One of the biggest grievances some folks over on the Ben 10 2016 thread have had have been the art style looking too similar to PPG16's. I noticed the similarities too and decided to look into the designs of other CN shows and noticed a...rather glaring trend in many of them.
These two shots are from the recently released clip of the Ben 10 reboot.
This one is from PPG16.
And this is from We Bare Bears.
The biggest problem that I see here is that the the designs for main characters and supporting/BG characters have no unifying sense of direction. Any characters not the MCs all seem to have the standard 'cartoon human' look with very little variety in shapes.
It almost feels like one could take a BG character from WBB and drop him or her into Ben 10 2016 and they would fit in perfectly.
I can't explain it, but I honestly think this has something to do with CN's artists all being from the same place, working on previous CN shows for years. After awhile, I think having the same artists around creates a standardized BG/Human character look that doesn't mesh well with the MCs. They don't have any new people who haven't worked on AT or Flapjack who could come in with a fresher artistic vision for every character.
When it comes down to it all, CN might have the STORY quality, but Nick and Disney seem to have CN beat in the visual variety department.
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These two shots are from the recently released clip of the Ben 10 reboot.
This one is from PPG16.
And this is from We Bare Bears.
The biggest problem that I see here is that the the designs for main characters and supporting/BG characters have no unifying sense of direction. Any characters not the MCs all seem to have the standard 'cartoon human' look with very little variety in shapes.
It almost feels like one could take a BG character from WBB and drop him or her into Ben 10 2016 and they would fit in perfectly.
I can't explain it, but I honestly think this has something to do with CN's artists all being from the same place, working on previous CN shows for years. After awhile, I think having the same artists around creates a standardized BG/Human character look that doesn't mesh well with the MCs. They don't have any new people who haven't worked on AT or Flapjack who could come in with a fresher artistic vision for every character.
When it comes down to it all, CN might have the STORY quality, but Nick and Disney seem to have CN beat in the visual variety department.
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