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Timm Style is a style of animation that has recently been gaining popularity. Characters are drawn with fairly realistic proportions and small eyes all round (though villains' eyes may still be slightly narrower than those of the heroes). People are drawn with lots of straight lines rather than curves, which makes them look rather angular.

This style tends to be used in action series, so characters and clothing will usually be drawn with just a few colours, simple shading and minimal textures to make them easier to animate.

This wiki commonly misuses the term Animesque to refer to these, though there is occasional overlap.

It is named for Bruce Timm, an artist and animator for DC Comics who uses this style. As a result, it's quite common in animated adaptations of DC properties, like the DCAU and DC Universe Original Animated Movies.

Examples of Timm Style include:

• DCAU:
  • Batman the Animated Series
  • Superman the Animated Series
  • Batman Beyond
  • The Zeta Project
  • Static Shock
  • Justice League
• Other DC Comics adaptations:
  • Young Justice
  • Green Lantern: The Animated Series adapts this style to CGI.
• Galactik Football
• Huntik
• Legend of the Dragon
• Zorro: Generation Z
• The Hellboy OAVs.
• Gargoyles
• The Big O
• Storm Hawks
• World of Quest
• Night Hood
• Captain Hero in Drawn Together is drawn in this style, as part of being a parody of Superman.
• Young Justice
• The Legend of Calamity Jane
• Freakazoid!
• Roswell Conspiracies: Aliens, Myths and Legend
• Avengers Earths Mightiest Heroes
• Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 2003
• The comic series Powers
• Mortal Kombat Defenders of the Realm
• The Direct to Video animated movie Turok: Son of Stone
• The Gen 13 movie.