ElfGrove

The creator of Ren and Stimpy is complaining about other art styles when his has always been excessively grotesque? Umm...okay. Just because other studios quickly learned that a character has to look appealing to even be watched (and possibly believed as a 'hero' character) and he didn't doesn't mean it's bad to make appealing characters... I never thought any of the human characters looked liked they'd been reused from one movie to the next - barring sequels of course, but perhaps one needs a better eye to notice such things... (The animals, however, look like they suffer from being designed by the same artist. Gasp! Horrors! Seriously, the only character that had a familiar look to me in the Tangled trailer was the horse. It looks like it was designed by the same artist who designed Bolt.)

I agree, a trope used well is not a bad thing. In fact, familiar stories tend to do well. Movies like Star Wars and The Lion King used the tried and true formula of an unlikely hero rising up to confront and overthrow the greatest evil, thus restoring peace. Avatar is a well worn story concept as well, and I doubt I need to go into how many other movies used its plot before it did. People can easily get into a story that has a familiar feel. Heck, why else would stories from the Bible, Greek mythology and the like continue to do so well even now, especially when repacked and retold?

I ought to check the article out, but I think I'll wait until my brain's shut down for the evening. I'm not sure I want to deal with the pain just yet.