Shape-Shifting Cartoon Faves Are Instantly Recognizable Thanks To Their Colors
Image by Dodoconyoyo and featured with permission
There are some cartoon characters that have been with us ever since we can remember, making them impossible to completely forget. Others have become so iconic in their own right that a single glance renders them instantly recognized.
Arguably, the thing that we notice first—and perhaps the thing that triggers the instant recognition—is their color palette. And it’s often how we describe them, too. For example, Winnie-the-Pooh’s design could most easily be described as “a yellow bear with a red shirt.”
Leveraging this idea is design studio Dodoconyoyo, having created the Deconfiguring Cartoons project. Some of the most iconic cartoon characters we know today have been stretched out, looking just like they do when they get steamrolled on-screen.
Looking at the whole picture, you’d be able to guess who’s who because the faces have been retained. But even cropped without the faces, it’s pretty safe to say that the colors alone are enough to jog a memory or two.
As Creative Bloq points out, the way we’re able to pinpoint certain characters by their signature design alone may be the reason it looks so unacceptably strange for them to be in a different outfit, or different colors altogether.
“Cartoons have always been and will be part of our life,” the studio writes of the project. “Since we have reason, their colors were the ones that somehow defined our way of defining combinations in our minds.”
Adidas seems to have this notion down pat, having released sneakers that embody Ned Flanders without ever really mentioning Ned Flanders via—you guessed it—his colors.
[via Creative Bloq, images by Dodoconyoyo and featured with permission]
