Can someone explain the >CalArts meme?

>>84365423
CalArts is the most prestigious art school in America and close to LA.
Animation is a relatively small industry so it gets a little cliquey.
Anyone who is anyone either went to CalArts or knew someone who went to CalArts.

So because of how close the network is, trends start to become popular.

Right now, the meme trend is the Adventure Time style ironically bad animation. Where your characters are made out of kidney bean shapes.

>>84365423
No, lurk more or go away.

>>84365556
And the CalArt students now do the AT style because it's the cool thing to do?

>>84365644
Pretty much

>>84365423
Some tumblr shit

>>84365556
>Right now, the meme trend is the Adventure Time style ironically bad animation.

It's decently animated. If you're talking about the STYLE of the show then yeah, to each their own.

>>84365644
No, most people trying to make it big in the animation industry are just borrowing the style since its the popular trend. If you take the time to browse the shorts the students at CalArts produce, you'll see a surprising absence of the "CalArts style" in the sense of how /co/ describes it.

>>84365644
>>84366985
Basically the style is done because the networks want it. They saw how popular and trendy Adventure Time was and "encourage" artists and people who pitch shows to create something visually similar.
Ain't nothing new. Remember when everyone imitated the anime when it was popular? It's all just a phase the industry goes through, and it'll eventually pass.

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>>84367559
Yeah, this. I do wonder what will be the next big trend though.

early 2010s to now is Adventure Time/PenWard style

most of the 2000s was faux anime style

late 90s was EXTREEME/MTV lite

and early 90's was all Ren and Stimpy

>>84367708
>I do wonder what will be the next big trend though.
70s avantgarde Soviet puppet animation.

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>>84367748
>70s avantgarde Soviet puppet animation.
Ah, they'd never get it right: nobody has the imagination or technical difficulties any more.

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Maybe a return to silent-protagonist cartoons with incidental SFX and a sountrack?

Students who graduate and eventually go into animate who draw in a simplistic style similar to adventure time and what not who may or may not get a show whose entire background of drawing and animating is to make quirky and adventurous art but who fail to realize that in an attempt to be so quirky and different they have made a homogenized cookie cutter safe thing that does absolutely nothing new and contributes nothing of value