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{{quote|''"I wish the art was good throughout the whole series, not just in the final episode."'' <br />
''"These days, anime has [[Animation Bump|good art]] in the first and last episodes, never in the middle."'' <br />
''"That's not something you can just [[Enhanced
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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The prevalence of computer-inked animation in recent years merely assures that ''colors'' stay consistent. Off model refers to the character model (on a model sheet), which is what the animators are ''supposed'' to base their drawings on. Another important step is animation checking, which may be skimped on when time or money is short.
Fans are typically not pleased, and it is very common for companies to announce they're [[Enhanced
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. The result of staying true to off-model animation is [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iR6KjNmN2BA fantastic], in Kricfalusi's case. [[Walt Disney Animation Australia]], [[Carbunkle Cartoons]] and [[Star Toons]] are also examples. However, their use of it is [[Depending
See also [[Uncanny Valley]]. 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]], [[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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** 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].) [http://cube.ign.com/dor/objects/478841/rayman-3-hoodlum-havoc/images/raymandgcnnewlatgc14.html Just compare] [http://cube.ign.com/dor/objects/478841/rayman-3-hoodlum-havoc/images/raymandgcnnewlatgc4.html how he looks] [http://cube.ign.com/dor/objects/478841/rayman-3-hoodlum-havoc/images/rayman3gc_061802_6.html in the game] to how he looks on the commercial.
* 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
* 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.
* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mwpkbYYv12o An M&Ms commercial from Madagascar] (the country, not the movie) has horrible-looking models of the M&Ms mascots; they're completely hollow on the inside with no tongues and they appear lumpy whenever they move their limbs.
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* 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.
* [[Naruto
** One of the good things about the dub (and most foreign broadcasts in general) is that they always use the redone version to avoid the often craptacular moments (especially individual frames) of off-model animation, like one where Naruto was depicted without his head. But when that does happen, at least [[Memetic Mutation|Naruto looks kinda cool]].
** 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.
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** 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.]]
* ''[[
** 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 [http://bluemist.animeblogger.net/archives/negima-sakuga-tracker-asuna-version/\] and [http://bluemist.animeblogger.net/archives/negima-sakuga-tracker-yue-version/\], as well as the infamous six-fingered Makie pictured above.
* The entirety of episode 19 of the anime ''[[Sousei no Aquarion]]'' is off-model, both to indicate a world that isn't quite real, but also in the "real world", where everybody simply looks... ''odd''. Considering that it's an important [[Arc]] episode, this is quite an anomaly. It's an anomaly for deliberate reasons, though, since the episode had arthouse animator Satoru Utsunomiya as guest director/creator. [[media:kerai/1129789204107.jpg|Click here]] for examples.
* The DVD sales for the second season of [[Minami
* ''[[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]]''.
** Cell is missing one of the purplish lines on the side of his face after he and Goku are worn down in Episode 165: ''The Fight Is Over''.
** [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 (
* Only the first episode of ''[[Yoake Mae Yori
* 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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** The first season also has its share of [[Off-Model]] animation. During the first season, when Arf confronts Nanoha for the first time, [[Those Two Guys|Suzuka]] [http://i238.photobucket.com/albums/ff140/_ArcticTern_/lolwutf.png is drawn without a face]. The animation for that whole episode was weird. It was drawn in an entirely different style from the rest of the series, like they called in the animators from a totally different show to do that episode for them.
* The fourth episode of ''[[Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann]]'' marked a huge departure in character design and animation from the both previous and future episode. However, this wasn't due out-sourcing animation, but because it had a completely different storyboarder/director/lead animator, so it could be considered more of an full-episode [[Art Shift]]. This generated vast controversy on the Japanese [[Image Board]] 2channel, culminating in the show's producer (and co-founder of [[Studio Gainax]]) resigning from Gainax's board as a result of disparaging remarks made against the fans. Yowza.
* ''[[
* 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 [http://manga.animea.net/kateikyoushi-hitman-reborn--chapter-320-page-3.html can make a face like this!]. see lower left panel.
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* ''[[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.
** This is because of bad outsourcing, as the third season done by 4Kids rather by Sega themselves like with seasons 1 and 2, as season 3 was mostly done in Korea.
* ''[[Pokémon (
** In "Spinarak Attack", Ash, Misty, and Brock were thrown in a web, and as they're bouncing, Brock disappears completely in one frame of animation.
** In "Buizel Your Way Out Of This!", when Zoey checks on her Glameow after losing to Buziel, she suddenly [http://archives.bulbagarden.net/media/upload/5/5c/DP034_error.png loses her left arm] for a half-second.
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** A third major error had far-reaching complications: In the episode "Virgin Road" (the same one that also gave us the infamous knife fight mentioned above), some of the Valkyries are shown firing lasers from the nosecone. ''The fittings they fire from are [[Word of God|officially]] the attachment points for the legs when the Valk is in Batroid mode.'' This bit of [[Did Not Do the Research]] on the part of Star Pro (a farm studio foisted on the production by Tatsunoko) became canon for Robotech, especially in the licensed Palladium game, which lists the "weapon" as standard on the craft.<ref>Actually, for those who are not familiar with Macross/Robotech, the lasers are supposed to fire from the underbelly of the Valkyrie, from a turret that becomes the craft's head in Batroid mode.</ref>
** The more recent ''[[Macross Frontier]]'' also has some minor problems with this; the series never ends up looking totally awful per se, but it's pretty clear which episodes are outsourced even before they run the credits. Even the main-team episodes can look a mite odd in places, though.
* ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh!]]'' suffered seriously from this. The first two seasons have a consistent art style, but all the others suffer from dozens of different art styles (especially in the fillers). Some of them do make the characters look better (almost [[Moe]]-like), but some of them are just horrible. Sometimes the body parts get out of proportion, sometimes the face-lines are way too exaggerated (making the characters seem to be pretty sleepy), and sometimes the girls' girly parts are randomly enlarged/shortened.
** Here's [http://img188.imageshack.us/img188/7685/yugifaces.jpg a run of Yami Yugi] in some episodes, and here is [http://img148.imageshack.us/img148/5739/bakurafaces.jpg a run of Yami Bakura] in some episodes. Bakura suffered a little less, since he stayed out of all the fillers, but still had quite a change from his first appearance to later episodes.
** For further amusement, [http://thumbsnap.com/s/xPMZYjAb.jpg Yami and his small feet] from episode 160, [http://i718.photobucket.com/albums/ww188/kitty_fur/balcktristan.jpg?t=1257092493 Black Tristan] from episode 43, and most infamously, [http://thumbsnap.com/i/6VpkIyWd.jpg Seto Kaiba's pointy chin] from several scenes of the anime.
** ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh!:
{{quote| '''Yami:''' It's like the animators didn't even care!}}
* ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh!
** This was fixed for the DVD release (or at least the 4Kids dub anyway), but Stardust Dragon's tail remains shoddily drawn.
** Here's a fun thing to laugh at. This ending scene of Episode 81 has something missing. [http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v185/Transfan2/Kaiba222%20Yu%20Gi%20Oh%205Ds%20Episode%20Pics/Kaiba222%20Yu%20Gi%20Oh%205Ds%20Episode%2081%20Pics/Kaiba222Yu-Gi-Oh5DsEpisode81_PIC668.jpg What could it be?]
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** Energon is brutally chewed out on the Transformers Wiki for having CGI models that emote [[Dull Surprise]] at all times, outlines that don't change with size perspective, several missing scenes as aformentioned, and even having the guts to blatantly ''go back to cel-shaded animation'' for scenes that require fluid animation. One wonders what the show would've been like if the animation wasn't massacred by the choice to switch to CGI. Worse, the scripts have been mangled in the US dub, so much so that the same wiki above has a "Pain Count" for each episode- every instance where a moment of dead air is filled with a random stock phrase, or prolonged groans {such as "uhhhh") to keep the ball rolling. Notable are episodes 30, 31, 43 and 49 (the last two on that list are technically 44 & 51, but episode 33 was skipped on the English Dub for unknown reasons), where cel animation is downright glaring.
** ''[[Transformers Cybertron]]''; despite not having the [[Actas|company]] used for ''Armada'' still falls into this. Thanks to hiring two studios ([[GONZO]] and [[Sunwoo Entertainment]]) that are better, but not by much. [[Dull Surprise]] is less prevalent, but it's fairly obvious there's still trouble going on trying to make the CGI models show particularly deep emotion.
*** In the early stages of production, it wasn't clear if Cybertron would follow Energon's storyline. Eventually, [[Word of God]] said no- but one episode had Alexis appear out of the blue on stage- an unintentional [[Freeze
*** In a bizarre turn of events, Hasbro actually tried to string Cybertron's continuity with Armada's and Energon's and ignore the discontinuity, thereby creating the so-called "Unicron Trilogy." In the final episode, they added several shots that actually had competent animation of Rad, Carlos, Alexis, and Kicker- ''but'' they screwed up when they tried to depict the characters with the Transformers they grew most attached to. The Armada kids (now adults) had superimposed images of High Wire, Sureshock, and Grindor in the background... straight from the ''wildly'' innacurate Armada boxart. As for Kicker, an image of Hot Shot was placed in the background, but Kicker's partner during Energon... was ''[[Did Not Do the Research|Ironhide!!!]]''
* The scene in ''[[Shuffle]]'' episode 1 where Asa grabs Rin's arm by the lockers and the scene in episode 24 where Asa ''also'' grabs Rin's arm by the lockers are suspiciously similar, from the way Kaede and Rin stand in the scene, and the way Asa waves at Rin before departing, except that she had longer hair in episode 24 because {{spoiler|Rin forced her to use her magic to save him and the long hair was a side effect.}}
* The one-shot "sequel" chapter of ''[[
** 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 [[T Ms]] and [[Studio DEEN]]</ref>. Not only do the characters' faces and hair length change from show to show, a character's sunglasses are at one point drawn off-model and subtly shift back to a more accurate design as the scene progresses. Characters wearing single earrings frequently have them switching from one ear to the other - or even to ''both''. The show seems to take a demented delight in going off-model to the extent it becomes distracting, and not only does the art quality vary wildly from episode to episode, it randomly degenerates ''in the middle of episodes'' as well.
* ''[[Fate/stay
* 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]]. [http://img.imgcake.com/34b5c788592e7c8335122f247c5cd18fav.jpg Or two books.] Or getting hung by [[Idiot Hair|that one hair]] from the ceiling.
* More than a few scenes in the [[Black Rock Shooter]] OVA suffer from missing details, misshapen faces and stubby limbs being common symptoms.
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* ''[[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 [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:
* Happens occasionally in ''[[Fullmetal Alchemist (
** Brotherhood is definitely the worst about this, though. Compared to the 2003 series, which had fairly consistent look throughout, many episodes look very off in comparison with the better artwork. Examples include, episode three the fight with Ed and Cornello looks so poor that it detracts from the rest of the episode. The worse offender is definitely Al though, especially in the last episode where {{spoiler|he returns to Resembool. He's supposed to look like a slightly unhealthly 14 year old, but in Brotherhood, he looks like he's in his thirties.}}
** The Manga's also not immune, as Riza's eyes can sometimes change from having irises or having completely black pupils (and no iris). This can happen from panel to panel in a few pages later in the run (This can be jarring to some as she's never really shown to expressively emote without moving from the black eyes). They were switched to brown in the Anime proper.
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* Similar to the ''Naruto'' example above, a handful of episodes in ''[[One Piece]]'' are drawn in a rougher, less detailed style to allow for greater expression and impressively fluid fighting animation. While the character models are actually closer to the manga's artwork than most of the show, this does inevitably result in some rather bizarre drawings on occasion, such as in episode 404, where Chopper's neck mysteriously becomes as wide as his head during frontal closeups of him in Walk Point.
** Zoro has a [http://fc00.deviantart.net/fs70/f/2010/177/1/2/Two_Zoro__s_by_18Saya.jpg twin.]
* The ''[[Higurashi no Naku Koro
** 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 no Naku Koro
** 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.
* ''[[
* The anime adaptation of ''[[Urusei Yatsura]]'' had several cases of off model animation, most notably in the early episodes. The entire series had a total of 28 animation directors, and it would appear that only two of them (Asami Endo and Akemi Takada, respectively) actually attempted to remain true to Akemi Takada's character designs.
** Something similar happens in ''[[Ranma One Half]]''. The first season was very well animated, but the second season suffered a real drop in animation quality in general (and with some episodes, like the final part of the Phoenix Pill arc, being truly terrible), and this lower quality went on for a good portion of the third season as well. By the fourth season, though, the general quality increased considerably, though there were still a few "off" episodes right up until the seventh season, which --despite using more angular, less rounded character designs-- was just as good as the first otherwise.
* An early episode of ''[[Mobile Suit Gundam 00]]'' depicted the people within a crowd shot as looking like nothing so much as Q-tips; rather than being a freeze-frame thing, however, this was a several-second wide angle shot. It was corrected in the DVD release.
** There were quite a few quality shots all the way through the series, especially in season 2. Fixed for DVD, of course.
* ''[[The Hakkenden]]'' series of OAVs suffers from drastic ups and downs in art and animation quality. The first two episodes, for example, are gorgeous -- then the third makes you wonder if you got a cheap knockoff by accident. The episode Hamaji's Resurrection goes off-model intentionally, opting for an infinitely more realistic style, in an attempt to portray the more serious tone of that particular story.
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* Besides the fact that [[Hentai]] and QUALITY are practically synonymous, ''hentai'' series ''Bondage Game'' have an extremely obvious continuity error: in episode 2, during Yayoi's Breast Expansion scene, her now humongous breasts appear naked. But mere seconds later, she appears to wear an leathery apparel around them, who disappears in the middle of the scene as suddenly as it appeared.
* ''[[ROD the TV]]'' had a noticeable drop in quality in the later episodes of the TV version. Substantial reworking was performed for the DVD releases.
* The earlier seasons of the ''[[Slayers]]'' anime were a bit cheap in the animation department, swinging from very good to piss poor. The "piss poor" end is mostly blatant in the third season, where the characters are deformed for extended periods of time for no apparent reason. The [[A Day in
** The [[Un Cancelled|belated]] fourth and fifth seasons were of a better quality overall, regardless of the newer animation.
* The ''hentai'' production ''[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PaGjs-SuxWY&feature=related#movie_player Sailor Moon & the 7 Ballz]'' ([[NSFW]]) is the absolute ''epitome'' of this trope.
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* ''[[Tenchi in Tokyo]]'' was already the redheaded stepchild of the various ''Tenchi'' incarnations. Further exacerbating this problem was that the animation followed the off-model parabola to a T. The first and last episodes are very well animated, with fluid motion and consistent characters. Every episode in the middle is a bumpy road, with the biggest jars coming from episodes plagued with weird camera angles that distort the characters noticeably.
** Also, from the last episode of the original series, the last scene with Mihoshi, Washu and Ryoko in Washu's lab was almost surreal in its poor quality. With cels that are visibly not animated and loud cookie-cutter sound effects, it is obvious that this scene was [[Monty Python and The Holy Grail|completed in an entirely different style at great expense and at the last minute]].
* ''[[
* ''[[You're Under Arrest]]'' is quite infamous for this. It actually switched between [[Animation Bump]] and [[Off-Model]] with ''each'' episode, much like the Batman or Transformers examples below... Which makes you wonder whether or not AKOM was given a few episodes by Studio DEEN to work on and not getting the proper credit. [[It Got Worse]].
** In the Full Throttle season, (episode 19 to be precise) there's an entire scene where Miyuki's bare hands are colored white (Yes, you read that right, she's supposed to have gloves on at that time). The opening also gives us a literal instance of [[Magic Brakes]].
* ''[[Mariasama ga Miteru
* 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 ''[[
** Also, at times, Laura's hair will not be shaped right.
** Like with ''[[Sonic X]]'', this is because of bad outsourcing.
* As if [[Tsundere|her personality wasn't terrifying enough]], the title character from ''[[
* Some episodes of the original ''[[
** If that weren't enough, the first [[Macekre]] adaptation known as ''[[Battle of the Planets]]'' added in filler animation done by Gallerie International to fill in the spots left by censorship, which included the grating 7-Zark-7 sequences...along with a sequence chock-full of QUALITY animation known as the "Ready Room", where all five members of G-Force were practically unrecognizable and looked like something out of a rejected Hanna-Barbera show.
* ''[[Neon Genesis Evangelion]]'' slips into this with more regularity than most people care to remember, due to the general lack of money. Episodes 6 and 17 stand out in particular. In Episode 6, try drinking every time someone goes off-model. You'll be comatose.
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* ''[[Chargeman Ken]]'' was made so low-budget, half of the time the mouths don't move at all. There are other far worse errors that just add to its ~So Bad It's Good~ quality.
** The company that produced ''Chargeman Ken'', Knack, was pretty notorious for its QUALITY animation. Some of their other titles include the animated version of ''Gekkou Kamen'', as well as ''Dame Oyaji'', ''Don Chuck Monogatari'' and ''Yaruki Manman''.
* [[MM
* ''[[Space Carrier Blue Noah]]'' had noticeably awful animation, even for a 1970s anime.
* [http://i56.tinypic.com/if4ku0.jpg Shows up in just] [http://i51.tinypic.com/21bocvn.jpg about every episode of] ''[[Togainu no Chi]]''. It really says something about the QUALITY issues when the fandom rejoiced after hearing that the release date for the first DVD was delayed 3 months.
* The second season of ''[[
** And this little gem from episode one, where [http://img808.imageshack.us/img808/1841/11757670.jpg They forgot to draw Claudes waist...]
* ''[[Bakugan]]'' has this problem with the humans, to the point that watching three minutes of one episode feels like watching ''14'' different anime.
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* ''[[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.
* Some episodes of ''[[Crayon Shin
* In some episodes of ''[[Saiyuki]]'', notably episode 2 in ''[[Saiyuki]] Reload Gunlock'', the characters look so different you could easily think they were from another show with a less [[Cast Full of Pretty Boys|deliberately attractive cast]].
* ''[[
* 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.
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* ''[[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.]
* [[
** 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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* 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 (
** For a time, ''Sonic the Hedgehog'' took [[Depending
== Documentaries ==
* Many of the creatures in ''[[Walking
** 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.
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== Film -- Animated ==
* ''[[Max Fleischers Gullivers Travels]]'' is ''extremely'' unstable in its animation quality. Some scenes are fairly well drawn and animated (the first scenes with the Kings, Gulliver's meticulously [[Rotoscoping|rotoscoped]] animation) to absolutely abysmal (i.e., the scene where Gabby falls into Gulliver's hand early in the film, some of the crowd shots). This was undoubtably a result of its rushed deadline, plus the mixed influx of East Coast and West Coast animators working on the film, some of whom were literally hired off the street and given animation cram courses in a matter of ''hours'' before getting to work. As such, the film suffers not only from a mix of sloppy and professional animation, but also floaty, mushy inbetweens and sloppy inking. There are even some design-wise off model moments (i.e., Gabby's eyes tend to be drawn differently depending on the artist). There's a reason [[Walt Disney]] quipped that [[Insult to Rocks|"We can make a better film that that with our second string animators."]]
* One example would be a scene in ''[[Pinocchio (Disney film)|Disney's Pinocchio]]''. When Pinoc sets his finger on fire and Gepetto tries to put it out, watch his cap--it disappears and reappears several times throughout the scene!
* During the first chase scene from ''[[
** Also, at the end of the film, during the scene where the cats stuff Edgar into the very crate he was going to use to ship Duchess and her kittens to Timbuktu with, and later pushing said crate out the door, there is no lock on the crate's lid as it was already removed by Roquefort the mouse, but when the movers finally come to pick it up and take it away, the lock for some reason was already back on the crate's lid!
* [[Ralph Bakshi]]'s ''[[The Lord of the Rings (
** Merry and Pippin switch between blonde and brown hair
** Humans outside the main cast are poorly animated
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* When the animals escape from the fire in ''Bambi'', a mother raccoon pauses after emerging from the river to lick her baby dry. [[Fridge Horror|The baby disappears.]] However, this was fixed for the DVD releases.
** Some prints of the movie have said baby raccoon suddenly reappearing in another random spot in the shot, lessening the [[Fridge Horror]], but still looking a little tacky.
* Prince John, the [[Big Bad]] of Disney's ''[[Robin Hood (Disney film)|Robin Hood]]'', constantly gains and loses rings throughout the entire film.
** Lampshaded by Prince John at the archery tournament.
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** Also, Maid Marian for some reason becomes unusually tall for a fox whenever she is dancing (guess [[Snow White
* The circus locomotive from ''[[
** Also, during the scene where the [[Delivery Stork]] that is carrying Dumbo is looking down at the Southeastern United States, there are no clouds above the map, but when the stork finally descends, clouds inexplicably appear above said map.
** And at the end of the film, when Mrs. Jumbo is released from captivity and riding inside her and Dumbo's private train car, the ruffles on her hat actually disappear just right when Dumbo flies into said train car and into his mother's trunk.
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* One scene from ''[[Pocahontas]]'' shows a closeup of John Smith's boots ([[Rascally Raccoon|Meeko the raccoon]] is standing between them). For some reason, there's an empty void on the heel of Smith's left boot!
** Flit's wings disappear in one scene.
* During the "You Can Fly" number from ''[[Peter Pan (Disney film)|Peter Pan]]'', when Peter Pan and the Darling children fly away from the Big Ben clock tower before finally arriving at Neverland, Wendy Darling's face [[Nightmare Fuel|actually disappears for a split second.]]
* Toward the end of ''[[The Hunchback of Notre Dame (Disney film)|The Hunchback of Notre Dame]]'', Phoebus' armor mysteriously vanishes just right after being pulled out of the water by Esmeralda.
** That was deliberate. Plot-wise, Esmeralda worked it off underwater because it was too heavy and she couldn't swim with it on him. Unfortunately, they skipped the underwater part due to time constraints.
** A more straight example would be the fact that during the same scene, when one of Frollo's henchmen shoots Phoebus off his horse, making him fall into the water, the arrow is in the back, but when Esmeralda pulls him out, the arrow is in the front!
* ''[[Snow White
* ''[[The Thief and
* At the end of ''[[Cars]]'' during the final race scene, the King's eyes actually change from brown to blue when he is crashed by [[Big Bad|Chick Hicks]]. His eyes then turn back to brown just right when he is helped by Lightning McQueen into crossing the finish line.
** At the start of the race in Japan in the sequel, Lightning mysteriously gains his party wheels at the starting line for a few seconds, but is wearing his racing wheels for the remainder of that race.
* During the first Elephant Patrol scene from ''[[The Jungle Book (Disney film)|The Jungle Book]]'', Colonel Hathi accidentally breaks his bamboo cane, but in the next scene, Hathi's cane is inexplicably repaired!
* Happens to [[Big Bad|Gaston's]] face for a few seconds during the song [[Villain Song|"Gaston"]] from ''[[Beauty and
* The ''[[Bionicle]]'' movies combine this with [[Special Effects Failure]] with tiny Nuju in the first film, the disfigured Visorak in the third film, and the robot body of Mata Nui in the fourth film; It's both lighter in color and smaller than in other media featuring it.
* Happens a lot of the time in ''[[
** Unicron's appearance noticeably changes as well, as his first transformation sequence had been completed before his iconic robo-bearded face was finalized.
* ''[[Cinderella (Disney film)|Cinderella]]'', for some reason, actually doesn't have any toes. However, the third movie gives her feet proper details in a scene of [[Foot Focus]].
** Also, at the end of the film, Cinderella's wedding dress is supposed to have long sleeves, but when she and Prince Charming get inside the carriage, her dress has short sleeves like her ballroom gown.
* ''[[The Lion King]]'' has Nala's eye color switching from [[Green Eyes]] to [[Blue Eyes]] during the same scene.
* Just about every single Disney deleted scene ever made (with the sole exception being the [[Horny Vikings|"Viking prologue"]] from ''[[Atlantis:
** 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 "[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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== Film -- Live-Action ==
* A rare multi-million dollar live action example: the live action ''[[Transformers (
** 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.
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* [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-Shelf FX|toy dinosaur]] used. Tragedy is done indeed.
* 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 [[
* Not even the 1933 ''[[King Kong]]'' is immune. Close up shots of the beast that don't involve the stop-motion model makes him look like a cartoon character instead of the semi-real gorilla he's supposed to be.
* In the first ''[[Spider
* The original [[Godzilla]] films exhibit this trope during any water scene, using a costume from a different film instead of the one presently used. [[It Got Worse|Gets worse]] throughout the late 60s and all the way through the mid 70s when the budgets were very low. To the point where one costume started to fall apart during the filming of ''Godzilla Vs. Gigan''.
* Watch ''[[Mighty Morphin Power Rangers (
* In-Universe example: ''[[Terminator|Terminator II: Judgement Day]]'' when the {{spoiler|T-1000 dies}}.
* The theatrical release of ''[[Star Trek: The Motion Picture
* In ''[[Star Trek V:
* ''[[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.
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* In 2007, ''[[Gaia Online]]'' decided to take advantage of their new cinema feature and enlisted an animation company to animate their Halloween plotline. After teasing us with works from 3d animation companies during the film festival, "[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=717wOI4IBiE MMVII Part 1: White Eclipse]" was released. Even if you ignore the awkwardly implemented plot and horrible voice acting, you can't help but noticed how one of the characters appears to have come down with a horrible case of hemorrhoids. There's also the fact that after the Vampire protagonist kills a wolf and drinks its blood, they put plenty of blood on the inexplicable midsummer snow, yet ''forget to put it anywhere else''. The Vampire's mouth, and the wolf's corpse are both blood free. And this is only in ''part one''. Needless to say, Gaia reverted to a comic based story line, [[Reset Button|undid]] most of what happened during the animated shorts, showcased the best parodies of the shorts, and then tossed them into the bin of "[[Canon Dis Continuity|Things we'd rather forget]]".
** 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).
* ''[[
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== Toys ==
* The Fall Out Boy [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 [http://www.actionfigureinsider.com/news/images/sota/SOTAFalloutBoy.jpg action figures] a while back. [http://earsucker.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/01/pete_wentz_seamstress.jpg (Yes, Pete Wentz's face DOES work that way.)]
* ''[[Transformers Generation
** 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.
** A lot of Takara-made Transformers toys will receive accurate paint jobs, but Hasbro, being the cost-efficient harpies they are, will often use similar, but cheaper paint to substitute the more expensive colors they might need- justified if the toy is made from a material where paint won't adhere to it unless it's a special kind, or if the paint is deemed toxic.
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** Some other noticeable ones include Swoop not being the same color as his cartoon model (he was in the predecessor line ''Diaclone'' however), many characters (Trailbreaker, Bumblebee, Mixmaster of the Constructicons) having mouthplates instead of proper mouths, Jetfire going from his [[Super Dimension Fortress Macross|VF-1]] form to a generic jet between the toy release and show and Galvatron being grey instead of purple (This was corrected in a re-release in 2005).
* 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
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* 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 {{spoiler|Ganon's Castle-}}, let alone the now far more ornate {{spoiler|rainbow bridge that forms when you have all six Sage Medallions.}} However, the game seems to fail to switch from the Hookshot to a model of the Longshot when you obtain the replacement item.
* 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 ''[[
** Note that this is only the PC version, though, as the console versions used sprites from ''[[Super Mario World (
* The cutscenes from ''[[The
** [[Memetic Mutation|"Squadalah! We're Off Model!"]]
** Likewise with ''[[
** Same with the familiar "no" shot.
** ''[[
* ''<nowiki>~Mutant Rampage: Body Slam~</nowiki>'', also by the same creators, is a little bit better (mostly because it [[Stock Footage|shamelessly reuses]] most of its footage), but even there, the difference in quality between scenes is noticeable.
* When Mario enters the castle at the end of the original ''[[Super Mario Bros. (
* ''[[
** During the motorcycle chase FMV, there's a brief shot of the guards on the highway reacting to Cloud gunning the bike out of the Shinra building. Cloud is properly proportioned and carefully rendered and looks fantastic. The guard is just his overworld map form.
** There are also several cutscenes near the end of Disc 2 and on Disc 3 where everything is pre-rendered FMV with great particle effects, but all of the party members are blocky overworld models. Apparently, those were done first in development.
*** Actually, these were intentional and done rather late in development, as the scenes were not originally meant to be part of the game but were added in to cover CD load times.
* ''[[
* In ''[[
* With the release of ''[[
* [[Fighting Game|Fighting Games]], particularly those with the [[Capcom Sequel Stagnation]], suffer from this, with ''Super [[Street Fighter]] II'' and ''Super Street Fighter II Turbo'' being the first two major examples. In the former the four new challengers were obviously better drawn and had more animation frames, while in the latter almost everyone had a few new moves, and the sprites for those are more fluid in animation but have slightly worse shading and detail compared to the older sprites.
** Also, the numerous Crossovers between Capcom and other franchises. Starting with ''X-Men vs. Street Fighter'', where Cyclops, Wolverine and others had much smoother, visibly different-styled sprites comparing to the [[Street Fighter]] Alpha ones. But this is acceptable compared to Capcom vs. SNK where Sagat, Morrigan and some others who had their sprites ripped from older games looked REALLY [[Off-Model]], since the game had fairly high-resolution sprites.
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** [[SNK]]'s games suffer from this as well, usually due to reusing old sprite animations. The biggest offender is in ''SVC Chaos: SNK vs. Capcom'' which used a sprite style similar to ''[[The King of Fighters]]'' series. In particular, the sprites for Terry's Buster Wolf DM is Terry sprite from ''Garou: Mark of the Wolves'' redrawn in Terry's classic outfit. The same holds true with Mr. Karate (aka Takuma Sakazaki) who's uppercut DM is Marco's sprite (also from Garou) redrawn as Mr. Karate. The effect is extremely noticeable due to the different art styles.
* The [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EjDlOXc8Jn4 opening cinematic] of ''[[Vanguard Bandits]]'' was clearly made without a big budget to help. Even if you ignore the abuse of still-shots, nothing forgives Bastion (the main character) being older/younger depending on the shot, his nose becoming huge in a side-shot, or little sparkles coming from a girl's ''wrist''. Like Spider-Man.
* The DS versions of ''[[Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney]]'' maintain the original (GBA) versions' sprite resolutions. Which makes it weird, particularly in the DS-only ''[[Apollo Justice: Ace Attorney]]'', to see them paired up with the higher-resolution artwork of the DS-specific episode in the first game. Thankfully, everyone's properly redrawn in both ''Apollo Justice'' and ''[[Ace Attorney Investigations Miles Edgeworth]]'') due to them being created for the DS.
** They did however make all the sprites taller in the DS versions by extending and showing more of the character's waist/lower body, though in courtroom scenes they just extended the benches for the lawyers rather than the lawyers themselves.
* The early ''[[Pokémon]]'' games had a ''severe'' case of this.
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* In ''[[Persona 3]]'': FES (or more specifically, The Answer) Aegis has an extra hand and forearm when her eyes go blank.
** Yukari's hair is a Schrodinger's Cat that responds to the viewer's moods and atmospheric pressure. One minute it's short-cropped (in-game model, character portrait,) another it's shoulder-length (several anime cutscenes,) and later still it has become a ''mullet'' (rest of the animated cutscenes.)
* Not even ''[[
** From third-person view, Heavy's default gloves are dark brown, but in first-person, they're black.
** In first-person view, a BLU Engineer will have orange gloves just like a RED Engie, but yellow in third-person, official art, and the Meet the Team shorts.
** In the short "Meet the Spy", when BLU Spy brings in Sniper's corpse and sets it on the table, the corpse does not have glasses on. But later on in the short, when Spy says the line "You've seen what he's done to our colleagues", the camera pans down to Sniper's corpse and his glasses are now on.
** In third-person, Sniper wears a fingerless glove only on his left hand, and a watch on his left arm. In first-person, he has gloves on both hands and doesn't wear the watch.
* Character mugs in the first three ''[[
** The ''Shooting Star Rockman'' game takes this into consideration and replaces a few of the old mugshots (of the main characters) with proper renditions of their faces.
* ''[[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]].
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** In the 6/12/2011 update, [http://www.mspaintadventures.com/scratch.php?s=6&p=005748 there was a group shot of six of the trolls] including a distorted-looking Karkat off in the distance<ref>the one in grey next to Terezi, the one in green and red</ref> which looked as if his entire body was made up of a pair of legs. Upon noticing the goof, fanartists leapt into an enthusiastic [[Memetic Mutation|Pantskat]] party including lots of fake sprites and [http://mspaintadventures.wikia.com/index.php?title=Karkat_Vantas&oldid=48584 wiki vandalism]. And then the memetic longpants actually [[Ascended Meme|appeared in the comic for real]], as an article of clothing alchemized by fedoraFreak, and as the legwear of Karkat's ancestor.
* ''[[Sonichu]]'': characters' body parts and change proportions and length so often that it's not a stretch to say that no one is ever drawn the same way twice. The art improves somewhat starting with Issue 5, but not by much.
* The [[Alt Text]] in the [[Splash Page]] of ''[[
* 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>.
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* ''[[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.
* [http://youchew.net/forum/index.php?/topic/987-post-weird-animation-frames-of-anything/page__hl__%2Bweird+%2Banimation+%2Bframes This] [[Youtube Poop|YouChewPoop]] topic is determined to find all examples of this. It's got more than 200 pages (using the default post-per-page setting).
* If it's not traced, then the animation in [[
* 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.]
* Found in ''[[Girlchan in Paradise]]'', as part of the series' [[Stylistic Suck]].
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* The ''[[Homestar Runner]]'' animation [[Gross-Out Show|"In Search of the Yello Dello"]] is ''definitely'' full of these, especially with both Homestar and Coach Z's designs for this animation.
** ''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
* Quasi-intentional in a few episodes of ''[[
== Western Animation ==
* ''[[Star Wars:
** 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.
** [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 ''[[
* The ''[[Looney Tunes]]'' TV specials and feature films produced in the '70s and '80s tended to suffer from this, seeing as how they were essentially [[Clip Show|clip shows]] that would string together scenes from a bunch of individual theatrical shorts (many of them produced years apart, by different director/animator units, etc.) and "link" them with newly produced filler animation (which was typically far cheaper and more limited than the original material).
** Also, the late '60s ''Looney Tunes'' directed by Alex Lovy featured some utterly butchered versions of Daffy Duck and Speedy Gonzales. Daffy in particular looked as if none of his body parts were properly attached to each other, and while Speedy looked a bit better he seemed to have gained 100 lbs. since his heyday.
** John K's philosophy on good off-model animation was directly inspired by the animation in the old Looney Tunes, those by Bob Clampett in particular, where the animators would invoke [[Depending
* ''[[Tiny Toon Adventures]]''' animation quality was very uneven, ranging from abysmal (Encore) to gorgeous ([[Tokyo Movie Shinsha]]), depending on the studio working on a particular episode. Since episodes were often composed by 2 or 3 separate and largely unrelated (or very loosely related) shorts, the quality could decline (or increase) within a single installment.
** Most notably, [[Kennedy Cartoons]] got fired after Season 1 due to their inconsistent quality (some portions of the debut episode, which they animated, had to be re-drawn). Many fans of the show consider the Kennedy's animation the worst of the series, disregarding some worse studios. One studio that managed to do even worse than Kennedy was the aforementioned Encore Cartoons; little is known about them (they were allegedly a domestic company) because, after three episodes of ''Tiny Toon Adventures'' (one of which credited [[Alan Smithee]] as a director) they did ''nothing else, ever''.
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** Gentlemen, I give you [http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Image:SOSDinobots_bluePrime.jpg blue Optimus Prime.]
** The single-most nefarious animation error of Transformers- Optimus Prime with '''''[http://transformers.wikia.com/wiki/File:Optimus_prime_nomouthplate.jpg no mouthplate!!!]'''''
** It gets much, much worse. TF Wiki gives animation errors as part of its trivia list for each episode. When AKOM (Responsible for the many off model episodes in ''[[Batman:
** Inconsistency did not only occur between different shots, but from frame to frame too. Often the mechanical detailing on the robots would shift around during movements, and at times they ended up looking totally different from how they started. In ''More Than Meets the Eye, Part 3'', when the Autobots help the fallen Optimus Prime up, take a look at his thigh, and how it changes design.
** ''[[
** Transmetal Cheetor walking in the background when he was already a Transmetal II. Another common mistake was the disappearance of certain body pieces (most notably, the back kibble), or in some cases, the characters being animated with someone else's parts (Rampage has Depth Charge's legs for one shot). Very rarely, the animation models went through bizarre changes during movements. A notable example is when Primal's neck and head grow really long, and he talks without moving his lips.
** Though really, every incarnation of the franchise has several off model moments (G1 and Armada, the latter of which is already explained in the Anime section, are possibly the worst offenders though...) Some other fine examples:
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** The animators at [[Polygon Pictures]] can never decide whether [[Transformers Prime|Arcee's non-blue bits are pink or translucent, or what Bumblebee's eyes look like]].
* ''[[Clerks the Animated Series]]'' references this trope in one episode, ''announcing'' that the remainder of the episode was outsourced to a Korean animation studio. Instantly, the tense courtroom drama is replaced by large-eyed, poorly animated caricatures of the characters against abstract backgrounds, throwing a "Big American Party". And that's not telling what happens after.
** "Who's driving? Oh my God, ''[[Everything's Worse
* The last few seasons of ''[[Muppet Babies]]'' suffered greatly from this. In the first seasons the animation was being handled by the venerable [[Toei Animation]] studio, which generally did a good job of keeping the characters on model. When they switched to a lesser Korean studio (AKOM in this case), the drawing was less than adequate. Piggy and Gonzo in particular were hit pretty hard by this.
* ''[[
** Check out the end of Season Two, "Hunter's Moon". The Hunters are amazing gummy with super-stretchy arms that pretty much [[Narm|ruins their dramatic blood oath scene.]]
** And for your amusement, a [http://h1.ripway.com/Hybriddragon/Lets_Examine_A_Gargoyles_Episode.html few screen captures from Macbeth's introductory episode.]
** This gets even worse in the third season The Goliath Chronicles, especially in the episode "Seeing Isn't Believing".
* The [[DCAU]] suffered from several moments of characters being off-model - especially after the [[Art Evolution]], but the last season of ''[[Superman:
** Both [[AKOM]] and [[Sunrise]] often went off-model in their episodes for ''[[Batman:
** One studio, Dust, was used for only a single episode, "Beware The Gray Ghost", because their work was so terribly off-model. It's obvious that the animators couldn't understand English, which is particularly noticeable on the notes left by the Mad Bomber - the first note Gordon receives reads "Pay up or ''day'' the consequences", while a flashback mistakenly uses the text from the "real" Mad Bomber instead of the text from the fictional version (i.e. references to the fictional "Piedmont" read "Gotham" instead). Spectrum Animation is credited for the episode, though an Animato Magazine from closer to the production of the episode discusses Dust instead.
** Despite being an excellent episode, ''Harlequinade'' has some Off Model moments that were not ignored by the commentary. Examples include Batman's incredibly pointy pointing fingers, and [http://img816.imageshack.us/img816/9407/leglesspiano.jpg the legless piano player].
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** 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].
** The Sat AM ''[[Sonic
* ''[[Buzz Lightyear of Star Command]]'' was farmed out to different animation studios and can look different every episode. In fact, this was true of most series in the 1990s, not only from Disney but from Warner Bros as well.
* Done intentionally on ''[[The Ren and Stimpy Show]]'', with the characters changing appearance between scenes. It seems to fit the mental instability of the show's cast.
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** It was brought [[Up to Eleven]] with the release of ''Adult Party Cartoon'', where the characters would ''completely'' change appearance scene to scene, [http://i51.tinypic.com/ftj6zd.jpg as seen here] (most prominent with Ren). As [[John Kricfalusi]] put it, "Everybody draws different in Spumco. And we sort of encourage that. Unless you're going to draw wimpy".
** However, the earliest Ren and Stimpy episodes have some geniunely off-model moments, such as one scene where Stimpy inexplicably has pupil eyes for one scene.
* ''[[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
** And speaking of ''[[Gundam Wing]]'', ''that'' series had plenty of its own moments- [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.
** This was more likely because [[They Just Didn't Care]] than anything else, considering how many corners they cut on that show as a whole.
* In an episode of ''[[
** Since there were more than one animation studio working on single episode in the series, this sort of thing was bound to happen often; even TMS Entertainment had their moments (However in TMS's case, it's because of bad outsourcing under their contract).
** To most fans, AKOM and Freelance Animators New Zealand are considered the worst (the former for expected reasons, the latter for its slow melted style).
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** 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]].
** The same thing happens in the first episode (and only the first episode) of Season 3. [[Animation Bump]] really takes over from there on.
** The sequel, ''[[
*** Which co-creator, Bryan Konietzko, [[Crowning Moment of Funny|responded to with]] [http://bryankonietzko.tumblr.com/post/23147508138/ahhh-retakes-if-you-have-been-following-this this Tumblr post.]
* While the USA Network's ''[[Street Fighter]]'' cartoon wasn't known for being [[So Bad It's Good|a paragon of quality]], with character designs changing from episode to episode, occasionally some more typical goofs were made. One case in particular had [[Big Bad|Bison's]] evil grin marred by having his teeth painted the same color as his skin, changing a [[Slasher Smile]] into a really big-lipped smirk.
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** How do we get this far without remembering all the times bart's head would face the other way from his jaw? Eyes on one side, mouth on the other.
** This trope becomes less unexpected when you realize different studios (i.e. the aforementioned AKOM, Rough Draft and [[Anivision]], the last of whom which merged with [[Sunwoo]] in 1999, hence no longer working on the series, probably to focus on [[Family Guy]]) work on the show.
* Happens a lot on ''[[
** The ''Home Sweet Pineapple'' example is one of the most noticeable examples of Off Model. Squidward was drawn normal and proportionate for most of the episode, but the end when he wakes up and goes out to see Spongebob moving away, he becomes HUGE and his legs are giant.
* Although it does not necessarily result in poorer quality, the animation style for '[[Goof Troop]]' varies considerable from time to time. Most noticeably with Pete, whose appearance can change greatly from episode to episode.
* ''[[Captain N:
* ''[[Chip 'n Dale Rescue Rangers (
** And in one scene in the [[Five Episode Pilot]], Gadget's pink nose was BLACK at one point.
* ''[[Darkwing Duck]]'' had the same problems as ''[[Goof Troop]]'' and ''[[
** Not to mention the instances in which Darkwing was miscolored to look like his [[Evil Twin]] Negaduck, like when he is supposed to be the one to escape from the dimensional gateway at the end of "Life, the Negaverse, and Everything".
** His hat also likes to change size a lot.
* ''[[
** About the same way you put three arms on [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T1XZd6HEHNw Paul McCartney].
** The worst offender had to be Black Vulcan. His costume was black and yellow, but exactly which parts were black, which were yellow, and which were exposed flesh literally changed from shot-to-shot within and given episode. Sometimes he would be seen from the front with a yellow neck, then the perspective would change to show him from behind and his neck wouldn't be covered at all. Sometimes he wore tights, sometimes shorts with bare legs. The only thing consistent was that his mouth was flesh colored and the lightning bolts on his mask were (almost) always yellow. And since the character was created for the cartoon, there's no pre-existing material to judge what his costume is ''supposed'' to look like.
* ''[[Phineas and Ferb]]'', like ''[[
** [[Synergy Animation]] (one of said studios) must have really gone off model, because the Yodel Odel Obey Me song was animated in Flash (presumably to replace the off model animation).
** The rest of "Bubble Boys" is quite off model, too, including a frame in which Dr. Doofenschmirtz's hand [[Invisible Anatomy|disappears]].
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* Certain episodes of ''[[The Real Ghostbusters]]''. The DVD sets makes them rather easy to spot. Some episodes -- notably the earlier ones -- came out with moderately good animation ([[KKC and D Asia]]), sometimes gorgeous animation ([[Tokyo Movie Shinsha]]). But when the DVD sets starts getting into showing the much cheaper looking episodes (like from from [[Plus One Animation]] and [[Saerom]] in South Korea), the animation quality really goes to the dogs. And the episode "Station Identification" sees Peter Venkman briefly become blonde in one scene for no very good reason.
** And the earlier episodes didn't always come out looking too hot either. Watch "When Halloween Was Forever," which looks like the Japanese studio out-outsourced it to a really bad Korean sub-subcontractor.
* The 1990s ''[[X-Men (
** Also in the last season, Jubilee's eyes are changed from brown into blue.
* The old 1987 version of ''[[Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 1987
** April seemed to suffer it a lot. At one point, [[Nightmare Fuel|she and a turtle switched faces]]. [[Fetish Fuel|And her boobs seem to change size with every shot.]]
** April's expanding bust was probably more of a way to sneak in some G-Rated [[Fan Service]]. After all, the occasional [[Gainaxing]] that occurred with her breasts definitely wasn't a coincidence.
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* Although it's not as bad as some of the other examples on this page, towards the end of ''[[Lilo and Stitch]]'', Jumba's head seems to keep changing size in different shots.
* This occurs quite a lot in ''[[Street Sharks]]'', particularly between the few times the heroes are human. In one episode, Streex's human design changes [http://www.shadowlordinc.com/tfclip.view?Clip.Id=2271 quite] [http://www.shadowlordinc.com/tfclip.view?Clip.Id=2272 a bit].
* ''[[The Beatles (
** The Beatles cartoon is quite an early example of farming out animation to other studios. Most of the episodes were done in England, but a few were shipped off to be animated in Canada, Holland, and Australia. While the Canadian and Dutch episodes slip off occasionally, the most egregious offenders were the Australians, and for good reason. At the time the cartoons were produced, the Australian animation industry was in its infancy, and its animators ''very'' inexperienced, hence the wobbly drawing-style and frequent off-model nature of the Fab Four in those episodes.
* The ''[[
** One studio, [[Koko Enterprises]], only got one episode: "E Peterbus Unum".
** In general, episodes from the first three seasons contain a good amount of paused single frames, as the outsourced animators did not animate the pauses between phrases and jokes long enough. Some episodes also included sped-up footage for the same reason.
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** In the episode "The Son Also Draws", the boss of the Native American casino has his neck colored differently from the rest of his skin.
** The episode "Back to the Pilot" has Stewie and Brian travel back in time to the pilot episode and make fun at all the animation flaws the show used to have.
* During all of [[Ka Blam!|Henry and June's]] hosted blocks on [[Nickelodeon]], their appearances were a bit off-model. Henry's hair was a bit lower/shorter, and June's ponytail was longer and curvier. Her sweatshirt also didn't have any dots on it like usual, and it was cherry-red instead of red-orange.
** In "A Nut in Every Bite", the kids had very off-model appearances, making them look like anthrophomorphic dogs.
* Has happened several times in ''[[
* One episode of the ''[[The Legend of Zelda (
* Parodied and lampshaded in ''[[
{{quote| '''Freakazoid:''' Oy, let's watch the lip-sync, alright?<br />
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* The original closing sequence of ''[[The Flintstones]]'' shows Wilma asleep in bed...[[Nightmare Fuel|with no mouth!]]
* ''[[Jimmy Two-Shoes]]'': In "Carnival Lucius", after Heloise packs up her model of the carnival, she has two mouths. Also done intentionally in "Hair Brained Idea", where Jimmy's nose moves to the side of his face to make him look more [[Freaky Friday Flip|like Lucius]].
* The ''[[
** 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. [http://sarajaye.superbusnet.com/Pictures/oldband.PNG This scene] from the first episode of ''[[
** 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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** Then the episode "Evil Sits Down for a Moment" where the fairies' arms come off for a frame http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=[[V 2 ozi 7 g 4 xs A]]
* How many fingers does [[Frosty the Snowman]] have?!
* ''[[Star Trek:
* For the ''[[
** In the short "Oily Hare" in one scene where the oil tycoon tells his assistant Maverick to lower him into Bugs' hole his body disappears for a few frames leaving him a talking head.
** In "Rabbit Rampage", the trope is intentionally invoked for laughs as the cartoonist ( {{spoiler|identified at the end as Elmer Fudd}}) insists on drawing Bugs incorrectly to torture him. When he turns Bugs into a horse, Bugs angrily informs him, "Okay, wise guy. My contract SPECIFICALLY says I am always to be drawn AS A RABBIT!" He later draws Bugs as a grotesque caricature of himself, prompting Bugs to comment, "Continue to draw me like this, buddy, and we'll ''both'' be outta work!" When the cartoonist draws him right, Bugs quips, "So I'm me again. What a novel idea. Sure you wouldn't like to turn me into a grasshopper or something? No, no, I take it back!"
* ''[[Rocky and Bullwinkle]]'' was plagued with this throughout its run, as a result of outsourcing to a ''very'' cheap Mexican animation studio. Some have argued that it adds to the show's charm.
* In the ''[[
** Even before having switched from [[Sunwoo]] to Rough Draft Studios, this trope is definitely played straight at times, although it's probably for the same reason as ''[[The Ren and Stimpy Show]]''.
* In the second episode of ''[[
* [[Terry Toons]] animator Jim Tyer is well-known among animation fans for this. His scenes are often considered to be the only good thing about the studio's outputs.
* ''[[
* ''[[
* At the end of ''[[Miscellaneous Disney Shorts|Goliath II]]'', the eponymous elephant is made the new leader of his herd after saving them all from an attacking mouse. As a result, he now rides on his father's head, who is fanning him with a small leaf. However, before that, when we see the elephant herd from the front, Goliath II isn't even on his father's head at all, and his father's trunk in still hanging from the front of his face!
** Earlier in the short, during one of Rajah the tiger's attempts to capture the titular elephant, when we get to see a closeup of his tail, the stripe arrangement is actually reversed (the tip of his tail is now colored orange, usually, it's black).
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* ''[[My Little Pony]]'' had frequent, glaring [[Off-Model]] moments in both the original series and ''Tales''. The most famous is the common error where pegasi were drawn with horns, thus the fandom called them "Unipeg".
** Arguably most of the first two series were [[Off-Model]]. The pilot was rather on-model, and [[The Movie]] (while not to the same extent) was so too.
* ''[[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic
** Since it's made in Flash, layering errors are very common. Cutie Marks appearing on the inside thigh and bits of the background visible through the characters' mouths are two of the more obvious.
** [[Memetic Bystander|Derpy Hooves]] started out as this. She accidentally ended up cross-eyed in one scene of the first episode, which wasn't caught until after the episode aired. Fans quickly latched on to her and she is now more or less the mascot of the [[Periphery Demographic|brony community]]. The creators, delighted with this response, now draw her cross-eyed [[Ascended Meme|intentionally]] and even script her appearances.
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