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In contemporary cartoons I notice it more when the eye shape is hand-drawn (like on Star here), but the pupil-white-shines are clearly ellipse-tool shapes.
It's subtle, but it's a mark of two aesthetics that are at odds with each other.
This isn't the case if you step back into the late 90s, when paint-on-cel was still a thing, and digital shape tools weren't as heavily in use. The PPG are constructed from *very* circular shapes, but none of them are math-perfect (because someone had to hand-draw them)
This is especially true for the eyeballs and pupils of a lot of 'flat' cartoon characters in recent decades.
One thing that separates digital 'flat-cartoon' design from its retro predecessors is the availability (and use) of the ellipse drawing tool on computers.
Meaning, mathematically perfect circles and ellipses appear with more frequency.
Based off this initial concept of cute little star fluffs pushing around lumps of all the fur they shed.
Last batch of backgrounds and characters I did for the 'Shellabyrinth' episode of The Mighty Ones. (Season 4 is out now on Hulu!)
Very pink and fluffy.
There's still plenty of time to take legal action against these companies. Don't feel like any of the worst predictions are inevitable.
The models are not there yet. They are novel (often grotesque) mimics at best. And good examples have been cherry-picked.
My 'favorite' is probably this one of Sludge Brad Pitt with an extra severed arm on the left with 6 digits.
In what world are these results astounding? Some folks are living on a different planet.