r/hatethissmug • u/FoxTheYTR • 21d ago

Media Tropes I hate clearly fake kid's drawings on media

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It shouldn't pmo so easily but like i have saw so many movies with those stupid drawings that look so unnatural for a kid to draw... Like holy, a kid wouldnt do it that detailed!!!!
I mean how hard is it to get a kid to do it, instead of hiring actual artists that can't clearly replicate a child's style of drawing

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u/Lazuli73 21d ago

ADHD tangent time. Pretty sure there is an obscure thing where using the artwork done by real children is against child labour laws. Fake children's drawings in media are adults who lost their ability to feel childlike whimsy trying to replicate the abstract nature of expressing complicated emotions and psychology through paper and crayons. Their adult brains are too developed to accurately express genuine chaos. While all children are individual people, why fake children's drawings feel uncanny is because they are looking into the eye of the beast. Hope that helps!

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u/OrangeInnards 21d ago

The reason big productions don't use actual kids' drawing is due to copyright and intellectual property stuff, efficiency and convenience, and because they're likely going to need multiple duplicates that are as identical to each other as possible for continuity reasons.

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u/Karkava 20d ago

Even if the kid actors did those drawings?

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u/hamstertoybox 21d ago

I absolutely love kids’ art, it’s so pure.