History Main / Squigglevision

The program used to achieve Squigglevision was called Animator Pro. As this program had been around since ''1991'', it was virtually a requirement to switch gears to keep up with the times. As a result, starting with the second season of ''Home Movies'', all future [=Soup2Nuts=] shows used [[UsefulNotes/AdobeFlash Flash animation]] instead.

[[AC:VideoGames]]
* ''VideoGame/DetectiveGrimoire''

* ''VideoGame/TangleTower''

[[AC:Advertising]]
* The animated commercials for Creator/RedBull use this style of animation.

* Commercials for Creator/Red bull use this style of animation.

* ''WesternAnimation/StickinAround''

Squigglevision is the name of a patented computer process by Tom Snyder, used to cut animation costs by creation the illusion of movement through exaggerated [[LineBoil line boil]]. The psychological effect on the audience is similar to that of the {{Jittercam}}, similarly used in anime to create the illusion of movement while cutting down on the amount of drawings used in the animation. This short-lived 90s piece of software is sometimes used to describe all animation with exaggerated [[LineBoil line boil]], including a lot of animation that was done decades before Squigglevison was conceived (and even before its creator was conceived).

* The first season of ''HomeMovies'' (later seasons use non-squiggly Flash animation)
* ''ScienceCourt'' (which itself was later renamed ''Squigglevision'' and slightly reformatted)

* ''Dick and Paula Celebrity Special''
* ''DrKatzProfessionalTherapist''

The program used to achieve Squigglevision was called Animator Pro. As this program had been around since ''1991'', it was virtually a requirement to switch gears to keep up with the times. As a result, starting with the second season of ''Home Movies'', all future [=Soup2Nuts=] shows used [[AdobeFlash Flash animation]] instead.

* ''EdEddNEddy''

* First season of ''HomeMovies'' (later seasons use non-squiggly Flash animation)

* ''Dick and Paula Celebrity Special''
* ''Hey Monie'' (first short only; switched to Flash soon after)

* ''WesternAnimation/EdEddNEddy''

* Juke on ''WesternAnimation/TheAmazingWorldOfGumball'' is drawn in this style.

The program used to achieve Squigglevision was called Animator Pro. As this program had been around since ''1991'', it was virtually a requirement to switch gears to keep up with the times. As a result, starting with the second season of ''Home Movies'', all future [=Soup2Nuts=] shows used Flash animation instead.

* ''O'Grady''

Squigglevision is the name of a patented computer process by Tom Snyder, used to cut animation costs by creation the illusion of movement through exaggerated [[LineBoil line boil]]. The psychological effect on the audience is similar to that of the {{Jittercam}}. Somehow [[TVTropes TVTropes]] adopted the term of this short-lived 90s piece of software to describe all animation with exaggerated line boil, including a lot of animation that was done long before Snyder was born. Early 20th century animators [[http://www.animationpost.co.uk/notes2/wobble.htm considered line boil an imperfection]] that should be minimized. Most of examples below have nothing to do with Squigglevision, despite the name of the trope.

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* The first ending to ''[[Manga/FullmetalAlchemist Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood]]'' is in this style.

[[AC:{{Commercials}}]]
* Red Bull commercials. But British viewers will invariably make a mental association to ''Roobarb and Custard'' and not to ''Dr Katz''. (a show largely unknown outside the USA)
* The PopTarts commercials.

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* The biography portions of ''SitaSingsTheBlues'', one of the 4 art styles in the movie since the creator didn't want the audience to lose interest.

[[AC:Magazine]]
* Freelance cartoonist John Caldwell, whose work has appeared in ''Magazine/{{Mad}}'', draws in this style.

[[AC:{{Music}}]]
* The music video for {{A-Ha}}'s "Take Me Home."

[[AC:VideoGames]]
* All the character portraits in ''HotelDuskRoom215''.
* Dialogue boxes in ''{{Okami}}''.

[[AC:WebAnimation]]
* [[http://homestarrunner.com/main9.html This menu page]] on the ''WebAnimation/HomestarRunner'' website.
* Grey Gerling ([[http://barfquestion.newgrounds.com/ BarfQuestion]])'s style of animation.
* The more recent installments of the ''Eddsworld'' series.
* The ''[[http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/80798 Another Day]]'' flash series.
* [[http://www.youtube.com/show?p=niu3ED-nVrw The "Baman Piderman" shorts]].
* The segments focusing on Bob from ''WeeblandBob''.

* ''WesternAnimation/EdEddNEddy'', at least the characters. Lampshaded in "Smile for the Ed", with Edd's line "Eddy actually thinks he can pass off a crayon drawing as a school photo? I mean, the lines are all wiggly." The line boil was used as an artistic choice by Danny Antonucci rather than a cost-saving measure. The line boil was done the in traditional, expensive, hand-drawn way.

* ''StickinAround'' which used software by the name of Boiler Paint unrelated to Squigglevision.
* The pilot episode of ''RockosModernLife'' (''Trash-O-Madness'') featured unusually squiggly lines.
** Likewise, another Nicktoons, ''{{Doug}}'', had squiggly animation in the pilot episode ''Doug Can't Dance'' as well.
* An old British cartoon called "Roobarb" ( And its second season/sequel "Roobarb and Custard Too"), upon where everything (Including the colouring!) wobbled. The "Roobarb" cartoons date back to 1974.
** Another show by the same creator: Henry's Cat. Imagine a acid trip, but for toddlers.
* The Creator/{{PBS}} Kids P-Pals.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheCatCameBack''
* One episode of ''WesternAnimation/{{Arthur}}'' featured a parody of ''DrKatzProfessionalTherapist'', with all of the characters drawn this way.
* Most of the shorts on OCanada which included BobandMargaret that later became its own show.
* ''The Killing of an Egg''

Style of animation pioneered in the USA by Tom Snyder, which uses animation done ''so'' crudely that, paradoxically, it looks like a lot more is going on than really is. A very similar animation style was used in chidren's animations in Great Britain as early as 1974. This is not to say that Snyder "stole" this animation effect, known to its originators as ''"boiling"'': it is so technologically simple and easy to reproduce that he may well have stumbled on it independently without knowing it had been used before.

Rather than the mostly-static scenes uses by other cheap animation methods (especially those used by {{Filmation}}), five similar but slightly different drawings are run in loops. As a result, everything in the frame seems to vibrate, giving the illusion of hyperactivity of motion, even though nothing in the scene is actually moving. The psychological effect on the audience is similar to that of the {{Jittercam}}.

* ''WesternAnimation/EdEddNEddy'', at least the characters. Lampshaded in "Smile for the Ed", with Edd's line "Eddy actually thinks he can pass off a crayon drawing as a school photo? I mean, the lines are all wiggly." Since it was not a Tom Snyder-Soup2Nuts production, it did not use the Squigglevision trademark.

* ''StickinAround''
* The pilot episode of ''RockosModernLife'' (''Trash-O-Madness'') featured an unusually squiggly line.

* An old British cartoon called "Roobarb" ( And its second season/sequel "Roobarb and Custard Too"), upon where everything (Including the colouring!) wobbled. The "Roobarb" cartoons date back to 1974, a full twenty-odd years before the American version of this cartooning style.