Line #9 Main/LineBoil


1	Line boil is the wobble of hand-drawn lines, particularly noticeable when characters are redrawn in every frame even though they are standing still. LimitedAnimation deals with line boil by using the same drawing for parts of the character that aren't moving and only re-drawing the parts that move.
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3	As usual, Administrivia/TropesAreTools. Early 20th century animators [[https://web.archive.org/web/20080620160136/http://www.animationpost.co.uk/notes2/wobble.htm considered line boil an imperfection;]] characters constantly moving around when they're supposed to be stationary can very easily come off as sloppy animation. But on the other hand, deliberately attempting to avoid line boil can have the opposite effect and make characters seem frozen in place like statues, and so line boil and other types of wobbling and jittering can be purposely used or even exaggerated to add a bit more life to characters even when they're standing still.
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10	* The first ending to ''[[Manga/FullmetalAlchemist Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood]]'' uses exaggerated line boil.
11	* ''Powerful Beat'' from ''Anime/{{Tamagotchi}}! Yume Kira Dream''. It's barely noticeable in ''Tamagotchi!'' with Mametchi, even though his outlines are mostly still.
12	* The "Pop Team Cooking" sketches in ''Manga/PopTeamEpic'' make use of this trope as part of their particular art style, which seems to aim more for a "children's cartoon" look.
13	* One of the ''Anime/{{FLCL}}'' eyecatches does this.
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17	* Red Bull commercials.
18	* The Pop-Tarts commercials, which draw heavy influence from (but are not made by) Creator/DonHertzfeldt.
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22	* ''Animation/{{Manivald}}'' is a rare example of this effect on both the characters ''and'' the backgrounds.
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26	* The biography portions of ''WesternAnimation/SitaSingsTheBlues'' have line boil, one of the four art styles in the movie since the creator didn't want the audience to lose interest.
27	* During the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s, many animated Disney movies such as ''WesternAnimation/TheAristocats'' and ''WesternAnimation/TheManyAdventuresofWinniethePooh'' used a Xerox-like artstyle that resulted in the characters sporting sketchy outline-like animation.
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31	* Freelance cartoonist John Caldwell, whose work has appeared in ''Magazine/{{Mad}}'', animates with exaggerated line boil.
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35	* The music video for Music/{{Aha}}'s "Take on Me". Funny enough, line boil was considered extremely undesirable in {{rotoscoping}} in the early days of animation.
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39	* All the character portraits in ''VisualNovel/HotelDuskRoom215'' and ''VisualNovel/LastWindow''. It was even used in Kyle's trophy for ''VideoGame/SuperSmashBrosBrawl''.
40	* Dialogue boxes in ''VideoGame/{{Okami}}''.
41	* ''VideoGame/DokiDokiUniverse'' does this for the cinematics and loading screens.
42	* The ''VideoGame/IttleDew'' series: ''VideoGame/IttleDew1'' and ''VideoGame/IttleDew2'': Done intentionally, generally used to indicate what can be interacted with and what is just scenery.
43	* Every moving sprite in ''VideoGame/BabaIsYou'', including the text. The game has an option to reduce or disable this effect.
44	* ''VideoGame/SuperMarioWorld2YoshisIsland'' has this look for some of the text.
45	* ''VideoGame/RhythmHeaven'' uses this style in the Glee Club shorts.
46	* ''VideoGame/{{Omori}}'' uses line boil on in-battle character and enemy sprites, and a few cutscenes. It contrasts with the crisp, pixelly {{Retreaux}} look of the overworld sprites.
47	* ''VideoGame/PizzaTower'' uses this trope to distinguish enemies and other interactable objects from static level geometry. Even stationary beings that don't move, such as [[SentryGun Cannon Goblinbots]] and [[NPCRoadblock Stupid Rats]], have line boil applied.
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51	* [[http://homestarrunner.com/main9.html This menu page]] on the ''WebAnimation/HomestarRunner'' website.
52	* Grey Gerling ([[http://barfquestion.newgrounds.com/ BarfQuestion]])'s style of animation. For example the WebAnimation/SockSeries.
53	* The more recent installments of the ''Eddsworld'' series.
54	* The ''[[http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/80798 Another Day]]'' flash series.
55	* ''WebAnimation/BamanPiderman''
56	* ''WebAnimation/FesterFish''
57	* The segments focusing on Bob from ''WebAnimation/WeeblAndBob''.
58	* The "Hector & Kovitch" segments of ''WebAnimation/TwoMoreEggs'' are animated this way, as part of an effort to give each sub-series its own style.
59	* Four in Battle for Dream Island, most notably in BFB 12 when responding to Gaty with "What's stopping me from eliminating you?"
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63	* ''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."
64	* The pilot episode of ''WesternAnimation/RockosModernLife'' (''Trash-O-Madness'') featured unusually squiggly lines.
65	** Another Nicktoon, ''WesternAnimation/{{Doug}}'', had squiggly animation in its pilot episode, "Doug Can't Dance".
66	* The 1974 British cartoon ''WesternAnimation/{{Roobarb}}'' and its second season/sequel, ''Roobarb and Custard Too'', upon where everything including the coloring wobbled. This was down to the use of 'Magic Markers' for the colouring.
67	** A similar effect in the Yugoslavian animated short 'Passenger, Second Class'
68	* ''WesternAnimation/HenrysCat'', from the creator of ''Roobarb''. Imagine an acid trip, but for toddlers.
69	* The Creator/{{PBS}} Kids ''P-Pals''.
70	* ''WesternAnimation/TheCatCameBack''
71	* One episode of ''WesternAnimation/{{Arthur}}'' featured a parody of ''WesternAnimation/DrKatzProfessionalTherapist'', with all of the characters drawn this way (see its entry below).
72	* Most of the shorts on ''O Canada'', which included ''Bob and Margaret'', that later became its own show, though seasons 3 and 4 of ''Bob and Margaret'' did not feature the line boil effect
73	* ''WesternAnimation/TheKillingOfAnEgg'' (or ''Ei om Zeep''), a 1977 short by Dutch animator Paul Driessen that ran from time to time on Nickelodeon back in the early 1990s.
74	* John K's ''[[WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons Simpsons]]'' couch gag varies between extremely still lines and extremely boiling lines.
75	* Cartoons animated in SquiggleVision:
76	** ''WesternAnimation/DrKatzProfessionalTherapist''
77	** First season of ''WesternAnimation/HomeMovies'' (later seasons use non-squiggly Flash animation)
78	** ''WesternAnimation/ScienceCourt'' (which itself was later renamed ''Squigglevision'' and slightly reformatted)
79	* ''WesternAnimation/StickinAround'' which used software by the name of Boiler Paint unrelated to [=SquiggleVision=]. The first season, as well as the 1994 shorts, had both paint and line boil. After that, the line boil was dropped.
80	* Creator/WinsorMcCay's groundbreaking 1911 short based on his ''WesternAnimation/LittleNemo'' comic strip features this, as well as boiling colors, since each character in the cartoon was hand-drawn and hand-colored.
81	** 1914's ''WesternAnimation/GertieTheDinosaur'', also by [=McCay=], features it in the background, as the entire drawing had to be retraced for every frame. [=McCay=] actually ''liked'' the effect, as the unsteadiness of the lines seemed to make the whole scene come alive.
82	* ''WesternAnimation/TheBigSnit'' has exaggerated line boil for its characters.
83	** As did ''Getting Started'' from the same director, six years prior.
84	* The 1960s Creator/{{Filmation}} cartoon ''WesternAnimation/TheNewAdventuresOfSuperman'' has a bit of line boil.
85	* The ''WesternAnimation/HenryHugglemonster'' episode "The Mighty Heromonsters" uses this during scenes in Henry's comic book. The background as well.
86	* Shown most of the time in ''WesternAnimation/TamagotchiVideoAdventures''.
87	* ''WesternAnimation/YourFace'' and other early works by Creator/BillPlympton feature this, since Plympton drew each panel by hand. It helps reinforce the surreal atmosphere of Plympton's work.
88	* The outlines of the characters constantly wobble in ''WesternAnimation/BB3B''.
89	* ''WesternAnimation/BlackFly''
90	* While ''WesternAnimation/SamuraiJack'' normally doesn't feature this trope (its art style usually doesn't have lines ''at all''), there is some line boil during the ArtShift sequence in the [[NightmareFuel/SamuraiJack horrifying]] episode "Jack and the Haunted House".
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