It's like they're truly going for the "modern" cartoon. You know, anime mixed in, but all of the lessons of anime ripped out hard and replaced with whatever they think "looks right."
Miyazaki is and has always been right.
Paraphrased:
"Animators nowadays don't try to imitate people anymore. They just try and imitate each other." These people are drawing people without realizing what people actually look like.
Webcomics like "Ava's Demon" and "Cucumber Quest" do this artstyle alright, but this
>>3245079and this
>>3245037are when it goes terribly, terribly wrong.
Why objectively I see nothing wrong with
>>3245107It still feels like their ideology is being crammed down my throat. Art is a form of wish fulfillment. Who would want it to be so... Fucking boring. Mundane. If I wanted mundane, I'd draw it myself.