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{{quote|''"I wish the art was good throughout the whole series, not just in the final episode."''
''"These days, anime has [[Animation Bump|good art]] in the first and last episodes, never in the middle."''
''"That's not something you can just [[Enhanced on DVD|fix for DVD release]]."''
|'''A bunch of ninjas''' in the final episode of ''[[Ninja Nonsense]]''.}}
Animation is expensive. ''Really'' expensive. An average 22-minute episode of an anime costs around $123,000, when American shows tend to be about $300,000.<ref>It should be noted that most of this is not spent on the actual animation (depending on the show, some shows will have a separate budget just for the animation, like with Disney's and [[Warner Bros]]' works in the 80's and 90's), however. Considering it's done overseas (mostly for western shows), for the most part.</ref>
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Fans are typically not pleased, and it is very common for companies to announce they're [[Enhanced on DVD|fixing up things for the inevitable DVD release]].
However, [[Tropes Are Not Bad]]. Cartoonist [[John Kricfalusi]] has repeatedly stated that "staying on model is only for wimps and communists", or more subtly, if you don't break the character's model to emphasize some emotions, it'd be just as good done live action. Squash and stretch can be considered off-model, but it is one of [[The Twelve Principles of Animation]]. The result of staying true to off-model animation is [https://web.archive.org/web/20131009233701/http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iR6KjNmN2BA fantastic]
See also [[Uncanny Valley]] and [[Deranged Animation]]. Contrast [[Animation Bump]], where the animation is suddenly much ''better'' made than usual. Compare [[Special Effect Failure]], a similar trope, but with live action (and with animation that mixes more than one form of it). For animation studios that screw up constantly unintentionally, see [[AKOM]], [[Studio DEEN]], [[Dong Woo Animation]], [[Studio Shaft]], [[Sunrise (company)|Sunrise]], [[Actas]], [[Tokyo Kids]],<ref>or at lest when the studio is outsourcing for TMS</ref> and [[Toei Animation]] (mainly their unit the [[The Philippines]]).<ref>unlike the others listed, they still have a reasonable fanbase</ref> For a studio whose supporters and critics often argue about whether their animation is this, see [[Kennedy Cartoons]].
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* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SqpJqq9U_ZA Every single one of the Pakistan Happy Meal ads]. All of the [[Sonic the Hedgehog|Sonic]] characters are missing defining traits and ending up looking butt-ugly, [[Crash Bandicoot|Neo Cortex]] looking like a creepy terrorist (and missing the N on his forehead), [[Hello Kitty]] looking fat and '''having a mouth''', and so on.
** And then notice how the [[McDonald's]] mascots keep changing their looks throughout each commercial.
* The USA commercial for ''[[Rayman|Rayman 3: Hoodlum Havoc]]'' has an off-model CGI model of Rayman, with a very oddly-shaped torso and inaccurate eyes. ([http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zfVml9m5hFA View the commercial in HD here].) [
* This commercial for [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xdwB6LikUes a Korean Nintendo ad]. Not only does it manage to make this the video game commercial equivalent of [[Cartoon All-Stars to the Rescue]], the animation studio ([[Dai Won]]) manages to screw up [[Street Fighter|Ryu, Chun-Li]], [[Super Mario Brothers|Bowser]], [[Dragon Ball|Krillin, Goku]], [[Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 1987|Raphael]]... Pretty much everyone except Mario and Buster.
* As if the show, comics and toys were not enough, the commercials of Transformers G1 also end up falling into this trope. Two in particular stand out; [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b9-7RjhFzpM the very first one], using entirely different models for The Ark, Megatron and the Seekers. And [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8OEEncGeu8s this one], which truly showcases how much of an [[Expy]] [[Super Dimension Fortress Macross|Jetfire]] was. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IGj8B5xNEno&#t=0m29s This Chile commercial] also contains a grutatious amount of this trope, though this is because neither Toei or AKOM provided the animation.
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** An Italian ad gave Yellow a set of teeth.
== Anime and Manga ==▼
▲== Anime ==
* A lot of well-animated anime (or individual high-budget episodes of otherwise cheap shows) tends to feature looser artwork than usual, as a way to show off the style of each individual animator and give the scene more of a "soul", so to speak. These inconsistencies as a result of animation directors treating individual animators as artists as opposed to mere cogs in a machine is often seen as "low quality" or a "lack of budget" by anime fans, who tend to value detail-per-frame and consistency above all else. A lot of "notoriously bad" episodes are actually the impressive work of an above-average good staff.
* ''[[Spirited Away]]'' features this intentionally, as the proportions of Yubaba's head continually change depending on the mood of the scene. Miyazaki has said being able to go intentionally off-model is one of the things that appeals to him about traditional animation over CGI.
** Likewise, ''[[
* The anime of ''[[Ginga Densetsu Weed]]'' is practically ''legendary'' for this among the fandom. [https://web.archive.org/web/20120730160131/http://www.gingasite.net/ginga_board/index.php?showtopic=27 Here] is forum topic centered around posting these so-called "bombs". It should say something that the thing is ''over a hundred pages long''.
* The [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=48T5fZJpXmk car chase scene] in episode 7 of ''[[Shinkyoku Soukai Polyphonica]]'' (which spawned its own meme, being dubbed the "QUALITY VAN") is one of the most infamous bits of Off Model in anime. Note the inflatable pool toy on the roof of the car that can't decide whether it wants to be a shark, a dolphin, or a different shark. Window's broken, now it's fixed, now it's broken again...now there's ''two''?!
* ''[[Gravion]]'' character Mizuki Tachibana had her breasts drawn in such a way in the second season (during a moment of upper body nudity) they not only looked impossibly large, even by [[Gag Boobs]] standards, but they didn't even look naturally attached to her chest, and this was particularly obvious during a brief [[Gainaxing]] animation in the same scene.
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** The team responsible for the major fight in the Valley of the End has wildly inconsistent character design. What is lost is gained in the fact that their animation makes for some of the fastest, most fluid fights in the series.
** A good example of Off-Model animation in the anime version of Naruto and Sasuke fight at Valley Of The End has to be the face Sasuke makes when Naruto hits him in one scene as well as that one scene where Naruto's clones act as missiles. Notice how stretched out and fishlike their faces are.
** The ''manga'' has one major example in chapter 430, where the artist had to submit the chapter when some pages had ''[https://web.archive.org/web/20131123115511/http://read.mangashare.com/Naruto/chapter-430/page008.html a full stage of the drawing process left]'' to keep up with his schedule. Thankfully, this was cleaned up for the volume release.
** The Pain Invasion arc is nearing its end at episode 167. Episode 167 is by far the best combined example of [[Animation Bump]] and Off-Model (because the animation style used is meant for extremely fluid motion, which helps in the fight scenes it's used in) the series has ever seen.
** Also noteworthy was the unnaturally-drawn style of Hinata's hair- a surreal neon blue with foggy highlights (as opposed to clear white), and her [[Hime Cut]] seemed to be one big chunk with no visible lines distinguishing the individual hairs, as though it was the plastic-molded hair of a cheap action figure.
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** Mugen's sword would change in length, width, and curvature, sometimes it'd almost be a [[BFS]], other times it'd look like a scimitar.
** ''[[Ergo Proxy]]'', also a Studio [[Manglobe]] project, suffers from this same problem.
* ''[[
** Incidentally, the entire second half of episode 9 was animated in a different art style from the rest of the show (Compare Shinobu's eyes, chin, and hair from the first half). Incidentally, the artwork was actually somewhat ''better''. It might have been done to simply see if anyone noticed.
* ''[[Nadia: The Secret of Blue Water|Nadia]]'''s infamous "Island/Africa" arc resulted from a decision to extend the show. Like most filler, it fell victim to a slipping animation budget and rather bizarre "cartoony" visuals in [[Mushroom Samba|certain episodes.]]
* ''[[Mahou Sensei Negima]]'''s chances for a second season were crushed by Off-Model Episodes occurring way too early in the show for viewer tolerance. The closest we got was ''Negima!?'', which turned out better (art-wise) anyway.
** Sadly, after the success of the Ala Alba OVAs, the animation (and quality in general) went severely downhill in the second ''Mo Hitotsu No Sekai'' OVA. The third one was definitely better.
** For examples see [https://web.archive.org/web/20140913010232/http://bluemist.animeblogger.net/archives/negima-sakuga-tracker-asuna-version/
* The entirety of episode 19 of the anime ''[[
* The DVD sales for the second season of [[Minami-ke]] got cut in half by the power of QUALITY among other things.
* ''[[Dragonball Z]]'' had extremely varied animation quality. During the Saiyan Saga and most of the Frieza Saga, animation was high quality up until around the point Goku goes Super Saiyan. After that the animation style and quality begins to vary significantly and is most noticeable during closeups of Trunks upon his first arrival and throughout most of the Cell Saga. The quality of animation continued to vary throughout the the rest of the series (going from pretty bad to very good) but was less varied in the Buu Saga and ''[[Dragon Ball GT]]''.
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** [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ieQDLa8pxMg The opening for Dragon Ball Kai somehow manages to forget the spots that appear on Krilin's forehead 22-27 seconds in] Also, since this is the third opening, the same mistake happens again towards the end. Some [[Sarcasm Mode|animation upgrade huh Toei?]]
* The first ''[[Hellsing (anime)|Hellsing]]'' TV series was notorious for this. Despite only being 13 episodes long, any episode that wasn't an excuse for awesome vampire battles was done pretty shoddily.
* Only the first episode of ''[[Yoake Mae Yori Ruriiro na
* The Greed Island Final [[OVA]] of ''[[Hunter X Hunter]]'' is noticeably Off Model, with lots of still frames and scaling of static "sprites" replacing actual animation.
* ''[[Moetan]]'' lampshades this in its first episode's ending segment, when Pastel Ink teaches the viewer how to say "[[Surprisingly Good English|It's great that the animation staff go all out with the quality of an anime's first episode.]]"
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* ''[[Samurai 7]]'' used a blatantly intentional [[Art Shift]] in its seventh episode, which [[Fan Dumb|some fans]] assumed was a mistake or the result of budget issues.
* The original television broadcast of episode 5 of ''[[Katekyo Hitman Reborn]]'' is particularly infamous within the fandom for its Off-Model animation, but later got cleaned up for the DVD release; [http://img204.imageshack.us/img204/2729/1186374205098or0.jpg this] image, while technically a shop, depicts just ''one'' of the memorable goofs. It even [http://target5.is-mine.net/ gained a Japanese fanlisting]!
** There's no way, Hibari Kyoya [https://web.archive.org/web/20120113084319/http://manga.animea.net/kateikyoushi-hitman-reborn--chapter-320-page-3.html can make a face like this!]. see lower left panel.
* ''[[Rozen Maiden]]'' suffered briefly from this in the eleventh episode of the first season. In one shot, Suigintou was depicted with six fingers, though this was fixed for the DVD release.
* ''[[Sonic X]]'' must have had seventeen different art styles in this show. While it was easily noticeable early on that artwork in episodes differed from one another drastically, as the series progressed the characters became increasingly hideous and repulsive.
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* The one-shot "sequel" chapter of ''[[Death Note]]'' looks noticeably different from the original manga, and often a bit sloppier. It's worth noting, however, that Takeshi Obata apparently may not have had a part in this.
** The anime adaptation had its fair share of QUALITY when it came time to adapt the second arc, though some examples were present in earlier episodes (with Misa being a notorious one). It seems that besides cutting the story up for anime format, [[They Just Didn't Care]] about how characters looked in some episodes. Misa and Mello were both hit badly with this, and Mogi and Aizawa even had their ENTIRE FACES disappear in a scene.
* ''[[Weiss Kreuz]]'' suffered terribly from Off-Model animation.<ref>This is the result of having a series co-produced by [[
* ''[[Fate/stay night]]'' is generally a very good-looking show, but the animation takes a hit in a few episodes, such as the final confrontation with Caster. And no discussion of "off-model" in the context of anime is complete without [
* In the ''[[Lucky Star]]'' OP, when the four girls are talking and all you see is their legs, the normally [[Older Than They Look|significantly shorter]] (by half a foot) Konata has legs that are the same length as the other girls'. This has been spun off into at least one piece of fanart showing the full scene... where [[Scully Box|Konata is standing on a crate]]. [https://web.archive.org/web/20210905215815/http://img.imgcake.com/
* More than a few scenes in the [[Black★Rock Shooter (band)|Black★Rock Shooter]] OVA suffer from missing details, misshapen faces and stubby limbs being common symptoms.
* In ''[[Tokyo Mew Mew]]'', the ending theme had a problem with Minto's height. This is fixed starting episode 12.
** The animators also have a continuous problem of forgetting that Ichigo's garter is on her right leg and everyone else's garters are on their left.
* ''[[Lost Universe]]'' episode 4, ''Yashigani Hofuru'' (Coconut Crab Massacre) had lots of problems in its original TV broadcast version, including off-model characters, extremely slow frame rates, and ridiculously unrealistic motion. In [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C3Gw_L7BbEE this scene], for example, Canal points to a blank screen (which isn't supposed to be blank), then repeatedly disappears and reappears on the opposite side of the room. Also, in [https://web.archive.org/web/20111211185955/http://www.japanator.com/elephant/post.phtml?pk=7216 this screen shot], Millie's thumb is turned at an impossible angle to her other fingers. This led to "yashigani" becoming a nickname for bad animation.
* ''[[Welcome to The NHK]]'' suffers from this in places.
* The entire thirteenth episode of ''[[The Third: The Girl with the Blue Eye]]'' is incredibly poorly animated compared to the fairly high quality of every other episode.
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* The ''[[Higurashi no Naku Koro ni|Higurashi]]'' anime often suffers from off-model. For one, the characters' heads always seem too large in comparison to their bodies. The second season fixes a lot of the mistakes of the first season, but towards the end of the season you can clearly see mistakes (though, in the final episode there aren't many). The third season is on-model, but it ''is'' just five [[OVA]]s. However, there are some errors in the OVA's. The most noticeable is that Mion is missing her tattoo in the first one.
** Some episodes, like 26 of the original series, featured intentionally ugly, psychotic facial drawings and animation courtesy of popular animator Seiya Numata which, like most popular examples of "bad animation" in anime, were mistaken for animation errors due to their loose nature despite the fact that [[Fan Dumb|they were completely fitting within the context in which they were used]] (literally characters going insane).
** The ''[[Umineko:
** The Umineko manga also has some really strange artwork in places.
* ''[[Mai-Otome]]'' had some QUALITY issues starting with episode 10, where some characters' faces would be drawn out of alignment (particularly noticeable during Shizuru's battle against Midori, and especially bad in one scene during episode 16, where one minor character's facial features are almost non-existent). Episode 20 (the one with the {{spoiler|Tomoe/Shizuru bedroom kiss}}) was a mess across the board, though some of the issues were fixed for the DVD releases.
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** [http://images.puella-magi.net/0/0f/Six-fingered_Homura.jpg On a more serious example...]
* Parodied in a segment on ''[[Liquid Television]]'': A [[Humongous Mecha]] team is sent a memo stating that overspending on missiles means they must cut corners by looking away from the camera when they speak.
* [http://www.fukung.net/v/35955/0c186578c4e27f782abeb94f03412902.gif A right leg turning into a left leg.]{{Dead link}}
* ''[[Wandering Son]]'' typically has good design, however sometimes the mangaka slips up. In a few volume 12 chapters, Maho was rather off-model (especially her hair, which for some reason is black underneath). Nitori is sometimes portrayed as being too lanky, and other slight anatomical errors.
* ''[[Soul Eater]]'' [http://i960.photobucket.com/albums/ae84/WolfPawDragonClaw/THEHORROR.jpg?t=1301168166 has these sideviews.] The length of their snouts change.
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* Like most [[Toei Animation]] long-running series, ''[[Digimon]]'' has a bit of a problem with this trope. The extent varies drastically depending on the series in question; ''[[Digimon Savers]]'' is the most notorious for it, with wildly different art styles, the Digimon regularly but not consistently depicted with thicker outlines, and with the girls literally spontaneously [[Gag Boobs|going up a few cup sizes]] in some of the worst-animated episodes. Also, ''[[Digimon Tamers]]'' has the misfortune of having been whacked with the Off-Model hammer for its final episode, resulting in Dukemon in particular having some pretty ridiculous proportions at times in what otherwise is a fantastic climax.
** And in ''[[Digimon Xros Wars]]'', by the time of the Death Generals arc, they start combining this with [[Art Shift]]. It's so bad it hurts to watch.
* ''[[Pandora Hearts]]'' suffers terribly from this affliction in the anime. There are so many instances of this happening that [https://web.archive.org/web/20130921190248/http://pandora-derps.tumblr.com/ there is an entire blog devoted to it.]
* ''[[Persona 4]]: The Animation'' is of generally good quality, except where background characters not meant to be viewed closely are concerned. In one case, Yosuke's entire face is drawn very badly; in another Chie is in the background making a face that looks to be taken directly from Hiimdaisy's famous parody comic.
** Near the end of episode 13 during the summer vacation watermelon eating scene, look at Chie. She's sitting outside on the deck with Nanako and the Protagonist... [http://29.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lxcjyaNvrz1qlo9bgo1_500.png and she's sitting inside next to Rise.]
* [[Mawaru Penguindrum]]'s [http://pingroup.glittering-crux.net/Episode_10_Screenshots episode 10]{{Dead link}} (the one where {{spoiler|Shouma is at the hospital and later is kidnapped by Masako}}) is ''infamous'' for its horrible animation. A certain shot of [http://i53.tinypic.com/11l0rk7.jpg Shouma's face] is... [[Memetic Mutation|particularly popular.]]
** Episode 19 is so badly animated that the scene where {{spoiler|Masako confronts and verbally bitchslaps Himari}} [[Narm|ends up totally ruined]] due to how HUGE and shiny their [[Forehead of Doom|foreheads]] are.
* ''[[Rinne no Lagrange]]'' is usually consistent, but in Episode 7 someone's recently coffee-stained collar magically becomes clean for about half a second. Amazingly, it happens during a shot where you can't see much besides coffee-stain-guy's head and shoulders, and a background character pops into existence in the middle of the screen during a pan-back a few seconds later...it seems like they completely forgot to QUALITY-check that scene.
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* In the ''[[Berserk]]'' anime during the infamous scene in the Eclipse where Femto appears before Guts and {{spoiler|rapes Casca}} you see Guts pupils briefly being out of sync with one another.
** Also, when a bunch of demons approach Casca after {{spoiler|Judeau dies}} we see her pupils also go out of sync.
* As much as the series had its fair share of errors; the ''[[You're Under Arrest]]'' manga
== Comic Books ==
* Artists Randy Elliott and Stuart Sayger received much criticism for their work on [[LEGO]]'s ''[[Bionicle]]'' comics. Randy notoriously drew humongous shoulders on many of his characters, sometimes gave them very small and thin heads, and in the case of two of the Toa Metru gave them obscuring visors instead of bothering to draw their eyes (which weren't even the right colours). Sayger, on the other hand, practiced a unique, sketchy style which—while probably very serviceable in any other work—simply did not work well with the types of intricate character designs present in ''BIONICLE''. He proportioned the characters in so many different ways that a whole Off-Model gallery could be filled with them. And in one instance, he literally used the wrong model for a certain character—instead of Mata Nui's correct, originally planet-sized, bulky and blocky robot body, he drew the mortal form that he took on one hundred thousand years later, which (apart from also being a humanoid) looked absolutely nothing like his former body.
** There's also a panel in the last 2008 comic (drawn by a different artist, Leigh Gallagher, whose work is far more well-regarded) in which Turaga Dume is drawn based on his design from the second movie, whereas everyone else is modeled after their toys. This would have been acceptable (because it was really well-drawn) if Elliott hadn't drawn Dume based on his toy back in 2004 (incidentally, that too was also off-model in that it wasn't even the right colour).
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* At one point in Volume 9 of ''[[The Walking Dead]]'', Rick's hand somehow magically grows back.
* Poor, poor Bart Allen. After he became [[The Flash|Kid Flash]], a lot of people started coloring his hair red, like he was Wally, despite one of his main physical traits being that huge poofy brown practically-a-non-curly-afro on his head.
▲* As much as the series had its fair share of errors; the ''[[You're Under Arrest]]'' manga (listed here due to being [[Executive Meddling|partially]] released in comic book form in America) slipped up on a few occasions.<ref>There's plenty intentional ones for many reasons, Facefaults mostly</ref> While the art was, thankfully, much more consistent. [http://www.majhost.com/gallery/philipnova/Philipnova798/img.jpg These] [http://www.majhost.com/gallery/philipnova/Philipnova798/img_0001.jpg two] examples stand out (Note that the watch present in the first example only appears in that one panel it's in).
* [http://amomentofarchiesonic.tumblr.com/ A Moment of Archie Sonic] is a [[Tumblr]] site devoted to showcasing Off Model shots in [[Sonic the Hedgehog (comics)|Archie's Sonic]].
** For a time, ''Sonic the Hedgehog'' took [[Depending on the Artist]] to such extremes that there's a rumor going around that until recently the comic's quality control was turned off to speed up production - though with panels like [https://web.archive.org/web/20140727130033/http://amomentofarchiesonic.tumblr.com/post/15880298049/i-really-really-cant-decide-if-i-like-his-broken this] going from pencils to printing apparently without comment, it's hard to tell whether it's true or not.
== Documentaries ==▼
* Many of the creatures in ''[[Walking with Dinosaurs]]'' and its kin go through some drastic changes in appearance when the shot switches from a [[CGI]] animal to a puppet or an animatronic, or vice versa. The ones that stand out the most are the ''Postosuchus'' with its rubbery head; the freakish closeups of a ''Leaellynasaura'' puppet whose jaw slipped to the side; the ''Smilodon'' who seemingly can't open/close their mouth; and the ''Megaloceros'' that, upon dying, looks like it instantly became some huge stuffed animal toy. Then, there's that insect that goes from being a CGI ant to a live cricket.▼
** Pure CGI goofs include: The 3 year-old indricothere calf that still uses its newborn animation model, even though an other, same-aged indricothere already looked like an adult; and (though this could be intentional) the ''Allosaurus'' at the end of ''Walking with Monsters'' who is at first represented by the allosaur model from the 2001 TV adaptation of ''[[The Lost World]]'' (okay...), but then suddenly becomes a true ''Walking with...''-brand ''Allosaurus'' (phew, that's better). As for various other off-model moments, freeze-framing reveals the animals tend to get heavily distorted during particularly fast movements.▼
== Film -- Animated ==
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* Just about every single Disney deleted scene ever made (with the sole exception being the [[Horny Vikings|"Viking prologue"]] from ''[[Atlantis: The Lost Empire]]'', for obvious reasons) will all inevitably suffer from this.
** Speaking of ''Atlantis'', pay very close attention to Kida's bracelet. When she loses it at the very beginning of the film as a result of her mother the Queen pulling it off her wrist so that the Crystal can sacrifice her, the beads are arranged as pink, blue, pink. When she finally retrieves it at the end of the film shortly after saving Atlantis from a lava flow and transforming back from her crystalline form, the beads on her bracelet are now arranged as blue, pink, blue (similar to the feathers attached to the backs of the tiaras worn by the queens). Also, during the finale the patterns on [[The High Queen|Kida's]] dress actually shift just right after the stone face representing her late father flies away in the sky, and the sash hanging down from the front of her dress mysteriously vanishes shortly afterward.
* [http://i.imgur.com/7Sy8k.jpg This] shot from ''[[Aladdin (Disney film)|Aladdin]]'' managed to spawn a Tumblr meme around this trope as it applies to Disney films. (Look up "[https://web.archive.org/web/20120809151550/http://www.tumblr.com/tagged/didney+worl DIDNEY WORL]".)
* ''[[The Secret of NIMH]] 2: Timmy to the Rescue'' features a scene where Timmy hugs his mother in a way that would only work if Mrs. Brisby's neck had the ability to be stretched back while her head and body stayed in the same place.
* ''[[An American Tail]]'', of all places, does this briefly during the scene where Fievel finds himself in a bottle. Right after Fievel sees a partially finished Statue of Liberty and before washing up on shore, he doesn't look much like himself and his fingers are bigger.
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* [[Mulan]] starts off being drawn with long eyelashes and thin eyebrows, but when she cuts her hair to complete her disguise as a male soldier so that she can join the war against the invading Huns, her eyelashes disappear and her eyebrows grow bigger. When Mulan changes back into more feminine-looking clothes for the final battle against [[Big Bad|Shan Yu]] in the Imperial Palace, her eyelashes grow back, but her eyebrows still remain huge and bushy.
▲=== Documentaries ===
▲* Many of the creatures in ''[[Walking with Dinosaurs]]'' and its kin go through some drastic changes in appearance when the shot switches from a [[CGI]] animal to a puppet or an animatronic, or vice versa. The ones that stand out the most are the ''Postosuchus'' with its rubbery head; the freakish closeups of a ''Leaellynasaura'' puppet whose jaw slipped to the side; the ''Smilodon'' who seemingly can't open/close their mouth; and the ''Megaloceros'' that, upon dying, looks like it instantly became some huge stuffed animal toy. Then, there's that insect that goes from being a CGI ant to a live cricket.
▲** Pure CGI goofs include: The 3 year-old indricothere calf that still uses its newborn animation model, even though an other, same-aged indricothere already looked like an adult; and (though this could be intentional) the ''Allosaurus'' at the end of ''Walking with Monsters'' who is at first represented by the allosaur model from the 2001 TV adaptation of ''[[The Lost World]]'' (okay...), but then suddenly becomes a true ''Walking with...''-brand ''Allosaurus'' (phew, that's better). As for various other off-model moments, freeze-framing reveals the animals tend to get heavily distorted during particularly fast movements.
== Film -- Live-Action ==
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** There's three major examples in Revenge of the Fallen - Towards the beginning during the Shanghai battle, Mudflap and Skids switch voice actors. During the Desert battle, Ironhide ejects his gun at one point and in another scene has it back on; and the CG Predator Drone doesn't look like anything like its real life counterpart; which also happened to be used in the film. These can also be considered [[Special Effects Failure]] or [[Did Not Do the Research]].
** A couple more occur in ''Dark of the Moon'' during the standoff between Ironhide, Sideswipe and The Dreads. In one shot after Ironhide drops his guns, his CG model depicts his back guns still attached, in all other shots in the scene, they're not present.
* [[The Asylum]], dear God The Asylum. They fall into this trope so much it's not funny. Mega Piranha, 100 Million BC and Transmorphers are quite possibly the worst cases from them. Which is a shame when you consider that Synapse FX (responsible for the effects in Transmorphers) actually made fairly detailed and complex models (roughly about as complex as Wheelie or Frenzy from the Transformers films) of [http://www.synapsefx.com/images/stories/vfx_gal/CG_Mech_Robot.jpg the titular robots (only one shown, but you get the drift)]{{Dead link}}.
* ''[[The Matrix]]'', specifically Reloaded. Watch the Burly Brawl scene. Most of the fight is CGI and if you can get a close enough look at Neo's face you can tell that it looks absolutely nothing like him. Though most people probably wouldn't see it the first few times they watched it.
* Occurs in ''[[The Black Scorpion]]'', whenever said scorpion gets a close up on its face. Making it look nothing like the stop-motion beast that [[King Kong|Willis O'Brien]] animated.
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* ''[[Jurassic Park]]'''s lead T-Rex has a slightly squarer jaw between the CG model and animatronic.
* In the first scene of the rock scorpion battle in the 2010 ''[[Clash of the Titans]]'' remake. Said rock scorpion's missing part of its tail.
== Literature ==
* The entire body of Toa Vakama on the [http://images.wikia.com/bionicle/images/f/f0/Adventures-4.jpg cover image] of the ''[[Bionicle]]'' movie adaptation novel, ''Legends of Metru Nui'', is seriously disfigured, and the head is especially misshapen. Surprisingly, the two characters in the background are both perfectly on-model. As a comparison, [http://images.wikia.com/bionicle/images/5/50/BIONICLE_2_Lengends_of_Metru_Nui_cover.jpg here's] how he is meant to look, as seen on the movie's poster.
▲== Live Action TV ==
* In-Universe Example: During the "Into the Comics" serial of ''[[Ghostwriter (TV series)|Ghostwriter]]'', the gang is able to identify that the comic they are to analyze for contest clues is, in fact, a fake by noticing differences in the art-style from the previous installments.
* An odd example not involving artwork or animation: in the ''[[Doctor Who]]'' serial ''The Power of the Daleks'', the Dalek army is represented by [[Off-the-Shelf FX|Louis Marx toy Daleks]]. The problem was that Marx's Daleks [http://doctorwhotoys.net/marx_mysterious_dalek%20copy.jpg were a subtly wrong shape], which became more obvious when intercut with the three ''real'' Daleks.
* In season three of ''[[Mighty Morphin Power Rangers]]'', Titanus was reintroduced. Though as there was no footage of the character in the series footage was being taken from (''[[Ninja Sentai Kakuranger]]''), Saban used [[Off-the-Shelf FX|the toys of him, the Ninjazords and Shogunzords]] whenever featured. [[Special Effects Failure|Unfortunately, they never took into consideration that the Shogunzord used by the White Ranger in the original was repainted pink for America.]]<ref>It's explained in more detail on the [[Special Effects Failure]] page.</ref>
* [[Second Life]] avatars are frequently off-model, thanks to the long loading times for many sims.▼
== New Media ==
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** Unfortunately, some of that stuff still happened canonically. Vladimir seems to have been [[Killed Off for Real]]. Moira and Louie have been having some sort of light-switch relationship since then. So as long as we have plot coming out of that damn thing, there are going to be people who have to watch it for that material... unless, of course, Gaia has it remade as a manga in their usual art styles (hint, ''hint'', Gaia staff).
* ''[[Mad]]'' used to let several different artists draw the front cover, which almost always has mascot Alfred E. Neuman on it. Once, they let movie poster artist Drew Struzan do a cover, which turned out [http://madcoversite.com/mad379id.jpg nightmare-fuelingly] off-model. [[Sergio Aragones]]' two covers didn't fare much better.
== Newspaper Comics ==
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* In a couple of ''[[Pearls Before Swine]]'' strips, Rat's nose was much longer than usual.
** Pearls Before Swine also [http://www.gocomics.com/pearlsbeforeswine/2012/04/22 parodied this once], in which the colorist deliberately colored the last panel wrong to be an ass to Stephen Pastis.
== Toys ==
* The Fall Out Boy [https://web.archive.org/web/20191017082113/http://www.entertainmentearth.com/images/%5CAUTOIMAGES%5CPF01722Alg.jpg talking plushies] suffer from this. Ironically, they were made by SOTA Toys, which churned out the on-model [https://web.archive.org/web/20070419122316/http://www.actionfigureinsider.com/news/images/sota/SOTAFalloutBoy.jpg action figures] a while back. [https://web.archive.org/web/20160307202927/http://earsucker.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/01/pete_wentz_seamstress.jpg (Yes, Pete Wentz's face DOES work that way.)]
* ''[[Transformers Generation 1]]'' may have had a reputation of being this trope in both comics and cartoon, but it should also go with saying that the figures themselves are not immune due to their heritage of being from different lines:
** Ironhide and Ratchet for instance, have proper heads in all non-toy related material, but their original action figures don't. This is because the original figures were made in Japan for a different purpose- ''before'' the concept of Transformers came into play. Those figures were meant to be "armor" used by human pilots, but the idea was shelved when the toys were re-worked into transforming robots. In fact, there are even Bot-con and fan surrogate modifications that can be applied to these toys to give them actual heads.
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* Even though this was intentional, the characters in the first three ''Bionicle'' movies (touched upon above) look nothing like their original releases.
* Usually invoked with [[Everything's Better with Plushies|Plush toys]] due to their chibiness. Often shown with a lack of a nose or simplified eyes. Still played straight sometimes though.
== Video Games ==
* A lot of old [[Nintendo 64]] games had blocky, jagged, and akwardly disproportionate 3-D models of game characters that didn't match up with the offical art, a result of the primitive software. Such lacked the proper graphic and resolution potential used to sculpt the in-game builds. A few good examples:
** ''[[Super Mario 64]]''- One of the first games for N64, and the modeling was very rough for the characters. Mario's eyes were almost completely rectangular, and his mustache lacked the trademmark ruffles that give him originality. Likewise, Bowser suffers from an oversized head (maybe it's just the ego) and T-rex-size limbs. Princess Peach even looks as though her head is a bloated turnip. When the Nintendo DS remake came out, graphics were on par with the character designs.
** ''[[The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time]]'': Not as rampant as the earlier N64 games, but jarring in some places. Link's eyes are a touch too small in both child and adult forms, and the Master Sword is incorrectly designed with a fatter, shorter blade rather than the slim, rapier-like shape it ''should'' have. Certain enemies in the game also seem different from their artwork depictions. Notably, the Re-Dead, already frightening enough to make you whip out your brown pants, had circular holes for mouths and vague skeletal features on their bodies, instead of having teeth bared in a grimace and severely emaciated body parts. Worse are the Guay- you might mistake the birds for flying ''origami''. In the case of in-game collectibles, pieces of Heart lack beveled edges, along with many other item models being improperly designed. The Nintendo 3DS remake faithfully fixes all the errors, ''and'' even adds extra flair and detail to the graphics that turn them into [[Scenery Porn]]. Let's just say that you'll be gaping in awe at the detail of the final room of
* Infamously, ''[[The Legend of Zelda: Phantom Hourglass]]'', a sequel to ''Wind Waker'', gave the characters ''fingerless mittens'' for hands. The spiritual successor, ''Spirit Tracks'', would do a decent job correcting those hideous mistakes, but the "mittens" pop up every now and then in the game regardless.
* "Weegee", the off-model Luigi from ''[[Mario Is Missing]]''.
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* ''[[Asura's Wrath]]'': Episode 11.5 has tons of this (most of deeper lines of Asura's body look like paint and the rings on his back are made into circular protrusions, he bleeds and spits out [[Black Blood]], [[BFS|Wailing Dark]] starts off intact instead of being broken near the handle and isn't seen to extend before that, etc.) but since it's made into a crazy insane action packed episode, its very forgivable. Helps that's directed by a key animator from the team behind [[FLCL]].
** Avoided in episode 15.5, however, as the animation style stays much more consistent than 11.5's, although it's still somewhat obvious that the animations are based on earlier designs of the characters since the Dojis look a lot more human-like, the tips of Yasha's fingers aren't covered with rings and Deus uses a normal nunchaku instead of a more elaborate one with a beam of lightning as its chain.
* Burgerpants from ''[[Undertale]]'' is deliberately drawn off model for each one of his facial expressions
=== [[Massively Multiplayer Online Role Playing Game|MMORPGs]] ===
▲* [[Second Life]] avatars are frequently off-model, thanks to the long loading times for many sims.
==
* Parodied in ''[[Buttlord GT]]'':
{{quote|'''Snowflake:''' ''You fool!'' Do you realize what you have ''done??''
'''Takahashi:''' You started the fight scene! Now we're all going to be drawn by the... ''3rd String Backup Animation Team!!''
'''Glutes:''' My God, what have I ''done? AAAAAAAAA! WHAT THE FUCK IS HAPPENING TO MY BODY??'' }}
* Also parodied in [https://web.archive.org/web/20140118092429/http://www.badlydrawnkitties.com/OldComics/20040330_gif_view.htm one] [[Badly Drawn Kitties]] comic.
* In ''[[Homestuck]]'', no one really has any idea of how Aradia's [[Horned Humanoid|horns]] are supposed to work. If you look at "[S] Make Her Pay", they're all over the place. In his now defunct Formspring, [[Word of God|Word of Hussie]] claims this is partially intentional:
{{quote|A curly ram horn is actually a pretty complicated object. I draw fast and loose and a lot of times emphasize gesture and stylization over precision. If you're looking for rigid fidelity to a couple of loopy horns I am afraid you're barking up the wrong tree! They curl whatever way looks best for the scene.}}
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* A number of the ''[[Kevin and Kell]]'' Sunday strips appear to be colored completely differently from the dailies. In addition to the colors appeared noticeably flatter, many of the characters where the wrong colored outfits or in the case of Kell and Rudy, go from brownish-grey fur to bright beige. This has persisted to some of the book covers as well (such as Honeymoon 2.0).
* ''[[Misfile]]'' has a few instances, while most of these are in the earlier parts of the series. Some still tend to pop up, like these [http://www.misfile.com/index.php?page=1774 two] [http://www.misfile.com/index.php?page=1775 pages].<ref>For those wondering, look at Logan's hand.</ref>
== Web Original ==
* ''[[Neko Sugar Girls]]'' is basically a [[Stealth Parody]] of this trope. ''Everyone'' is off-model, and it's done to an extent (combined with [[Gratuitous Japanese]], hideously annoying voice acting, and nonexistent plot) that the whole video series is obviously a parody.
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* If it's not traced, then the animation in [[Elemental Goddess]] is this.
* In ''[[Pre Game Lobby]]'', a question about why the characters armor keep changing between scenes, with armor changing when the local Troll keeps asking when he's ever changed his armor. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=etzQ-HR_uVg&feature=PlayList&p=612EC0EB6808E6AD&index=11 Can be seen Here.]
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* The entire point of [http://dumbrunningsonic.tumblr.com/ Dumb Running Sonic], [[Exactly What It Says on the Tin|in which internet artists animate]] [[Sonic the Hedgehog]] [[Exactly What It Says on the Tin|doing an incredibly stupid walk cycle.]] [[Tropes Are Not Bad|The end results]] [[Crowning Moment of Funny|must be seen to be believed.]]
* Quasi-intentional in a few episodes of ''[[Extra Credits]]'': occasionally Allison Theus (the main artist) is unavailable that week, and they get another artist to draw it, who will usually have an entirely different style.
== Western Animation ==
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** Also, near the middle of an episode of Season 3, Ventress mysteriously loses her skirt after her ship has been damaged and retrieved by space pirates before hijacking their ship and flying to Dathomir. However, this was intentional, as the person animating Ventress found out that her skirt is just too diffucult to animate, and as a result this episode marked the last time Ventress will ever wear a skirt in her entire life.
* ''[[Jem]]'' had some extremely jarring examples. The best three: Pizazz's mouth moving to the wrong part of her face while she talked; the Misfits having a concert while wearing horizontally striped stockings, with inconsistent, shifting colors that made it appear they were wearing barber poles on their legs; and Eric Raymond appearing on TV as a talking head...with part of his head extending past the borders of the TV screen, Sadako style.
** [https://web.archive.org/web/20131128114822/http://jembloopers.beyondjem.com/ This site] lists some of the shows "bloopers".
* In a similar manner to the ''[[Ninin ga Shinobuden]]'' example, one episode of ''[[Taz-Mania]]'' has Axl & Bull going about their day, casually noting common animating mistakes and Off-Model situations.
* The Czech-produced ''[[Tom and Jerry]]'' cartoons directed by Gene Deitch are pretty surreal compared to the originals. This was parodied in ''[[The Simpsons]]'' episode "Krusty Gets Kancelled", when Krusty lost the license to show ''Itchy And Scratchy'' cartoons, and instead showed ''Worker & Parasite'', a surreal, poorly made Eastern Bloc knockoff.
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** In [[Non Sequitur Episode|The Mechanic,]] near the end, Batman's mouth suddenly wrenches open and his eyes dilate, going in opposite directions. This lasts a good second or two.
* The ''[[Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog]]'' series was prone to this, especially the "[[And Knowing Is Half the Battle|Sonic Sez]]" segments at the end of each episode.
** This may have been intentional, since Milton Knight, the character designer, gave instructions (for Robotnik, anyway) to be drawn [https://web.archive.org/web/20150106084854/http://www.miltonknight.net/robotnikmodel1new.jpeg expressively, not well.] He actually refers to this concept by name, and adheres to the assertion of Kent Butterworth (the producer of the cartoon): "If you can recognize the character, it's on model."
** The worst episodes, animation-wise, would have to be the first one ("SSSSS Squad") and the second-last one ("Robo-Ninjas"). Their animation was quite grotesque.
** A glaring instance from the episode "Over-the-Hill Hero"; [http://i271.photobucket.com/albums/jj141/1downpoison/w-1.png Sonic's mouth area disappears entirely for one frame].
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* ''[[Ed, Edd 'n' Eddy]]'' increasingly used the Looney Tunes/John K-style of off-model animation as it went on. Seeing as the character designs were mostly pretty ugly, pushing the off-model expressive style did wonders for the show.
* ''[[Exo Squad]]'' suffered greatly from this trope to the point of varying within the same episode. In part, this was due to a change in animation studios; [[Sunrise (company)|Sunrise]] was originally supposed to animate it (as seen by the ending credits test-animation), but they had to bail out to make ''[[Gundam Wing]]'' and the series ultimately ended up in the hands of AKOM.
** And speaking of ''[[Gundam Wing]]'', ''that'' series had plenty of its own moments- [https://web.archive.org/web/20151024164919/http://aboutgundamwing.com/SC/SC45/vlcsnap-780040.jpg this still] started a meme: '''SAUSAGE FINGERS'''.
* All of the various versions of the [[Super Mario Bros Super Show|Super Mario cartoons]] had their fair share of... problems.
** Then there's the one-off Indiana Jones parody who has no face for the ''entirety of the episode''. Given the lack of reactions from the other characters over this fact, it's probably an error too.
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* ''[[Avatar: The Last Airbender]]'''s animation is, overall, usually moderately good to very good and shows improvement over its three season run. However, it has some moments of this trope, though they are few and far between. A minor example is in "The Awakening", when Zuko confronts Azula in her bedroom, her hair length changes in each shot, but most were too distracted by the [[Brother-Sister Incest]] vibe to really notice.
** In "The Firebending Masters," in which, just before the dragons envelop Zuko and Aang in a cyclone of rainbow fire, Zuko's scar is drawn on the wrong side for just a second.
** Action scenes are not immune. [http://piandao.org/screencaps/ep21/ep21-1256.png Arms do not bend this way.]{{Dead link}}
** [http://piandao.org/screencaps/ep42/ep42-914.png This one]{{Dead link}} is only one frame, but it tops them all.
** Behold, the [http://piandao.org/screencaps/ep8/ep8-899.png mask that]{{Dead link}}[http://piandao.org/screencaps/ep8/ep8-900.png emotes.]{{Dead link}}
** In episode 15 of the first season most of the main characters look subtly different from how they're usually drawn. Most noticeable with Sokka.
** In Season 2 there are quite a few episodes in between like "The Desert", "Lake Laogai" and "The Guru", where the animation detail and character designs are very noticeably lower in quality. Especially made obvious by the episodes immediately following them, which give the impression of an [[Animation Bump]].
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** In the episode "Today I Am a Clown", Patty and Selma appear in one scene with off-model noses: pointy instead of their usual button noses.
** "Fat Man and Little Boy" parodies it. Homer criticizes the quality of Korean animation. His mouth promptly shifts across the screen for two seconds.
** In the episode "Homer's Odyssey", Smithers is [https://web.archive.org/web/20070306110650/http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/9/95/Smithers.jpg black]. Sherri and Terri were also (briefly) drawn without bodies in the same episode.
** The old Simpsons arcade game was made by Konami when the show was in its first season, and the sprites for some characters retain the animation mistakes. Black Smithers and blond Barney come to mind.
** ''The Simpsons'' (at least the episodes that used traditional cel animation [from seasons 1 to 13; 14 to present use digital ink and paint) has so many off-model moments that the trope should be renamed "Epic Animation Fail." Go on snpp.com, click on the transcript of any episode and you'll see a laundry list of animation and continuity mistakes.
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** Also, the show itself switched to Flash, leading to a large-scale shift in animation.
* A frequent problem with shows produced by [[Filmation]] in the 1970s. A specific example: many of the musical scenes from ''[[The Brady Kids]]'', on account of the heavy use of [[wikipedia:Rotoscoping|rotoscoping]] to save time and money on animation. Note especially the clip to "I Believe in You," where close-ups of Jan's face make it appear as though [[Nightmare Fuel|her right eye has caved in!]] Their microscopic budgets should have come as a warning.
* [[Hanna-Barbera]] falls victim to this quite a bit. [https://web.archive.org/web/20111115172300/http://sarajaye.superbusnet.com/Pictures/oldband.PNG This scene] from the first episode of ''[[The Amazing Chan and The Chan Clan]]'' looks...primitive, at best.
** It even happened in their later works, as several of them were sent to many different studios (Tom and Jerry Kids, for example, was farmed to [[Wang Film Productions]], Fil-Cartoons, and Mr. Big Cartoons).
* The short-lived ''[[Gravedale High]]'' sometimes looked this way. In "Frankenjockey", Hoover, the horse that escaped in the episode, switches between white (his actual color) and brown. In "Fear of Flying", Max Schneider is wearing a lab coat, but in the first act, the animation switches between the lab coat and his usual beige jacket.
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