Style
The series is done in a style reminiscent of manga. A favored technique of McConville is to draw the line art on paper and color the characters in Adobe Photoshop after scanning. Characters are often highly detailed while backgrounds, painted directly in Photoshop, are often blurry. The series has gone through a handful of changes in its style, however—early episodes had a style to it that did not look similar to manga, but more like western comic strips; backgrounds were also more concrete. Over time, this changed to the manga-like style that has become the norm of the series, as well as the digitally painted backgrounds. The super deformed effect that has its origins in manga also became a regular part of the style. The characters in the series lost their black outlines over time, and were later drawn entirely without them.
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