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CLOUDBOND007 wrote:

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New greatest game title:

I was going to say something like "congrats on coming up with a name that's impossible to look up on a search engine." But, surprisingly, it's the first thing that comes up on Google. That's 25 A's, mind you.



I thought I saw this posted more recently, but turns out it was from the previous Post a Picture Topic: http://flyingomelettespal...-we-rule-the-night-.html

Anyways, I'd still like to reply to it.

So, owls like that are supposed to be barn-owls, but they look so little like them that I think something must have happened over the years. Very often, cartoon owls like that look like a cross between barn owls and Great Horned owls. What I think happened, is that over the years owls in cartoons got more and more stylized, and eventually people started to accept that that's how you draw a "cartoon owl." So, cartoonists began to use previous cartoon depictions of the animal as reference, instead of the real thing.

When you really look at it, that first owl looks more like a penguin. Cartoon penguins, incidentally, are also a good example of this phenomenon.

Another good example is cartoon dogs. Brian from Family Guy is supposed to be a beagle, but he looks more like Dogbert than an actual dog.

I think this is part of the reason why so much anime looks the same to most people. Instead of imitating life or drawing people how they see them, some artists draw them as they see them in anime. This is absurdly apparent in Dominic Deegan, where the art not only imitates the anime style, but even the cost-cutting shortcuts taken to make animation easier: snout-noses, side-mouths, simplistic expressions etc.