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* Other anime include ''[[Kaiji]]'' and ''[[Akagi]]'' both the works of Nobuyuki Fukumoto and both animated by Madhouse.
* Other anime include ''[[Kaiji]]'' and ''[[Akagi]]'' both the works of Nobuyuki Fukumoto and both animated by Madhouse.
* The western animation-like anime ''[[Panty & Stocking with Garterbelt|Panty and Stocking With Garterbelt]]'' by Gainax
* The western animation-like anime ''[[Panty & Stocking with Garterbelt|Panty and Stocking With Garterbelt]]'' by Gainax
* ''[[Fullmetal Alchemist]]'' has done a couple [[Art Shift|Art Shifts]] to this type of style for some comical moments.
* ''[[Fullmetal Alchemist]]'' has done a couple [[Art Shift]]s to this type of style for some comical moments.
* ''[[Koe de Oshigoto!]]!'' uses this as an artistic direction; it's used to emulate the look of [[Eroge]] CG's.
* ''[[Koe de Oshigoto!]]!'' uses this as an artistic direction; it's used to emulate the look of [[Eroge]] CG's.
* Appears in episode 7 of the ''[[Katanagatari]]'' anime.
* Appears in episode 7 of the ''[[Katanagatari]]'' anime.
* Some episodes of ''[[Digimon Savers]]'' animate the child-level [[Mons]] in this style, particularly in the series' tail end. It's very inconsistently done and is probably a product of the [[Off-Model]] [[Art Shift|Art Shifts]] which plague the series.
* Some episodes of ''[[Digimon Savers]]'' animate the child-level [[Mons]] in this style, particularly in the series' tail end. It's very inconsistently done and is probably a product of the [[Off-Model]] [[Art Shift]]s which plague the series.


== Film ==
== Film ==

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Clearly not a lineart to be trifled with.


Animation style characterized by visible heavy black borders around characters and objects. This style began being used by a few animation companies in the early 1950s (mostly UPA, of Gerald McBoingBoing and Mr. Magoo fame), and became dominant in American TV animation during the 60's and 70's, eclipsing the more naturalistic style used in most animation during earlier decades. It was phased out during the early 80s, when more naturalistic styles again became dominant in American animation, but then became the standard yet again (on television at least) during the late 90s, and so it remains to this day. Shows animated in Flash tend to look good in this style.

This is sometimes considered to be among the most defining traits of modern day American animation, mostly when contrasted with the similar "Anime=big eyes" notion to emphasize the differences between U.S. and Japanese animation.

Compare and contrast Limited Animation, Web Animation, Super-Deformed.

Examples of Thick Line Animation include:


Anime and Manga

Film

Web Animation

Western Animation - Television

Video Games

Inversions

Commercials

  • Esurance insurance commercials.

Web Comics

  • Ditto for later installments of the webcomic Mac Hall.
  • Faye's flashbacks in Questionable Content.
  • The entire run of Garanos.
  • Cast of Homestuck is normally represented by chibi-like "sprites" with outline, but lose it and gain normal human proportions when in Hero Mode.

Western Animation - Television

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