Cartoon Modern
カートゥーン・モダン / 1943–1959 / Style / Animation Styles
UPA's animators dropped Disney-style dimensional realism for flat color fields, simplified lines and stylized movement, bringing mid-century graphic sensibility into animation.
Flat color fields / Omitted outlines / Figures as shapes / Abstract backgrounds
Dictionary entry
- Best used for
- Comparing primary sources and canonical works · Extracting principles that transfer to other media
- Type
- Observe the letters, signs and scale of reference works
- Composition
- Extract the one structure that governs gaze and information
- Material
- Verify the materials and behaviors specific to era, region and process
- Caution
- Don't reduce it to surface signs. Verify the context of era, region, technology and makers.
- Further study
- John Hubley / Gerald McBoing-Boing (1950) / Amid Amidi, Cartoon Modern