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[[File:off-model_mahou-sensei-negima_3832.png|link=Mahou Sensei Negima (Manga)|frame|Makie's finger-counting skills go [[Up to Eleven]].]]
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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>
When a production company decides that the important episodes (i.e. [[Pilot Episode|pilots]], [[Wham! Episode|whams]], and [[Season Finale|finales]]) of a show get priority, other episodes (like [[Filler]]) will, to conserve production costs, be drawn with only the bare minimum of framework that they absolutely ''must'' have.
Long running shows suffering from [[No Budget|budget issues]] will start resorting to [[Filming for Easy Dub|thinly veiled camera tricks]]. The movement and even design of characters will start to slip, especially if the show is bothering to animate heavy action scenes. When they are animated, fight scenes will become [[Fight Unscene|Fight Unscenes]].
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* ''[[Mariasama ga Miteru (Light Novel)|Maria-sama Ga Miteru]]'' had inconsistent animation quality.
* The anime version of ''[[Axis Powers Hetalia]]'', due to its low budget most of the time, is infamous for having some instances of this. One notable example is a scene in the second episode where the younger Italy ("Chibitalia") is shown with his brother. Except the other child looks nothing like his brother and happens to be missing the sclera in his eyes along with his [[Idiot Hair]].
* Next time you watch ''[[Hamtaro (Anime)|Hamtaro]]'', look at [[Pokémon
** Also, at times, Laura's hair will not be shaped right.
** Like with ''[[Sonic X]]'', this is because of bad outsourcing.
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* ''[[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.
* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AWo_9CKbSXE The Ed Wood film One Million AC/DC]. Ignoring the fact that this is a porn, the ([[Narm|Laughably]] [[Special Effects Failure|fake]]) puppet looks nothing like the [[Off
* The Xenomorphs in the [[Alien vs. Predator]] movie switch between Animatronics and CG. The reason as to why this is on here? The CG Xenomorphs add a joint in the ankles, something the on-set ones lack.
* While ''[[Dragon Ball Fight for Victory Son Goku]]'' is largely based upon its [[Dragonball|source material]] some of the non-human characters (mainly Puar and Turtle) get slight color changes (Turtle having a rather [[Special Effects Failure|obvious]] seam on his beak and Puar being a plush toy aside). On the poster however, is a rather odd-looking Shenron that is shown wearing sunglasses for whatever reason (In the movie itself, he fares better design-wise, but is only a glowing green outline).
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== Live Action TV ==
* In-Universe Example: During the "Into the Comics" serial of ''[[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 ''[[
* 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
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* Some characters in ''[[Happy Tree Friends]]'' are prone to "flipping" errors, such as Russell the otter's hook hand/eye patch, Nutty's lazy eye and Lumpy's inverted antler, which change from side to side even within the ''same scene''. They also tend to give Toothy the "normal" buck teeth the other characters have instead of his trademark huge, gapped ones.
** In one scene in "Flippin' Burgers", they managed to attach Cuddles' arms ''to his cheeks'' for two seconds.
* The ''[[Homestar Runner]]'' animation [[Gross
** ''Powered By The Cheat'' toons tend to be off model as well, though this is due to [[Stylistic Suck]].
* 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.]]
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* One episode of ''[[Dragon Tales]]'' taking place in the winter had Max and Emmy arriving there in their normal outfits. Ord gives them winter gear, but when we see them putting them on, the bottom half of Emmy's dress can be seen under her jacket. A few seconds later, Emmy is wearing pants, and has actually remained in them for the rest of the episode.
* The ''[[Raw Toonage]]'' episode "Badly Animated Man" parodies this trope, and [[Limited Animation]] in general.
* The animated section of ''[[The Star Wars Holiday Special]]'' made Luke look like
* Averted (for the most part at least) in Flash and CGI by the nature of the mediums: set character models are used for the animation, and outside of freak polygon/shape disappearances or clothing/hair malfunctions that never get seen outside of DVD outtakes, going off model just doesn't happen. If CGI/Flash is ever off-model, it's usually intentionally and often subtle; according to the [[DVD Commentary]], one particular wild take in ''[[WALL-E]]'' when the title character gets struck by lightning actually required breaking the character model.
* ''[[Johnny Test]]'' suffered a rotten case of quality drop after its animation was demoted from traditional to Flash. For awhile, the show tried its best to make the differences unnoticeable, but inevitably, it became an [[Art Shift]] - now, the show struggles with animating depth to avoid a 2-D ''[[South Park]]'' feel, and the art style o the first season and the Flash seasons are ''very''d different. A few times, the difficulty of drawing in Flash has shown; circular objects are lumpy, movement is stiff, expressions are less unique and varied, and a few times, you can even catch the animators performing a copy-paste job with multiple objects, such as animals. One instance had a bunch of perfectly identical bunnies stacked on top of each other like a house of cards. It doesn't help that they're ''not even animated!''
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