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personally, i appreciate the change. Most of the 80's and 90's designs were lazy copies of each other. duke looked like lion-0 looked like he-man looked like cyclops..........and you'll notice all of them were pretty poorly animated. but i think there has been a serious shift since the anime influence came in, along with bruce timm dominating the DC releases. Detailed designs are a real hinderence in traditional animation, and the proper route SHOULD be to have some simplified design that lends itself to the style and expectations of that particular show.
Alot of the change also has to do with the animation programs they use. you'll see a lot of stuff like foster's imaginary friends that's designed in a way to be successfully animated in flash. very geometric, very simplified, very designed.
IMO the best mix of detail and animation has been avatar. beautiful all the way around.
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