This is a fact when watching old cartoons

CarRamrod50 · 7 months

I always called this "Scooby Doo" paint, and find that looking out for it, pays dividends in the gaming world.

SweetLeafKush · 7 months

That's because the background illustrators drew the back drops. Then the cartoonists drew any object that would be of importance on to the scene the background artists had already done.

Pretty nifty really.

PatchyK · 7 months

Conspicuously Light Patch

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Linkitch · 7 months

Old games worked the same way, when ever there was a secret. You could see it was either another color or there was a gap between the pixels.

[deleted] · 7 months

This may be of interest to anyone that finds the great Disney master's work fascinating. It's a pencil sketch animation by Milt Kahl, of the main character in 101 Dalmatians. Absolutely beatuful work.

Pseudorealizm · 7 months

Does this remind anyone else of the first playstation days while playing a game like Resident Evil, when the PS1 made a disc reading noise you knew something was about to pop out and scare you?

notoolinthispool · 7 months

I THOUGHT I WAS THE ONLY ONE!!

-Billy- · 7 months

This is still the case! As a kid, I never understood why they didn't do a better job of blending the two animations... Even in newer ones, random objects in almost every cartoon still stick out from the background when they are not to remain stationary... See it all the time. Still bugs me.

McBurger · 7 months

DBZ lets you know precisely which mountain is about to explode.

bigdubb2491 · 7 months

An interesting watch about another quirk about cartoons that I noticed, but wasn't aware as to reason behind it. Yogi Bear's Collar

Einchy · 7 months

I have the perfect video for this.

http://youtu.be/JGIMxWIddmk

Though, I doubt anyone will see it with the amount of comments.

The_CaCa_Monster · 7 months

OMG yes! I'm 35 and i still can't get enough of cartoons. I watch them all day.

Anike42 · 7 months

I thought I was the only smarty that could predict the future.

The-Great-Jebus · 7 months

I don't understand how people thought ' I THOUGHT I WAS THE ONLY ONE!"

I mean.. common..

ExplosivePasta · 7 months

And people told me I was crazy, who is crazy now!

no_springs · 7 months

You're supposed to pretend you don't notice, so you can pretend you're surprised when it moves. Scooby Doo Enjoyment 101.

IrregardlessYourRong · 7 months

I thought I was so smart as a kid for realizing this. I would always tell my younger brother what was about to move and he was convinced I had superpowers.

caseyjhol · 7 months

*every time

swiftwidget · 7 months

Did anyone else love trying to find the temporary animation flaws? For instance, during one of the scuba diving scenes in "A Clue for Scooby Doo" Shaggy's hair is blonde and switched back to brown after a moment. I loved spotting those.

JoeRubbo · 7 months

Same with a lot of video games.

someguy73 · 7 months

It's kind of funny. In one of the special features for the anime Blue Seed, they make fun of this. "I know this drawer will be the one that we open because it's easier to animate".

BobbyD84 · 7 months

Many video games also fell victim to this.

bobsaget17 · 7 months

FINALLY SOMEONE UNDERSTANDS! I explained this to one of my roommates who refused to believe me yet I would tell him what object would move before it happened.

shoreleavewristwatch · 7 months

Here's the TV Tropes entry, if anyone's interested http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ConspicuouslyLightPatch

schavira · 7 months

TIL A good percentage of adults don't know how basic traditional animation works

Muffinabus · 7 months

I thought I was a very clever child until Reddit.

Vtbigbear · 7 months

Just like I "know" those barrels will have some cabbages or apples or potatoes in them.

char466 · 7 months

When I saw this I instinctively stood up and shook my fist at the screen and shouted "YES! YES! YES! YES!" I don't know why, but it seemed right.

Cobruh · 7 months

I THOUGHT I WAS THE ONLY ONE THAT KNEW THIS SECRET

Viking_Lordbeast · 7 months

I could always tell which book they were going to pick up off the bookshelf.

letor · 7 months

You must've been some kind of visual effects prodigy

Skamberin · 7 months

Because: Backgrounds don't move so adding a higher level of detail to light, shadow,texture and colour is alright. Doing the same for objects that animate on about 25-30 frames a second: NIGHTMARE. You don't even see this in 90 minute long Disney Feature films or Miyazakis greater movies.

If the actual animated parts of 2D animations were to take into considerations all the various types of light and shadow prevalent, 1 frame would probably take several hours. (this is why 3D is excellent, yay.)

luckyjinxer · 7 months

Because of multiplane animation. It was, when filmed, in front of the background and painted on a separate plane. This way they didn't have to repaint the background for every frame of animation, saving a lot of time, and allowing serialized cartoons, like Scooby Doo, economically feasible. Walt Disney actually came up with inovations in this technique.

SundanceOdyssey · 7 months

I used to call out the movement of the items before it happened whenever watching Scooby-Doo with my cousins. They thought I was brilliant.

Jesus_luvs_Jenkem · 7 months

What's even crazier is I knew what this post would be about before I clicked the link. You need new material, reddit.

meandthebean · 7 months

I remember seeing ahead of time exactly which wood plank in the porch Tom was going to use to smack Jerry in the face.

Sepoohroth · 7 months

for the longest time I thought I was the only one who realized this!

HashBR · 7 months

Meanwhile in Dragon Ball Z: Translation: We can always know... Which Rock will be destroyed next

kevonicus · 7 months

I always remember knowing where the gummy bears secret entrances were in the show because of this.

JDotFooks · 7 months

Too good.

Shoveldirt · 7 months

eatmyshit · 7 months

Careful! that differently colored rock is going to come loose and you'll fall!

Prof_Doom · 7 months

It's the same way you just knew in Resident Evil on PS1 or any other game with prerendered backgrounds like FFVII. Even more so on PC where the polygon models could be at least twice the resolution of the background.

Teekoo · 7 months

This was in 9gag 15 hours ago.

DarwinDanger · 7 months

Yep.

hawkyyy · 7 months

I love reddit for things like this, i used to think this all the time!

Illementary · 7 months

due to the revolutionary split vertical screen thingy that Walt Disney helped to produce

ORDEAL · 7 months

I thought I was so fucking smart.

I mean yeah I guess I was for a 7 year old

[deleted] · 7 months

Hey Arnold was the same way. All the stuff that moved was brighter.

rhydonmydiglett · 7 months

Admittedly, it's not like they're going to just draw a motionless barrel in center frame, you don't have to draw on years of cartoon watching to figure this one out.

Klaent · 7 months

Deja vu or...

Organs · 7 months

Amen to that.

iwizontires · 7 months

I believe this is related to how they let you know where to bomb things in the zelda series

jostler57 · 7 months

And the very best old cartoon is Popeye.

The greatest litterbug protagonist the world has ever known.

Mannex · 7 months

the best is the one drawer out of a whole dresser

secretvictory · 7 months

Oddly, this cartoon of Japanese origin taught me that trick. I distinctly remember a drawer being light than the dresser. It also had a penguin who experimented with anorexia, I believe.

Also, I am a Mexican American, I don't know why I remember this so vividly. Also, the nuzzles for the victory.

krevency · 7 months

I remember an episode of X-Men with a bunch of boulders, and I think that the one Rogue was going to lift up was lighter.

kyrodes · 7 months

That is a poor example. You can use a stack of rocks instead.

tesla3327 · 7 months

My favorite: When someone was looking for a book on a library shelf, and you knew exactly which one they were going to grab

bigmeech · 7 months

wow you were just a little precocious wonder, weren't you?

GMLiddell · 7 months

Everytime is properly written as two separate words.

tehkingo · 7 months

This is how I knew when a particular section of a mountain was about to be blown up in Dragonball Z...

TvTropes · 7 months

Conspicuously Light Patch

RegaliaMix · 7 months

I've seen this before somewhere... oh yeah 4chan.

marcel87 · 7 months

I've always noticed that. I saw it several times watching Princess Monononoke for the first time last night.

Gaudy_Monstrosity · 7 months

As an adult, I can still notice this.

shlomo_baggins · 7 months

It's not old cartoons, it's how things are animated. It's foreground vs background animation cells.

trithumbs · 7 months

Was I the only person hoping this was a Gif?

realityisoverrated · 7 months

I'm sure someone else has answered this, but...

The reason is that the objects that are to be animated are on the foreground cell instead of the background matte. The background matte is usually painted in a dull, subdued way in order to draw more attention to the foreground anyway... which is usually great; however, this happening to objects that are otherwise in the background is the unfortunate, occasional result.

Talby1 · 7 months

THIS IS FUNNY.

duoizumi · 7 months

I had this exact conversation at a Gamestop yesterday.

Robo-Erotica · 7 months

The Simpsons solved that problem by making everything simplistic in detail

speensar · 7 months

Especially obvious on bookshelves.

EHliEN · 7 months

Whenever I saw a tree with one branch a slightly darker colour than the others I knew it was going to break.

hatguyfromXKCD · 7 months

That or you're watching Metal Gear Solid?

Liltrom1 · 7 months

I'm pretty sure it's because they had to draw some things and use animation on others. Like the stuff stacked in the background is just drawn and needs no animation. I think...

tim67 · 7 months

FUCKING FUCK YES

Jrrj15 · 7 months

Funny. I was considering posting something about this. I remember when I was little watching Flintstones or Jetsons... "MOM LOOK! THAT BOX IS COLORED DIFFERENTLY SO IT'S GOING TO MOVE!"

EwokSlayer · 7 months

I remember rugrats doing this a lot.

warowords · 7 months

Yup. I tried explaining this phenomenon to my little brother back in the day but he just couldn't see what I was talking about. So frustrating for a 7 year old.

Bl00mp · 7 months

No one ever knew what I was talking about when I tried explaining this!

Poseidon256 · 7 months

holy shit i tried to explain this to my mom once when i was a little and she didnt get it. i thought i was fucking insane.

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