Where did this type of design originate?
Rabbids.
>>90109436
cocaine in the executive meeting room
>>90109436
France
>>90109436
Ren and Stimpy
>>90109625
Sadly true.
Rareware
My nightmares, desu
Toy Story, the Aliens.
However Minions made them more "so randumb" and that inturn breeded the rest because of how profitable Minions were.
>>90110129
I forgot about those. They definitely fit.
The trend must run deeper.
>>90109436
the concept of the uncanny valley got spammed everywhere without being evaluated in any way, and the conclusion was "make everything ugly and grotesque and at least it won't weird people out the way hyperreal faces do"
>>90110129
You are aware that the Minions are the most recent of those in OP's picture, right?