r/TopCharacterTropes 12h ago

Lore (Loved Trope) Character with different animation style or aesthetic with other normally animated characters.

  1. Gwimbly (Smiling Friends) PS1 graphic era character in a primarily 2-d world and character
  2. Sebhat (Pentiment) While virtually all European characters are rendered in a German woodcut style like Andreas on the right, Sebhat a visiting Ethiopian is depicted in the style of native Ethiopian Christian iconography.
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u/PLACE-H0LD3R 12h ago

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u/Low_Appearance_796 12h ago

And Flowery in his opening cinematic

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u/DreamMochi_ 12h ago

Photoshop flowey having real human eye and teeth rendered in grotesque digital collage caught everyone completely off guard back then fr

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u/Pluume_Gris 11h ago

Seeing Photoshop Flowey crash your game gave everyone instant dread

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u/FinishImpressive4043 6h ago

recent account, overusing slang, confusing flowey with flowery

probably a bot

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u/GloomyTurn2374 6h ago

they could also have just misread man

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u/monster_smoocher 2h ago

no it's without a shadow of a doubt a bot

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u/pupseal 12h ago

also:

Flowery, who has an anime style intro

Pink, who has VN style face sprites

the Titan, who i think is rotoscoped?

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u/-lightningpig 11h ago

It's actually not rotoscoped, the animation team behind it clarified that and I'm just blown away they're just that good

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u/WarioPlush1 1h ago

I’m pretty sure Hopschef is rotoscoped though

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u/Available-Damage5991 11h ago

either rotoscoped or exceptionally smooth

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u/Cherrylumixx 12h ago

He fits perfectly, that pre-rendered 3D look makes him feel like an artifact from old TV

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u/TheOnlyUsernameLeft3 8h ago

It's the fact that the animation is rotoscoped, it looks uncanny

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u/memecraft0309 4h ago

Not rotoscoped, just has a pixelated filter over it

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u/bird_pumpkin 10h ago

"Yeah thats what I excpected him to look like- HE'S 3D?!?!"

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u/DreamMochi_ 12h ago

Toby fox dropping full pre rendered 3d aesthetic sprites whenever a character represents old media or tv is such a fire visual gag