The reaction to radical breaks in art style from those who consider themselves general anime fandom seems to more often be "Ew, it's different. Burn it! Chiibi said: s. DrGeroCreation said: Chiibi said: s. Western cartoons arguably have more direct competition and lower budgets so they have to have characters with incredibly simple designs yet distinct enough to stand out from the crowd.
Because there's only like 3 channels that actively run cartoons and they often have really high standards to be continued. Such as requiring toy and merch sales that outweigh the cost of making the series or they get delegated to terrible time slots or outright cancelled. Anime on the other hand tends to be following a baseline for adaptations and have the backing of a production committee. Which then inspires other similar ideas further extending the baseline for commonly used features which then creates a cycle.
Maneki-Mew said: The last anime I have seen with same face syndrome was K-on. Before and after I haven't seen that for a long time that all male and female characters had the same face. While the comparison to western animation is not the best since western animations have usually at least twice the budget Japanese studios have, it is interesting because when you compare different manga, they have generally more distinct styles than what is seen in their anime adaptation.
And the reason for that I think is again the budget. Contrary to manga -- the work of a single man helped with a few assistants -- anime is a team work so it makes sense that, as a whole, studios that can be indiscriminately hired by any production comittee would develop some sort of standardisation, just from the sheer number of people involved in the production chain.
Like for shorts like Genius Party it's easy to mantain a level of individuality, but doing this for featured movies is the exception as you noted like Tekkon kinkreet. But again anime movies have usually a higher level of unicity compared to series, because, once again they also have a higher budget than anime series.
DrGeroCreation said: Lol no. Anime has the same spammed no nose, no lips, triangular chin design for female characters. Chiibi Face is the first thing you see so it's more important than body.
Including body also just reinforces the op's point. No they don't. Most of them look different enough to me, at least as far as facial features go. Though I will admit you're a lot more likely to find anime characters with similar faces and hair styles than you are cartoon characters that look a like.
But western cartoonists tend to focus less on realistic designs outside of comic book adaptations, so this gives them more freedom ti create more weird and unique looking characters than anime does. DrGeroCreation said: No they don't. Chiibi said: DrGeroCreation said: No they don't. DrGeroCreation said: Chiibi Face is the first thing you see so it's more important than body. EratiK said: It is interesting because when you compare different manga, they have generally more distinct styles than what is seen in their anime adaptation.
Maneki-Mew I did not pick two random harems. Okay but that doesn't change that the facial character design I mentioned is common. Lips are drawn subtly for close up shots like for kissing but not prevalent throughout.
I agree the eyes would have to be drawn smaller to allow for both the nose and lips. Rapunzel and Belle have sharper almond eyes than the other white ones and Snow White has a more round chin.
If you start reading manga you'll notice a much bigger difference in artstyles. The anime often tend to lose a bit of the authors style and look a bit samey, especially the lower budget ones. DrGeroCreation said: Rapunzel and Belle have sharper almond eyes than the other white ones and Snow White has a more round chin. Chiibi Madoka's chin is triangular like the character from Violet Evergarden despite the fact that she has a wide face.
DrGeroCreation said: Chiibi Madoka's chin is triangular like the character from Violet Evergarden despite the fact that she has a wide face. Chiibi said: DrGeroCreation said: Chiibi Madoka's chin is triangular like the character from Violet Evergarden despite the fact that she has a wide face. Chiibi said: They look far less alike than the princesses, that's for sure.
DrGeroCreation said: They have big eyes, barely any nose, no lips and triangular chins which is the anime style I've been talking about. Chiibi said: NOSE. So wrong again. Most anime are just trying to draw humans as life-sized and not for comedic purposes.
Anime is usually more focused on storytelling rather than character interactions which is the bread and butter of western animation. That doesn't really answer my question. I mean, yeah, I've seen that they might just change an eye shape slightly or use a thicker outline or something like that but for the most part it's the same formula for drawing characters.
There's slightly realistic proportioned one with smaller eyes and heads, chibi style, a sort of halfway between chibi and normal, and then one that tends to be aimed at teenagers where they are more realistically proportioned but with bigger eyes.
If I took the time I could probably list 50 anime series that look almost identical in their character design. I wouldn't be able to do that with Western animation. Azi Offline Joined: Nov Posts: Without doing any research I would go with the fact that that is what defines anime.
It is the established base of the artstyle that rarely changes. It's also consistent that way so the industry is able to keep spitting out so many of them per season. I don't know if that's the reason either as you could easily go for a more realistic animation style than most anime, and some western animation does do that usually not big budget comedy series.
Also there are tons of anime series that have unrealistic looks while still sticking to a generic anime style. Anime is pretty stylised! Even if you try to make a unique one" I don't think that's true if you break out of the flat way of drawing that tends to be used in anime. All you have to do is look at illustrations by various non-anime style artists to see that you can draw characters in a lot of different ways that are more realistic looking than most anime.
Whether it would be possible to actually animate like that is another matter because obviously you have to be able to draw lots of frames in a reasonable amount of time.
I think that's probably true, although anime that does have a distinct art style is still regarded as anime. There are various animes with unrealistic looks but very few of them have hit off. Compared to a generic anime style going that much out of the box with animation style can be a big risk.
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This is especially notable since the first six issues were drawn by Tony Moore, who actually made all of the characters look very distinct from one-another, especially Lori Rick's wife. Tony Moore being a complete and total aversion of this trope makes Charlie Adlard's work following Moore's departure all the more jarring, though he has visibly improved over time.
Wonder Woman : While most of the characters aren't hard to tell apart unless they are noted as part of the story to be identical Harry G. Peter's art of college age girls makes those that aren't a fat or extra buff pretty interchangeable sans hair. As most of the recurring characters are the Holliday Girls it makes it quite difficult to tell if named characters are making a reappearance in an issue unless they are addressed directly.
Comic Strips. All the younger men in Apartment 3-G tend to look alike, at least in the later years when Frank Bolle is the artist. All young, attractive women in Beetle Bailey over the decades, varying only by hairstyle and clothing. They're also drawn in a very different style from the men and older women, with sensuously flowing lines which is only an exaggeration of reality.
The style has shifted somewhat over the years, but the theme hasn't. Two recurring examples are Ms. Buxley and Beetle's previous girlfriend, who look about as different as they can within this technique, but mostly it applies to the hundreds of usually nameless extras Killer and the other soldiers are typically drooling after.
If a young woman is drawn any other way, she's almost without exception meant to be plain or ugly. Calvin and Hobbes did this, to an extent. Less so as the series progressed. Scott Adams, author of Dilbert , isn't quite as bad as certain other examples on this page, but has admitted that he can't draw that many faces.
Characters in FoxTrot are only differentiated by hairstyles and accessories. Andy even changed her hairstyle early on to make her look less like Paige. The original Mandrake the Magician artist Phil Davis had a tendency to draw his characters with very similar faces, except when a character was supposed to look ugly or weird for a specific reason. The characters in Peanuts show extremely little variation in face and body type, being to a large extent distinguished by hairstyle and iconic costume.
If you look just at the faces, Franklin has Charlie Brown's face in dark black and white or brown color , while Peppermint Patty has Chuck's face with six freckles which is rather fitting, as she is in many respects his female counterpart. Lampshaded in this Pearls Before Swine strip. Once George Wunder took over as artist for Terry and the Pirates , this was the rule, with all the characters — male or female — having the same face.
Which was a little odd in the rare strip that featured a woman who was meant to be young and attractive The financially-strapped Disney used several iconic dance scenes, from at least three different movies, over again in Robin Hood.
Deja vu, much? All the scenes were drawn from the exact same live-action source material and, in some cases, Xeroxs of that material. In Meet the Robinsons , a few generic character models are used for minor roles and a few major characters are recycled. Art's model is used as a college student in the Another Believer montage and Franny's model is used for Lewis's mother.
Which is kinda creepy if you think about it. Yes, even the female characters. Pixar actually did this again with Cars where some of the background characters have the exact same vehicle body style! Arguably a Justified Trope in this case, with factories turning them out by the thousands Overall, however, Pixar has been pretty good at averting this.
Even when using the same model, they've been able to create pretty unique characters , whether they be background or main. An example with this would be all non-hero monsters in Monsters, Inc. They designed about half a dozen different Bodies Eyes Limbs Etc, then implemented a process which could mix and match as well as alter the color and scale of each. The end result was the ability to generate hundreds if not thousands of varied monsters that each fell into a "family" based on which Body was used.
In the Disney fandom this is called "Sameface Syndrome", a phrase which is commonly used as a criticism of face-recycling in the Disney Animated Canon , often with detractors of Frozen.
It's likely due to being designed by the same artist; however, Rapunzel from Tangled , Ariel from The Little Mermaid , and Anna from Frozen have similarities. Rapunzel cameos in Frozen , which has led fans to believe she is Anna's and Elsa's cousin , though nothing has been confirmed. An interesting case in the Avantasia Protag AU series. None of the characters have canon designs, but since they're from rock operas , they have vocalists. And the band Avantasia has four separate stories with some of the same vocalists "playing" different characters.
In this fanfic series, each character has been given the face of their canon vocalist, and since it contains characters from all four canon stories, many of them have the same faces.
Including the four main characters. This is lampshaded in series as everyone can see it and the fact is used in various plot points. When two of them meet the third for the first time in the chapter "Departure" : The man on the ground before them It was another double, though this one looked slightly older than Scarecrow.
The man was an exact copy in almost every way. Films — Animated. Invoked by the filmmakers of Anomalisa. Michael suffers from the Fregoli Delusion, a rare syndrome in which the person believes that multiple people are the same person in disguise. With the exception of the eponymous Lisa, to Michael everyone appears to be the same generic white guy, the only variation being different clothing and hairstyles.
Beauty and Warrior : The only differences between the female goddesses are the colors of their clothing and hairstyles; and the only difference between the two brothers is eye color. The DC Animated Movie Universe was an attempt at creating a Shared Universe by having all animated films from then onwards adopt the same art direction. This could have worked better if the character designers used a style similar to their animated series from the 90s and early s, but instead they went with a style where every human and human-adjacent character had identical looks.
In Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa Alex, Marty, Gloria, and Melman find a herd of zebras, among the many herds on the game preserve, and Alex has a hard time distinguishing Marty from the others. He finally manages to identify Marty using the scar on Marty's rump from when Alex bit him in the first movie. In real life, each zebra's pattern of stripes is unique, like human fingerprints. However, it would be like trying to identify a human by using only the fingerprints through a magnifying glass, a task that would be quite difficult.
To make matters worse, they're all voiced by Chris Rock, who voices Marty, and have the same general personality and speech patterns. Mostly averted in Robots , which features a few background characters that are variants on the same model, but otherwise has a fairly diverse array of character designs. In relation to Charles Schulz' style, this trope makes the much advertised reveal of the Little Red-Haired Girl's face in The Peanuts Movie unintentionally humorous: after all the build-up, she looks just like all the other kids, albeit with a slightly smaller nose.
Films — Live-Action. Literature Illustration. In the earlier Warrior Cats graphic novels by James L. Barry, there are hardly any variations in character design. This isn't a problem usually, because in the Graystripe's Adventure series not very many characters appeared at the same time, but in crowd shots it's very problematic. It's especially hilarious in the gathering at the end when there are four cats in the crowd who look exactly like Ravenpaw. Live-Action TV. Flash Gordon cast three near-identical brunette actresses in its three lead female roles, Dale Arden, Princess Aura and Bayliss.
Then it cast a slightly older version of the same actress as Flash's mother. Then they had a duplicate Dale character, Helia. The '' Twilight Zone'' episode "Number 12 Looks Just Like You" presents a future where everyone is given a government-funded surgical makeover at puberty, choosing their new face and figure from a limited catalogue of stock models.
The effect was achieved in the show by having a handful of actors play multiple roles. Enforced by the limits of the medium in The Champion Pub , where every boxer has the exact same character model. The work of John William Waterhouse took this to extremes —the subjects of his paintings all look exactly alike, just with different clothing and, occasionally, hair color.
Several of the Pre-Raphaelites Dante Gabriel Rosetti comes to mind feature this, because they tended to have a few go-to female models they used for most of their pictures. Edward Burne-Jones only does one face, usually from the same angle three-quarters profile with the same long thick neck and broad shoulders.
When it's supposed to be male he puts a beard on it and covers up the neck with armor. It's Janey Morris his model plays everyone in the universe.
Particularly pronounced in his stained-glass windows in Birmingham St Chad's, where Janey Morris is Jesus, the Madonna and the hosts of heaven. Colombian painter and sculptor Fernando Botero , whose human painting subjects are almost always facing forward with the same moon-faced vacuous expression. There is very little variation in the faces that Botero can paint, usually employing facial hair or glasses to modify exactly the same face over and over again. Puppet Shows. Dinosaurs , also made by Jim Henson's team, has unique suits, etc.
Richfield ; all the rest are "played" by a group of customizable costumes which are used for minor characters such as the other Wesayso employees and students seen in the school, and were comprised of both full costumes and hand-puppets. Oobi : Since all of the characters are literal hand puppets , the crew had to find creative ways to make sure the characters didn't all have the same face.
This led to some characters having their fingers extended, some having them curled, and others having a fist-like appearance. There are only a few designs for Anything Muppets in Sesame Street , so some characters are recognisably the same puppet with different hair. For practical reasons this has been the case with most if not all doll lines, namely American Girl , using a few stock face moulds depending on the doll's ethnicity or unique traits if any. The only other things distinguishing the dolls from each other is their hair, skin colour, outfit and their backstories.
LEGO had a stock smiley face for all figures during the 70s and 80s. Sometime in the 90s they decided to use more different prints like bearded man, guy with sunglasses, etc. They do new faces regularly, but lines like City are still plagued with this - for example most of the policemen have the same grumpy expression, and there seems to be only three different female head prints; this is possibly justifiable in how City figures are supposed to be generic everymen with no designated characterisation.
Conversely, licensed themes handle this better because the main characters need to be identifiable, but they still spam the more generic-looking heads like the Norman Osborn one who accordingly was also a Nazi, a Communist , his own son Harry, and the goddamn Batman for mooks and guards. Virtually every mask introduced after the beginning was a one-off for the characters on whom they were used, with very rare exceptions, while almost everyone else still just had the same original twelve.
Also, underneath the masks? The same four or five head pieces, further exacerbated by the first film trilogy which made all the heads the same — but at least background extras weren't "allowed" to wear the same mask types as the main characters. This later became a problem when masks became the only unique part of the toys. After the Inika line, almost all Toa-level figures had a standard template for how they're built. While some of them are visually different, construction-wise they were all nearly the same, and a simple armor swap can make one Toa look like another or a bad guy.
Adverted with the Barraki and Mistika Makuta lines, who all had unique construction making them vastly different from each other, even in the same line the Barraki, in fact, were only similar in the construction of their "skull", while the Mistika Makuta had nothing in common at all.
On Bara Magna, every character used the same headpiece, and not all of them had helmets that covered their face. The youthful and overactive Berix even wore the same type of face-revealing helmet as the veteran, "beyond his prime" Ackar, so aside from their colors, their heads looked the exact same.
The movie of that year only made things worse: due to CGI shortcuts, every character belonging to the same tribe looked the same, whether they were mere extras or plot-relevant characters. In '06, the six Matoran sets were given the exact same masks in the exact same colors as the Toa Metru from '04 okay, Dalu's was half a shade lighter , not recolors, which annoyed the mask-collectors quite a bit.
They released a figure called Umbra the same year, who again was given one of those six masks, meaning that LEGO passed the chance to release a recolored mask twice under a year. In '07, the toy of Sarda was likewise given a standard Toa Metru mask. What's strange is that all the other reused masks of that year were recolors, and even Idris, who came packaged with Sarda, was given recolored mask for some added collectible value.
However, they also gave the same face to all other Mandolorians and the Senate Commandos, who are specifically stated to NOT be clones. Mixels plays with the idea, too. While all the Mixels are completely unique from each other , the Nixels, their enemies, are simply black-and-white cube creatures, with the only difference being three different types of ear toppers. This ends up highlighting how uncreative the Nixels really are, in contrast to the Mixels' high creativity levels.
Minimate faces only have eyes and mouths, no noses, so they tend to look a lot alike. The Mobile Action Xtreme line takes this to new heights, with each two-pack of figures sharing one identical face. Video Games. But this is a special clone town, one that's populated by about 12 people with about 3 or 4 unique looks. You'd think they would have at least bothered to make a few more models, or at least position the people so that identical twins aren't standing right next to each other.
Why yes, they are good friends. The girls of the hentai Bible Black are not only limited to a single face, they all have the same body figure, and CGs featuring more of them will clearly show that they all have the same heights.
It's like they are all clones with different hair and accessories. The anime series mostly attempts to avert this, as the character designer seems to have done their best at making the women as distinguishable as possible from one another. Character models show that, at least for the named characters, they attempted giving each male and female different figures and body types, and all of them are different heights.
This is not completely averted however, as certain characters do look quite a bit alike and un-named background characters are sometimes identical to others.
Bioshock 2 has this with the little sisters in the final cutscene good ending. All 26 Cyber Grannies have the same, gourd-shaped head.
They do have different hairstyles, and in some cases, different skin tones, but their faces are all still basically identical. This is visible in almost everything, stock character designs, stock plots, stock character types, stock Photoshop glowing pink, etc. The characters featured in that animation are all designed by Naru Nanao; a couple of them even come from the same game.
Either way, when it happens it can be jarring indeed. Shiroyuki is a kind hearted girl with a will of steel. She flees from her kingdom to get away from the clutches of a predatory prince, and ends up being the Court Herbalist of the Kingdom of Clarines. Chise was found by Elias Ainsworth at an auction, where he purchased her for a huge sum and brought her home.
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