Just thinking, is the art style only symbolic of the universe or is everything actually like that in-universe?
Art style. But they don’t notice it the same way you dont notice art style of people around you, and fish don’t notice the water.
Strange New Worlds/Lower Decks actually addressed that.
I’m so sad they are cancelling the show after this next season airs in a few weeks. Best animated adaptation of an existing universe.
Same! It’s my favorite current Trek show.
no, what, whyy? :(
They see themselves like that but that’s also their reality, they don’t know otherwise.
You occasionally get situations when the animators switch the art style every now and then, but the characters still exist in the same universe, so I wonder if the characters wonder why everything looks slightly different.
I believe they don’t. They don’t realize there was ever a change.
Inside Out is a great example of just that. While I couldn’t find the scene, here’s an excerpt from tvtropes.com:
*Entering the Abstract Thought Chamber in Inside Out caused the characters to turn into 2D figures with increasingly less defined shapes. *
If I remember correctly, the characters actually acknowledge the shift to less detailed artstyles.
Fair, there are several examples of characters acknowledging the shift in very specific circumstances. Often said circumstances are plot related one way or another.
But usually that’s not the case, and if you have a change of art because now it’s a different studio producing the animation or they release a new season with a different art director and budget then no, it’s implied that the aesthetic status quo has always been the same.
In Peanuts, all adults would sound like “wah wah, wha wah wha wah wha wah”, to which the children would respond as if they made perfect sense.
Then again, I prefer thinking about your second possibility so I’m going with that one:-).
Much like ourselves, they see each other in the cartoon style of their universe.
Some times it’s part of the plot, like in comics such as Gwenpool and 8-Bit Theater. But usually, from what I notice, how a character perceives the world around is not explained.
In Star Trek SNW’s crossover episode with Lower Decks (cartoon), Boimler’s first comment when he meets the crew from SNW is that they look “very realistic”
And eventually it is explained that they see the world as animated because they are all permanently drunk.
There 2D is like our 4D. The same way we can’t see 4D, they see 2D as normal and 3D is unachievable to them as for us 4D. Same with the style. They see themselves at the same style as what is normal to them.
Depends on the author.
It depends on the work, in some it’s symbolic and in some it’s in-universe.
Depends on whether the author is breaking the fourth wall or not
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Don’t bring that here
Like it or not, it’s not being “brought” here; it already exists here.
Hazbin Hotel and Helluva Boss have jokes about the art style. Sounds to me that the characters see each other the way we see them.
Im not high enough to answer that!
I’m not an authority on this but I believe that objectively a character WILL look like “that” but when viewed subjectively they look like “this”. So, in short, to answer your question: yes, but not really. I hope this helps.
In Chip and Dale 2022, they explicitly refer to the “upgrade” to 3D rendering from the old painted style (like plastic surgery to them), so I assume they are fully aware of their art style.
