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Is there a term for this very particular "type" of animation?
When you see an animated show and there is something, usually an article of clothing being worn by one of the characters, and that article of clothing has a pattern of some sort on it. Then when the character moves (and the clothing moves with it), unlike in real life where the pattern would move in relation to the clothing on which it was printed, just the outline of the clothing moves, but the pattern stays still. It’s as if you had dressed someone in mirrored clothing and peeked at them over a patterened wall.
I remember first seeing this many years ago on Looney Tunes, but now the one show that employs this all the time is called Chowder. If you look up a clip from that show and watch the clothing of any one of the characters, you’ll see what I mean if you can’t conceptualize it.
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