Cartoon characters designs

[Sage Ninja]

I think I agree with the sentiment that I liked the more detailed character designs of the 80's and 90's than the more stylized ones of today. Yeah sometimes they could be off but that was more to do with the animation not the actual character designs. Some of the the detail character designs were just visual eye candy, to the point that sometimes the animation errors flew under my radar.



look at the detail on Peter's face at when they do a close up of him at 4:34, I know alot of you would say that not a big deal but for some reason it is for me.



Look at the close up of Raphature face at 0:40 seconds singing into her microphone. Just awsome.

and I think detalied character designs can exist and still have smooth and fluid animation. Just look at Gargoyals that had very fluid animation and wonderfully detailed character designs with shadows and highlights.





just look at the close ups of the faces and all the movements.

I also find it interesting some of the better animated with detailed character desgins were animated over seas in Japan.

I'm not saying that the characters designs aren't as good now, it better quality animation now but I think I prefere more detail of yester year over the more stylized ones now. And with the advancements in technology they have now I bet that cartoons could have the detailed characters designs they used to have back then with out all the animation errors if they wanted to. It's just easier now I guess to go the simple route, and in a way thats a shame.