Just thinking, is the art style only symbolic of the universe or is everything actually like that in-universe?
Strange New Worlds/Lower Decks actually addressed that.
Submitted 2 months ago by dch82@lemmy.zip to showerthoughts@lemmy.world
Just thinking, is the art style only symbolic of the universe or is everything actually like that in-universe?
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 :(
It depends on the author! Authors create symbolic universes and they get to choose the rules of those universes. You can read Robert McKee’s work for more on this.
Depends on the author.
Im not high enough to answer that!
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.
It depends on the work, in some it’s symbolic and in some it’s in-universe.
Centaurworld is a pretty good example of characters being aware of their own animation style as one character slowly transforms between the two.
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.
Most cartoons I assume they just see the world as it is in the cartoon. However SpongeBob SquarePants sees it the way it looks when they do those love action segments.
Much like ourselves, they see each other in the cartoon style of their universe.
Final Crisis had some of this with Thought Robot superman. Iirc they included 3D glasses so you could see Superman reach out to you in our realm. Check out some other Grant Morrison works for trippy meta fiction (pls read Animal Man)
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
AllNewTypeFace@leminal.space 2 months ago
Depends on whether the author is breaking the fourth wall or not