This is discussion archived from a time before the current discussion method was installed.
BT The P - Uhhhh... Samurai Jack was famous for having NO outlines around its characters. It's the exact opposite of this style.
Phartman: You know what's weird, though? I never noticed that there were no outlines until someone pointed it out. I guess whoever worked that in must have noticed several other earmarks of Thick-Line Animation present, so they just assumed it was in that style.
Aya:OK, so if a cartoon is done in Squigglevision does it still count as Thick-Line Animation?
Sabel4: Would Ouendan count for the Nintendo DS? I've been playing it lately and it seems to have very thick lines for the animation. Actually, this seems to apply for a lot of GBA and DS games. Think I heard somewhere it has to do with the limitations of the hardware. Anyone able to confirm?
T Servo 2049: Actually, Thick-Line Animation did exist, and was somewhat common, in the 50s. Take a look at this blog, Cartoon Modern: http://cartoonmodern.blogsome.com/
Or, for that matter, watch any cartoon made by UPA.
Filby: "The style is intentionally reminsicent of the design style of the 1950s, and is often called 'retro', despite the fact that very little 1950s animation ever used the style." Is it just me, or is this statement self-contradictory? "It's based on 50s animation, but animation in the 50s didn't look like this."
Bein Sane: Cut "Sources indicate that the trend within kids' cartoons was catalyzed in the mid-1990s by Butch Hartman, when he was a storyboarder for Cartoon Network. He then brought it over to Nickelodeon in the late 1990s after Cartoon Network presumably turned down his proposal for the soon-to-be widely popular The Fairly Oddparents." I hate to get all citation-needed on you, but I don't get the sense that Hartman had much to do with it. Compare the thick-line style of 2 Stupid Dogs, Dexter's Lab, Powerpuff Girls, etc. to Hartman's own contribution to the World Premiere Toons project, Pfish and Chip, which has the thinner outlines and greater detail of, say, Animaniacs.
Mack: Isn't Kim Possible designed to avoid this? I don't think it's "thick" lines at all. The only things which have any lines are the actual characters, and many of them don't use black lines at all, let alone thick, see Kim Possible's hair.
Werdnak84: Samurai Champloo had character designs that were ALWAYS drawn in this style for EVERYONE? This is clearly false. The show played with style, sure, but the basic look had the characters in normal lines.
