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Message: <blockquote data-quote="TwinBahamut" data-source="post: 4874464" data-attributes="member: 32536">You know what, I think I really need to disagree with a couple of the points you make here.I think you are flat out mistaken in saying that western animation faces have facial features in proportion while anime faces have small noses and mouths. In this case, I think it is a lot more fair to say that anime has fairly realistically proportioned noses and mouths (outside of exaggerated expressions, where mouth tend to get much larger than what is realistic). Actually, there are more than a few famous anime characters with ludicrously huge noses, too, especially in older anime classics like Astro Boy or Cyborg 009, or newer anime that is referencing those old classics.On the other hand, I would say that many staples of western animation, like Warner Bros. animation, tend to draw characters with disproportionately huge mouths (in addition to very large eyes!). If you look at them, many Warner Bros. characters have cheekbones that look horribly swollen (much wider than the rest of their head) simply so they can fit their huge mouths on their faces.To a certain extent, I think people tend to recognize anime not because it is stylized, but because it lacks certain stylized elements that you see in western animation. Western animation is defined by characters who are ridiculously misproportioned and highly stylized, whether it is the gigantic head and feet of Mickey Mouse, the tall bodies, big muscles, small heads, and beady eyes of classic superhero animation, or the characters with huge heads and noodle-like limbs from Tim Burton's clay animation like The Nightmare Before Christmas.</blockquote>

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