Eviscerating the CalArts Style
Showing how the true meaning of the art style can be found in a stupid article.
This article was made to define the discourse of the industry featuring talking points I am familiar with from the various industry people I interacted with. It goes to show why I make Zoomers freak out (currently several are melting down in relation to Puss in Boots The Last Wish on 4chan, screaming for someone to dox me and such) when they are psychologically bred to directly hate me, who is a random person on the internet with no prominence. This article reads as a guide to trolling me.
It posits a sort of riddle which is much more complex than the riddles we know, as it is not really one question but rather a three dimensional construct of questions which are not distinct but blend into each other. A phenomenon such as this is associated with the trickster, whose Emanence involves tricky and curious mysterious facts about the world. These questions include “Why is this article so perfectly meant for trolling a random guy on 4chan?” “Why do cartoon Zoomers lose their minds when they encounter this random guy, even if they haven't read such an article?” “ why is it so important to defend the artistic merits of movies and TV shows which aren't even very popular and have a meager cultural impact? Can't the animation Community just focus on doing better?” my substack and other content can answer these questions and others. If I was not so socially isolated, the content of others could do so as well.
The fact that people besides me never ever meaningfully raise these questions in the past years also goes to Show that they are intentionally spiting the return of the trickster to Creation.
This dril tweet was made soon, 43 minutes, after my own. It itself arises a three-dimensional construct of juxtaposition, while using so few words. Masterful posting. The details of the construct include the Jake character, who is a mean-spirited parody-expy of the Avatar character, shitting his pants in the last Homestuck work, and Dril preferring the obscured pathways of the internet to the mainstream path which involves memes like “Avatar had no cultural impact”, which makes people crappy posters. Which is itself an ironic twist on the fact that the temporary embarrassment of crapping your pants is preferable to the ongoing embarrassment of being a crappy poster: possibly lasting forever; for people like me and him. And also he thinks crappy posters can go screw themselves. And so on and so forth. Dril reconciles those things the mainstream internet refuses to address which have importance they refuse to see.
Returning to the article, it is useful for picking apart the fact that the calarts style can be defined as a reaction to my artistic Revolution which fell apart in the late 00s and the seeds of it such as John K's animation and philosophy. After intentionally spoiling my efforts, the Collective of the animation industry could not simply ignore the vast meaning of what I had attempted to contribute to the world, and believe I will through fifth-dimensional travel in the future. They experienced great stress and strain which contributed to their mental illnesses as were so popular to talk about in the 2010s, the cultural centers of America and therefore much of the world making it fashionable to endlessly talk about being mentally ill, as they continue to avoid the true reasons they were mentally ill which their expensive treatments were merely a Band-Aid over. As my efforts continue I believe they will get to enjoy no longer needing their mental health treatments. Perhaps that can compensate for the painful psychological consequences of the truth coming out as it does.
It has always been trendy to hate on what is popular, and especially what is popular with young female audiences.
This is how the article begins. It is so interesting to remember that I didn't like girl stuff as a teenager because I was a male and normal. As part of seeding my artistic Revolution, I wanted to inspire people I would work with in a few years. These people would include girls. In fact as it turned out I was much better at inspiring girls than boys, perhaps in a better timeline there would be more balance? At any rate by preventing the fruition of my efforts they prevented a girl’s personal take on the popular culture much like my own, balancing my personal masculine perspective so as to provide more fair criticism together back in about 2009. And so as this article represents, the industry culture sneers at my teenage self for having a masculine perspective even though they prevented my solution to this from arising.
My criticism was very harsh back then, even fueled by loathing as with terrible edgy Newgrounds animations, and so this is how my masculinity inspires them to denigrate criticism.
A common Manchild behavior is to cause a problem, then mock people they affected with it because they refuse all adult responsibility.
When a certain animation style becomes the norm, for example, that animation style may begin to see harsh criticism for no other reason than it is “mainstream” and therefore “boring.”
No style should be "the norm” because the most meaningful definition of style is simply someone's identity being seen in his artwork. In order for any of them to be the norm it requires “sucking in” someone else's identity and expressing it instead of your own identity. Causing stuntedness and thus the manchild condition of the industry community.
Next in this sentence we have even more obvious sneering at simply my teenage self. Still to this day the animation Community cannot grapple with the fact that they expended a huge amount of resources into undermining a single teenager who liked Ren and Stimpy over a decade ago. Their psyche pretends like his style of criticism was & is just normal, and it should have been really
They completely disrespect the actual meaning of the terms used. It is clear that they are not using the formerly common definition of mainstream because their “chud” enemies are on the side of mainstream pop culture of the past like Halo and Lord of the Rings.
When I say "mainstream” I refer to an entire world created by humans which is a facsimile of reality and exists between their minds and is reflected in what they create in the world. Derived from protestantism and other sources. It is fake and disrespects what I love such as honest artwork, basedness and improving the culture.
I found things boring all the time as a teenager because they lacked life and passionate masculine creation. It also reminds me of a great Hauntlyre page I have already made. Every new animated movie is just a regurgitation of mainstream animation with nothing to get excited about unless you know nothing better.
Recently, there has been a trend of hating on an aesthetic known as “Cal Arts Style.” However, when one examines the types of films receiving this particular feedback, it becomes clear that it is not a kind of art that is prompting such harsh feedback, but instead a certain type of film. These are usually animated movies with racially and culturally diverse characters that promote tolerance and inclusivity.
Public School-inspired babble. Despite pretending to be purely practical and materialistically minded, people of the mainstream see a disordered and Ill spirituality in even things like public school to protect. And thereby they exclude space for advancing the development of the spiritual dimensions of the Earth, such development including the advancement of cartoons, associated with the black dimension. How to make cartoons better is the very last thing you could learn in public school.
Racially and culturally diverse? How about racially and culturally realized. As I have already examined in part with my article on my kowai kawaii aesthetic, my planned slate of works in the late 00s Drew meaningfully from cultures all around the world, but this preparation was not accepted because my work proceeds from expressing God's original design for creation spread across the various nationalities and races of the Earth. In comparison diversity is just the profane mingling of a crowd, unable to realize any of the traits within the members of the crowd, and their individual traits are hard to notice. My planned work is the exaltation of American culture, wokeness is the diminishing of American culture to a very dim and dreary definition.
So, too, does tolerance and inclusivity (can't even pronounce this word) proceed out of the obscenity of diversity, merely acclimating oneself to the differences of others all around them and having no strong response to them and seeing no strong meaning, all being washed in a fog of ideology as is learned in college. Bringing people together regardless of whether the meaning of their differences necessitates a much more meaningful social Arrangement as with my ongoing narrative about “the Outsider” from earlier in my substack, a special type of African born outside of Africa to people of any race, who achieves things while on the outskirts of a community which no one else can achieve or is very difficult for others to achieve. As is the role I have played many times
Pixar’s Coco (2017), Soul (2020), Luca (2021) and the upcoming release of Turning Red (2022) are favourite targets for ….., recent diverse and inclusive Disney-Pixar movies have gotten heat for perpetuating the “lazy” art of “Cal Arts Style,” a term that has defined several different animation aesthetics since 2010.
It's funny that they include Luca here which features my own partial ethnicity of Italians.
They refer back to a slate of Pixar sequels over the past decade as if they are a storied history of animation to compare favorably with the Decades of Animation history of the 20th century and the many thousands of artists to be found with distinct styles. I have not seen any of them
What is “Cal Arts Style”?
The term “Cal Arts Style” was coined in the 2010 by animator John Kricfalusi in order to mock the animation style allegedly being taught at the California Institute of the Arts …. “derived from late 1950s to 1970s Disney Movies — and Don Bluth — who emulates 1960s Disney movies” being taught to students at Cal Arts.
When these people discuss John Kay's criticism they completely Miss his whole philosophy surrounding his criticism, refraining from sharing it with young people who never encountered his criticism directly, which is itself a form of grooming, guiding people to believing what you want them to believe instead of believing the truth. It even says he was just "mocking” the art style, which was the sort of characterization I always received as a teenager. And thus dumbass animation Zoomers think it's powerful to just go around mocking John, me and John's fans.
John's philosophy revolves around expressing yourself instead of copying the artists that came before you, which I summed up as “not sucking”, a special form of concise language associated with my artistic works. It proceeds directly into notions of being based before they were defined by a rapper, and so the tender balance of the racial narratives of America depended on hating John back then.
It also screws up the details, the lineage of Disney was passed down from the start of the company, its own philosophy being defined by Walt's personal Vision which he always had, which can be respectable simply because it is his vision- but random people who like Disney too much do not have his vision, and cannot carry it out meaningfully even when they work for the company as you can see from things like turning red.
Kricfalusi criticized Cal Arts Style for being repetitive, lazy, and copy-paste, using all the same line art — especially eyes, hands, and mouths — across several different animated feature films. The original blog post was concerned almost entirely with “recycled” line art in a particular hand-drawn style.
Again things are left out, like John criticizing the color of Disney movies such as Hercules. Considering the things I would later be putting together such as a video game in the genre of DotA and a comic book which merged all the religions and myths of the world, criticizing such depictions of the spiritual world was very helpful to me in my upcoming vision. Later Pixar's Soul was made which is obscenely bad, proceeding out of John K hater culture throughout the industry. Hercules was Charming in various respects, Soul is almost entirely devoid of anything which I would like aside from the general concept of a black guy who makes music, which is very little
“Lazy,” not really, a lot of effort went into those features as with the camera angles he talked about. Animating skills suffered back then but not really due to laziness, but rather the Guiding philosophy and structure of animation work from the big studios. When Steven Universe after the first one or two seasons hit, that's when things got super duper lazy
Since the 2010s, the definition of “Cal Arts Style” has become far less concrete. For several years it was used (primarily on Tumblr) to describe the “bean head” style of popular cartoons including Adventure Time, Steven Universe, and Gravity Falls, none of which use directly “recycled” frames in the same way that Disney was often guilty of during their celluloid era. Instead, they use generic shapes in character design that make the art style simplified and easily reproducible.
Here we can see some of the changes after John K's blog such as an ill pun. Considerations indeed became less “concrete” and physical which is part of the whole impact I aimed to have as the number one John K fan. My whole artistic style Blends reality with other things, essentially nothing is literal.
And so my criticism and the criticisms I inspired involves abstract qualities such as how everybody in the industry started to have the same personality and the same behavior, which can be symbolized by depicting their cartoon characters as having the same face shape with the same smile. I also have been referring to the significance of worms in my previous articles, and it is said to look like a worm. I also referenced them being enormous, and in a fairy tale reference beans can grow a beanstalk to a world of giants. Therefore this gives additional meaning to the term “Beanmouth” Beyond how it is actually drawn. I wasn't involved in the development of this Meme at all, in fact I criticized it which proceeds from not being easy to impress and also non-literally comatose at the time.
Golden Age animation also used basic shapes but with much more skill. "Easily reproducible” proceeds from the anguished industry desire to make it looked like they actually achieved what I wanted to achieve, as I can achieve extremely Advanced cartooning compared to what we have suffered over the 2010s, difficult to grasp how to draw it, necessitating a drawing approach that is easily reproducible for beginners and others who need it like people who worked on bad cartoons.
This version of Cal Arts Style is a particular brand of thin line art depicting characters with comprised of rounded shapes: big bean-shaped heads, small rounded bodies, solid pupils, gummy-worm grins, and noodle arms. These characters appear boneless, over-simplified….. “Cal Arts Style” came to refer to the current Pixar animated film style, despite barely resembling the thin-line, unshaded, detail-less art of 2010s cartoons.
Here they demonstrate complete lack of artistic sight that they are merely 3D versions of the degenerated Steven Universe style, also with influence from things like Homestuck. People in the industry become Artistically Blind, spiting the advancements in perception and nuance throughout the art communities I wanted to make, and also refraining from seeing artistic qualities helps them avoid feeling that the animation they defend is obviously shit with a shit aesthetic.
I create very bony creatures and so such things about their ‘work’ are an element of spiting me as well. These industry conventions do their best to Stave off my influence as a random artist and philosopher on the internet, such as with /co/-sourced artists such as Rebecca sugar and her husband.
Finding New Ways to Be Derogatory
“Cal Arts Style” is a controversial term in the animation world because it is — rather lazily — used almost exclusively to refer to whatever style is currently trending in the industry. According to Kelsey McCarthy writing for Redbubble, calling animation “Cal Arts Style” has become a “somewhat derogatory” shorthand for being a “lazy artist,” since animation using generic, rounded shapes can be “easily copied” and therefore are “thought of as being unoriginal.”
“Derogatory" boo hoo.
Next they use another form of groomy framing which is making their methods sound like Golden Age methods. These people haven't even read the Preston Blair book which teaches how to use those methods, and I have angered their Defenders on /co/ simply by posting the pages. After all now young artists have gotten a proper classic cartoon education simply by reading my posts, which they can't get from an expensive Art School.
The “styles" they referred to are meaningless, the difference between Steven Universe and Craig of the creek is that Steven Universe had promise but it was ruined and Craig never had promise at all, it was only a fake black cartoon from conception.
Controversial, all criticism is controversial. If they start accepting criticism they will start thinking about what they did to a teenage poster who tried to change the world with comics and cartoons.
Because the benchmark for what “counts” as Cal Arts Style is constantly changing, the term has essentially become meaningless in actual discussions of animation. If it was used to exclusively refer to… shows like Steven Universe, it would at least have a purpose outside of being a rather rude way to call and artist’s style lazy or unoriginal. Instead, it has become a “catch-all” for animation deemed too simplistic, stylized, or “cartoony,” and therefore adds nothing to animation discourse.
Actual discussions of animation are industry discussions where they don't care about finding the truth.
When they speak of a purpose it is likely sawing off the ladder after they climbed up to…. Nowhere in particular but they don't see it that way. Steven Universe came from both John K and myself as I will examine later in detail, so they feel fine with sacrificing it.
In the last part we can see them actually imitating myself, trying to sound like they are outraged at besmirching simple stylized artwork as I actually draw.
The derangement of Industry people comes from them swapping between all these various things I analyzed, first trying to sound like a based enjoyer of cartoons, then becoming purely clinical and self-interestly corporate, and so forth
They want to imitate my powerful Dunks but they proceed out of what I can contribute and the outrages I am against
The four films I presented at the start of this article look nothing like Steven Universe —and they can’t, because 3-D animation requires a significantly different skill set than line art and is, well, not flat. Pixar’s 3-D movies have …. called “Cal Arts Style.” Calling movies like Soul and Luca “Cal Artsy” only makes sense if the term has become a shorthand for something else — either simply “being mainstream,” or something much more insidious, like racism.
Now they say typical moron stuff. People in the industry Preserve their utter stupidity about cartoons like a valuable resource.
Being CGI doesn't change the drawing style as you can see easily from the storyboards or stuff like that Lupin movie. Neither does shading change the style but it can add new style, or ruin the style if it's done badly. This is just artistically illiterate stuff
And yes being mainstream is the bad thing though you will never see that discussion off of my content. Soul represents the mainstream view of the afterlife as a corporate bureaucracy, also seen in the good place and such trash. When I first was having my near death experience, there was an evil being who himself believed he was a part of a space bureaucracy, and so this movie Soul contains the evil of evil spirits.
Racism, what mainstream people hate the most is my view of the Real Races without the tarnishment of sin. I've cared about that ever since I was getting upset that Sebastian in The Little Mermaid was so bland. And this has a vast Cosmic significance, as you can see by immediately after speaking of this in my previous article, there was a car accident involving a cartoon YouTuber who uses the Shiny monster as an avatar. That's the way it is
In that article I spoke of finding window panes on the ground which looked like they they were from car windows. I wondered if this was an omen, and that wasn't the sort of omen I was thinking about. This goes to show that as the industry tries to make everything trivial, there is indeed a vast spiritual significance to cartoons which can have severe consequences in people's lives
By interfering with my efforts they were interfering with an Awakening of Consciousness about the nature of the races. There have been many disasters as a result, and constant reminders of the need to Go Back for those willing to see
Race and Luca, seems like the sort of thing that can only be said because cartoons are ethnically important to Italians as is artwork in general and the Renaissance I attempted. They don't want to know about all that, they just preferred to call the characters gay
urning Red, the latest in a series of films with a culturally diverse cast of characters, has been subjected to horrendous reviews… and it isn’t even out yet! ….. Turning Red features a Chinese-Canadian preteen learning to cope with the unexpected bodily changes puberty brings (i.e., turning into a giant red panda). It is also first Pixar movie directed entirely by a woman, Domee Shi, and features the first-ever fully female leadership team, from producer Lindsey Collins through the art and story departments.
Culturally diverse for sure, it proceeds out of the diverse garbage of 2012 Tumblr culture formed by shitty College education, gravity falls, homestuck, social justice, and other incestuously related things.
"Isn't even out yet” the industry acts as if every single critic will watch every single one of their movies when even professional critics don't do that. Consumerism grooming
It is also tarnishing the significance of simply looking at artwork, which comes so naturally to people they need to put tons of effort into doing it, like tarnishing the experience of breathing.
Next we have sexual grooming. IT addresses the unexpected bodily changes by tons of sexual hedonism symbolism like being videoed shaking two cans into her mouth and rebuking the sexual traditionalism of her mother. After the movie was actually released, they became much more shy about saying there was anything to this element besides menstruation- I guess we really did have to wait for something!
“Female perspectives” only mean something if they could communicate meaningful things, not narcissism, keeping the shitty social media culture they enjoyed alive, and being pro-choice. Works such as the Terminator remain far better depictions of femininity no matter how much people who hate others want to whine about them being made by a man.
As it turns out, “animation bros” don’t take too kindly to women and racial minorities “invading” an industry that has been predominantly white and male since the 1930s. Just as there were protests about the all-female reboot of Ghostbusters before the movie was even finished, so too has there been an outcry about the number of recent movies highlighting nonwhite experiences.
Easy to assume everybody shares the same demographics when you can't see them on the internet. About the only place you can have meaningful critical discussion about cartoons these days is the anonymous comics and cartoons Board of 4chan.
Only animation people are stupid enough to still speak fondly of the Ghostbusters reboot.
These non-white experiences come from non-christians living Hellbound lives as those are the sorts of people allowed to work in Hollywood and other places. I don't want to see their perspective on the world except through the prism of what I understand about hell.
Those white men were actual masters of cartooning and their accomplishments should be respected alongside people such as Lynne Naylor. If you have something to contribute, prove it instead of whining a damn thing.
While legitimate criticisms can be made about movies like Soul and whether it appropriately captured the experience of being a struggling Black jazz musician in America, …..
Only woke in-fighting is legitimate. Can't wait to see how they tear each other apart
“Cal Arts Style” Isn’t Real
These explanations amount to grooming Zoomers about how they should see the world.
The argument that animation has devolved into a “lazy” game of cut-and-paste is flat out wrong, and deliberately disingenuous.
Saying “cut and paste" over and over suggests they are supposed to be literally identical to designs from older shows, which would be illegal
If we go back to the example of the “bean head” style I showed above versus the official character renders in the same pose, it is obvious that the similarities between character designs across cartoon IPs has been greatly exaggerated:
“official character renders” why are there such a thing? Bob Clampett and Chuck Jones did the characters differently. This tells animation students to believe in the sacred Idol of model sheets which are the only thing to judge cartooning by.
While in the first image it appeared as though all these characters shared the same face, they actually do not: they just share a similar vibe, and that vibe has been very popular and successful in the last few years.
This is a truly pathetic part where they tell students not to actually use their eyes to look at artwork, but rather go by feelings. Thus explaining how they become fucking blind.
One's feelings or “vibes" about cartoons can be defined by many things, such as the fan art you have seen and the experiences of your friends and your real life adventures you associate the cartoons with. It doesn't change the actual lines that are drawn. The only Vibe I feel is lame and comically corny toons, as well as things like tumblr.
Calling art “Cal Arts Style” is mostly just a smokescreen used to attack anything cute, bright, colorful, round, or just not hyper-masculine. You know, the sort of things that young women are often drawn to.
I draw both as you can see in the panel with a flying creature. Industry people simply never got to see that because they interfered with all my artistic projects.
Their own efforts are a remarkably shitty version of what they picked up on from my internet comments, as when I complained about the broken glass look of Fairly OddParents imitators. This has a greater significance than a literal description, as there are many thoughtful elements of Butch Hartman's works which proceed out of his Christianity. When they imitate them they break them up.
Anything even remotely cute, feminine, progressive, inclusive, or “SJW-y” (whatever that means)
They all mean shitty versions of what I aim to achieve as a teenager.
has been co-opted into this conversation of “Cal Arts Style,” when such a thing… doesn’t really exist? Many artists and animators who have never stepped foot in California, let alone at the California Institute of the Arts, have adopted a digital line art that is reflective of current trends in children’s cartoons, but each IP is, in fact, visually distinct and the artists involved worked incredibly hard on them. The same goes for recent 3-D animated films: trends in visual style do not mean artists are getting “lazy”!
Here's a big sandwich of grooming which you can see animation students repeat all the time. Everything is about validating the industry crap instead of progressing to a greater form of cartooning. “it's ok" is how you get your work getting worse and worse as it has gotten.
Granted, those who have been making pronouncements about Pixar’s recent lineup are in the vocal minority, and their tweets — including Bolverk15’s criticism of Turning Red — are often ratio’d, gaining far more comments than likes. Those comments demonstrate that for most viewers, not only is there nothing wrong with Pixar’s animation, but the fact that their last several stand-alone films have been racially and culturally diverse is appealing, rather than a drawback.
Now they tell students to use appeals to popularity. Social media is an aberration of public life, especially before Elon bought Twitter and all this gloating was written. They also like to use Bots to try to get shows renewed and do such things. Real people do not feel strongly about supporting industry products, they tend to just go to the movies as an outing with the family, which they want to do regularly regardless.
To become themselves they become fake. Behind the different skin colors is the soulless eyes of social media people who do things like belittle a “family” member for not being special. Social media freaks can identify with Encanto, natural people cannot. The depravity of their ideas grow over time and sales have fallen accordingly, as with the abstractly depraved lightyear.
They can say it is diverse, but they cannot say it is meaningful. And meaning would actually appeal, as the popular Shiny sequence of Moana, which proceeds out of the Blue dimension of life in God's original design for creation I described in the color nations. My experience with the car crash does as well
The mainstream World recently made a version of this song with sex and partying and drugs shit to tarnish the Transcendent meaning of it. They want to associate these meaningful things with those meaningless and often sinful things, making them seem like just a metaphor for depression or whatever.
What do these films all have in common? They share a visual identity and aesthetic with one another and Pixar’s other films — a style of big, round heads, empty mouths with blocky teeth, soft edges, geometric shapes, bold colour palettes, and realistic textures. They also teach our children how to be empathetic; to see other cultures as beautiful; to live a day in someone else’s shoes; to fight for their passions and pursue their dreams; to see others as complex, unique human beings; and to see beyond the markers of race, culture, gender, and disability to the values we share and the communities we can build together.
Next they simply state they achieved what I wanted to achieve, with garbage.
The mainstream world cannot reconcile the events which transpired with my teenage self, where I dealt it a grievous blow. They must act as if my Revolution happened as planned all along in the text they use to fluff themselves up. They cannot address the grotesque abuse they inflicted upon me as in real life I was doing things like holding up a bedroom door so people could use the bathroom. They must be forced to address it.
I include even things like blocky teeth, as you can see from the large toothy grins as in the first panel of my latest Hauntlyre series.
I’m loving the direction that Pixar and Disney have taken in the last few years. The focus on reproducing particular times and spaces (contemporary Mexico and New York City, 1960s Italy, 2003 Toronto’s Chinatown) and the lived experiences of the people who populate those spaces — even if they live more magical lives than we do — is leading to more nuanced and thoughful stories that will be cherished for years to come.
And they end on a warm and Resonant note for the minds of cartoon Zoomers as they experience the article. Transmitting the attitude that there was not a drastic disaster centered around the year 2009 and everything is well. They fluff Along on their happy cloun, until they do things like see me on 4chan and go Stark raving mad and rant about the significance of me being there, through their depraved and deprived eyes of a person who accepted being groomed, which I did not at 15.
The writer of this article is merely representative of all the others, there's no individual Humanity being expressed. That's in very short supply across the animation community. It speaks from their Collective mouth, and can be analyzed usefully for significance that go beyond the text and imagery of this article.
I'm sure Dana's Soul struggles to say much more meaningful things than the stupid-ass LGBT crap she participates in is capable of.
you are trying to give any drawing criticism with those horrible drawings? holy fucking shit dude
why are you so up your own ass? just because your chickenscratch dogshit drawings aren’t calarts beanmouth shit doesn’t mean they’re any good.