Car-toon-y, adj. - Having the style of a cartoon.
Car·toon, n
1. a simple drawing showing the features of its subjects in a humorously exaggerated way, especially a satirical one in a newspaper or magazine.
2. a motion picture using animation techniques to photograph a sequence of drawings rather than real people or objects.
I'm not really sure what people mean by cartoony. Cartoons aren't necessarily beholden to one art style. I can think of several "dark and gritty" cartoons. Video games are by and large animated. They are interactive cartoons in the meaning of the second definition of cartoon above. If you draw a distinction be "animated feature" and "cartoon," then the distinction is cartoons involves flat, hand-drawn artwork. I don't think the Wild Hunt images look flat or hand drawn. I guess my point is that I would like a clearer explanation of the the complaint is before I know if I agree with it. If it's not the less grey color pallet, and it's not that it looks like a cartoon, then what is it? Thanks to OliverDK for explaining his opinion clearly. I see what you mean and expect their to be locations that represent those screenshots you prefer. However I think there is going to be a lot of variety.
Car·toon, n
1. a simple drawing showing the features of its subjects in a humorously exaggerated way, especially a satirical one in a newspaper or magazine.
2. a motion picture using animation techniques to photograph a sequence of drawings rather than real people or objects.
I'm not really sure what people mean by cartoony. Cartoons aren't necessarily beholden to one art style. I can think of several "dark and gritty" cartoons. Video games are by and large animated. They are interactive cartoons in the meaning of the second definition of cartoon above. If you draw a distinction be "animated feature" and "cartoon," then the distinction is cartoons involves flat, hand-drawn artwork. I don't think the Wild Hunt images look flat or hand drawn. I guess my point is that I would like a clearer explanation of the the complaint is before I know if I agree with it. If it's not the less grey color pallet, and it's not that it looks like a cartoon, then what is it? Thanks to OliverDK for explaining his opinion clearly. I see what you mean and expect their to be locations that represent those screenshots you prefer. However I think there is going to be a lot of variety.
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