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Let’s Talk About the Design of PPG's Humans

AKA the Citizens of Townsville.

Continuing the series of talking about PPG 1998 design elements from when I talked about the backgrounds and world design of PPG, Let’s take a greater focus on human characters.

  A reminder, The powerpuff girls and many cartoons from their era were inspired by the UPA style of animation from the 1950s. I recently discovered a good write up about how this style influenced shows like the Powerpuff Girls from an animation Blog that you can take a gander at here.

That being said, when it comes to the humans of the PPG world they continue to use a strong, sharp geometric style that stands out. It’s been stated before that the humans were intentionally designed this way along with the rest of the PPG world to make the Powerpuff Girls stick out even more with how round they are.

Fortunately I managed to gather a bunch of episode sheets for background characters from Season 1 of Powerpuff Girls. So let’s study them so we can better understand their design.

Now, when I say the characters are “Geometric,” I mean that they are largely defined by simple shapes. Circles, Squares, and Triangles.

If we look at these three incidentals. We can see that they defined by large shapes, accented with smaller shapes within to make their design. Their eyes are often circles. Their heads could be circles, squares or even sharp triangles. Each of these gives these incidental characters a sense of personality even if we only see them on screen for one scene.

Notice how even their poses can be defined by simple shapes. They re snappy with details that are easy to notice even from a distance away.

We can even see this with the secondary and main humans.

The Professor is made up of mostly squares and rectangles. As he is often the rock, the foundation and source of stability for the girls.

Ms. Keane is rounder, predominated by ovals. Her body is one solid oval, and her overall look makes her appear very friendly, the kind of person you’d want to see being a teacher to young children.

The Mayor is round as well, but  his ovals make him look more portly. Someone you could see being a jolly and equally bumbling fellow.

Ms. Bellum is both sharp and round. From her legs to her arms and her hips. The balance between the two shapes make her a more dynamic character. One who is friendly to the girls, dry to the mayor, and has even stood her own in a few fights.

These are all important ideas to keep in mind, as the Powerpuff Girls world isn’t normally full of PPGs like the girls. It’s full of these geometric, yet diverse humans!

I’ve kept this in mind when designing Tara, Chris, Kevin, and Nancy. Some of my Human PPG OCs. Trying to give them a distinct look, one that can tell you about their personalities at a glance.

Tara is tall and round, friendly but tends to worry and fret as most of the sharper parts of her design are around her head. Chris is short, round, but largely in a squarish shape to show they are the more grounded of the two. Kevin is largely rectangular with some odd round shapes to show he’s strong but kind.  Nancy is mostly round, with some rectangular and pointed shapes to show she’s equal parts friendly and dynamic. Perhaps Sassy?

In conclusion. Main, Secondary, Incidental, or otherwise, the way a character is built is an important aspect to their design.

We as humans tend to associate certain shapes with certain things, and the artists and designers took advantage of that when emulating the UPA style. Giving Townsville a very visually diverse, yet easy to visually read an identify population

A useful thing to keep in mind whether you’re a fan who creates content or a casual appreciator of cartoons, and I encourage those who have taken the time to read this to be observant in what goes into a character’s design. What shapes can you identify? What is it about a character’s shape or look that makes them visually distinct? As while even an incidental character could only appear once and never again, it’s important to consider how they might look in a scene, in  crowd, and how that look serves the media they come from.

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just dudes being guys

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I laughed so fucking hard at this

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Design graphics Geya Shvecova (Into transparency) Archive_090625

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Happy 15th anniversary L4D2 lalala

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happy pride

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🌈💙🩵 It's been 6 yrs since my last MTA, How time flies!! 💚💛🧡

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Please, do not ignore my story💔😭

I am Rania Mahmoud, 30 years old. I live in Gaza City. I am married and have two children. I support my children and my family. My father and mother are elderly. I lost my home and was displaced more than once. Every time, I was escaping death amidst the screams of my children under war and death. I currently live in a tent in the heat of the summer and the cold of the winter.💔 Life is very difficult, like hell. I need to buy milk, diapers, food and drink for my children. I need your help to save my family and children from the war of extermination in Gaza.💔 I want them to live in safety, so I ask you to extend a helping hand to save them from death so that I can get them out of Gaza safely to obtain a safer life for them.💔😭

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*Dr Doofenshmietz gestures at an empty area*

“BEHOLD THE PROCRASTINATOR!”

*empty area*

“I haven’t built it yet”

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Drew anotha one.

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Actor Jonathan Joss was just murdered for being gay and married to a trans man. On the first day of pride 2025. He was best known for playing John Redcorn on King of the Hill. He was proudly indigenous, often playing indigenous roles. He was Comanche and white mountain apache.

I had no idea he was gay but he was married to a man named Tristan Kern de Gonzales (on valentines day 2025!)

They lived in San Antonio Texas where his family is from and he grew up. He was 59.

In Janurary 2025 his home was burned down which made news. It killed some of his beloved dogs. He didnt elaborate beyond he believed it was arson (gofundme is still up and i suggest donating to help his funeral costs and his husband

Update: de Gonzales says hes fine he just wants justice but i still think its nice)

Now we know he and his husband had been threatened by several neighbors for being queer. They told pigs, pigs being pigs did nothing before or after it happened.

Yesterday Joss and his husband went to check their mailbox wherein they found one of their dogs skulls (statement from his husband

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As they weeped and mourned in shock, a neighbor, Sigfredo Alvarez Ceja, came out and aimed at de Gonzales…but Joss jumped in front of the bullet and was instantly killed.

Ceja, homophobia murdering coward, tried to take off but de Gonzales had called pigs who vaguely tried to do something. He was arrested and his bail set for $200k. Or as my sister said who the fuck sets bail for a murderer?

San Antonio.

De Gonzales is clearly mourning, posting pics on Hoss’ fb page. This one really struck me

This is why we need pride people, and not rainbow capitalism. Please donate to the gofundme and let san antonio cops knows what you think. De Gonzales said multiple neighbors had threatened them…id like to see those people investigated for arson.

Go into pride with rage and knowing. Have joy, kiss puppies, dont bow to homophobes. And maybe enjoy a little king of the hill.

UPDATE

Jonathan Joss’ husband Tristan kern de Gonzales identifies as trans on his facebook page.

Which explains the ramp up of hate and why the murderer shot at de Gonzales (Joss pushed him out of the way). So this is also a transphobia related murder

The media and pigs are breaking their backs to not say queer. The local bews segment was stunning in its washing of the motive. Good news tho: the gofundme is funded!!!

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silly ushiten from my sketchbook <3 <3 yap yap yap

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the interview question was can you draw your spouse from memory? + bonus iwaizumi

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Urgent Emergency!! 🚨🚨🚨

Eileen and her family have come under attack by Israeli occupation forces (the Israeli army)❗

The occupation forces are currently bombing the area with gas canisters, and it is likely that they will begin shooting or shelling at any moment! 😞💔

The family is trying to escape, but three of its members suffer from physical disabilities. Adam, her 13-year-old son, has a head condition that limits his mobility.

Ala'a, her 20-year-old daughter, is unable to use her leg due to a previous injury caused by an earlier attack by the occupation forces. 💔

As for Eileen herself, she suffers from severe back pain, which makes it very difficult for her to move. 💔

Shaimaa, her 18-year-old daughter, is doing everything she can to help the family escape. 🥹💔

Eileen’s father, , lives with them in the tent.

He is 70 years old and sustained serious injuries during the war ، He has diabetes and was injured in a nearby bombing, which resulted in damage to his chest, shoulder, and right eye. He is in dire need of urgent surgery to regain his sight in it again.

Her mother She lost her life due to lack of treatment and hunger, as she was a cancer patient. May God protect us and you.

The family urgently needs transportation to escape, but it costs around $904 USD.

The situation is extremely dangerous and sensitive! We don’t know what the occupation forces are planning, and any delay could be fatal! 💔

Please share the family’s campaign and donate if you can! 🙏🏻💔💔

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Hello I’ve drawn about 30000 more bits of Lillian/Fairy Godmother art and there has been insanely good 3 fics written about it (here and here).

So in this au its just shrek 2 but they dated when they were younger but only stopped due to their life going different directions so there’s a whole bunch of unresolved feelings still. There’s like 787987 more layers to this whole set up but I dont want to make this a 3 page description lmao. Thers a few notes in the picture titles !

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