TW: sexual exploitation, grooming, gaslighting.) He coined the term "CalArts"/"CalArts Style" to bash works like The Iron Giant, Animaniacs, Gargoyles, Les Triplettes De Belleville (which is also ridiculous since Sylvain Chomet didn't go to CalArts) along with the works of Disney, Warner Bros., Dreamworks, Richard Williams and Don Bluth. In simple terms, he was a toxic piece of work who loved tearing anything that didn't meet his standards of zany, off-model grotesqueness.
Here, a friend of mine on social media explains better than I can:
Thanks for listening. Hope I helped.
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You know a camp lazlo episode is gonna be a banger (well all of the ones I’ve seen so far are) when Slug boi Slinkman gets the focus. I get why Tom Kenny considers him his fave character to voice:)
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This is just going to be more thinking out loud for me, so feel free to yell at me if I’m getting anything wrong here. But I think that it is at least somewhat important to point out how terrible Lily’s media criticism/literacy skills and takes are for two main reasons.
One reason is that this is the main way she draws in extremely vulnerable people into her audience and grows support, financial/otherwise. Which allows her to continue abusing, grooming, and being a predator towards an ever increasing fucking number of people, while also having many toxic stans that will enable/increase her ability to do so.
Another main reason that I’ve believed this is because LO ties SO. FUCKING. MUCH. Of her abusive behaviors/beliefs into her media criticism. Whether it’s absuing Cypher for not dogmatically agreeing with her own crappy Sylvanas headcannons, hurling xenophobic abuse at people for enjoying Japanese culture and anime, or slandering queer artists that she hates as being pedos, sex pests, or somehow creepy/fetishistic in the children’s cartoons that they create.
There’s just so much of Lily’s absuive behaviors, actions, and ideas that she puts into her media rants themselves, that I think they’re very worthwhile in really dissecting and picking apart. DEFINITELY not as much as her abusive and predatory actions/behaviors outside of her videos are obviously, but still pretty important nonetheless. At least to me at this moment.
You've hit the nail on the head, which is why some people still talk about her media takes. She's one of those people who actually does wrap up her real-world beliefs and manipulative tendencies into the fiction she creates and consumes, along with projecting her fetishes into it and claiming the work itself was fetishistic.
Her channel is pure bait.
The final total we raised for the Transgender Law Center
Thank you all so much for everyone who donated, for everyone who showed up, for everyone who made it clear that there’s a place in the world for trans people, and for trans people for being you
I hope every minute of this pathetic cunt’s life is haunted by the decisions he’s made. He deserves no rest, and no sleep.
futurama season 4 operated on such a cosmic galaxy brain level that it low-key puts any other season of television to shame and the writers kinda fucked up putting their whole pussy into it bc they have yet to produce anything that is even half as solid and consistent. you want heart wrenching emotion that makes you cry but also makes you smile so big because you just love these characters so much? put on "leela's home world." you want heart breaking emotion that makes you cry and have to shut down from the world for a bit because you don't feel anyone loves you as much as seymour did fry but also that's the whole point of the episode so it makes you have an existential crisis? put on "jurassic park." you want Actually Good social commentary? pop in "crimes of the hot" or "a taste of freedom." you want to celebrate your fav found family? put on the comedic bangers that are "teenage mutant leela's hurdles" or "the farnsworth parabox." you want the best romantic payoff of any television series ever? watch "the why of fry." you want an episode that is utter cinematic perfection? "the sting" is right there. and the ultimate cosmic galaxy brain move of making the intended series finale a fucking musical? just absolute genius work. season 4 will never be topped and sometimes I wonder, why bother trying?
No matter who she pays or who pays her JK Rowling will be remembered by us as a rat shit terf who has nothing to offer the planet except hate and crap racist writing.
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