This ant is expressive and adorable without deviating even slightly from a real ant’s anatomy and yet every time an animated movie has insects as main characters it looks like this:
I’ve gotten multiple notes along the lines of “even Bug’s Life??”
ESPECIALLY Bug’s Life.
These are NIGHTMARE FLESH MUPPET faces slapped on insect bodies, which would be perfectly fine if that was what they were going for, but this apparent attempt to be “cute” only comes out as a fever dream about chitin-plated troll dolls.
Real, unaltered insects are cute:
And before you say “well, cartoon characters need to be able to make recognizable human facial expressions to be relatable, so they need eyebrows and lips,” I give you exhibit B:
Cartoonists are trained to believe that you have to give something a human face to make it “cute” even though the human mind has no difficulty at all feeling emotions for something with an “alien” or “expressionless” face. Just making an inanimate object move around at all is cute. Wall-E was cute. Caterpie is cute. A sunflower with a little hat on it is cute. There’s such a bizarre disconnect between what humans actually find endearing and the formulas taught in animation.
okay WOW even with glasses my eyes are not great because I thought this picture of BB-8 was just an actual screencap of the Force Awakens. I found it on google images and just had no idea it was fan art so I accidentally used it without crediting this person.
@nyearmstrong you call this a “doodle” and I thought it was a damn movie still
