Recently I was introduced to a children's TV show from the seventies, called Bod.
I've fallen a bit in love with Bod, perhaps due to the poor quality of the animation. It was the 1970s so I can forgive. But the character design is something else. The blocky bodies, the little legs, the basic colours. It is so wrong, yet there is something so strangely appealing about it.
And if we move onto the animation, there is an absolute disregard for all of the principles of animation 80% of the time. Look at those hats fly up in surprise! With absolutely no easing in, nor easing out! But again, there is something oddly charming about it.
Solid weight? Never heard of her. Look at these guys go!
What is really impressive is how, maybe once every episode or so, there is a bit of actually good animation. Like their whole budget for the episode goes on a bird flying away, or a letter on the breeze beautifully flapping, and the rest of the episode was animated by poor animation students paid in biscuits.
Still, I have an affinity for Bod and the poor animation. It is almost charming, and goes to show that you don't need a whole lot of complex scenery or animation to create something that warms the cockles of your heart.
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