>>128325668I'll just say that there ain't nothin wrong with simple cartoon designs in general. The 50s and 60s were full a shows and commercials with wonderful efforts from animators that already had decades of experience and knew how to work in little time and with little money. The first five years of Hanna-Barbera stuff, animated ads, the 60s Peanuts specials, UPA, and so on. The shapes are simple, but they're also organic. Modern cartoons are too obsessed with geometric perfection and symmetry, so everything looks sterile. My absolute biggest pet peeve with any cartoon, with almost no exceptions, are characters with perfectly round eyes.
When I first saw the Louds' designs, I was impressed. I heard the show's look was inspired by old comic strips. I got my hopes up and thought maybe the style was broad enough to include characters whose designs were inspired by those strips. Popeye, Alley Oop, Blondie, Garfield, etc, but that wasn't the case. It was a little splash of Cliff Sterett for the scenery and that was it. And then on top a that the show's writin is abysmal, even by kids' cartoon standards.