Animation Changes

**Animation Changes** have taken place throughout the run of *Brim's Room* as the series' visual style has evolved, with character and location designs gradually being changed to either be more detailed or more "accurate" to the animation of a specific era, or sometimes due to technological advancements.

## Animation Evolution

* The pilot episode is very different from the entire series, and looks nothing like it's successors. It is in complete black and white (save for the last minute), was produced in the 16:9 although the final version was 4:3, and has somewhat of a "beginner" look with the crude drawings and such. Thick versions of letters were also used as mouths for some parts of the character's speeches (most notably C) due to not knowing the lip sync mouth for them. This carried over into early production of *Goash*. There is also no "cel animation look" that it carries in the succeeding episodes. That can somewhat also be attributed to the fact that the creator had no idea cel animation even had a specific "look", aside from the brown blacks. ("Goash" originally gone for a mix of Family Guy and early South Park (which technically is also cutout animation), however finding about cel animation made it go for a different look.). However, the character's movements here are still obviously inspired by *South Park*.
* *Goash* is the first episode to not only have color, but to be produced in 4:3 and also imitate the look of cel animation. It only imitated it with a film filter and dropshadows, however, not acknowledging any other detail of cel animation. The dropshadows were made with the pencil tool as there was no way to natively produce proper dropshadows when the animation was first created. However, it was still being produced when proper dropshadows got introduced, resulting in the proper dropshadows being applied over the cheap ones.
* *Boys and Girls* is the first episode to fully use the "proper" dropshadows. Some other parts of cel animation are inherited here, such as the tedency for stills to still slightly move, and paint backgrounds. This is the last episode to use the fill tool to color, which can be seen as the dropshadows are only on the outside of the animation and not inside.
* *Jasper E Chess'es Amusement Park* is mostly the finalized artstyle. A digital oil paint brush is now used to color in the characters, instead of a fill tool. With this in mind, the dropshadow became way smaller as to not draw attention to it. It also makes full use of not just paint backgrounds, but also ones created in Realistic Paint Studio. It is the first for almost all of these and also the first to use Faux Stop Motion (aside from the ice cream truck in *Goash*), albeit it is a bit limited as the stop motion is composed of only one layer that is the same as the cels (which most real stop motion have almost thousands of layers).
* The Season 1 Halloween special goes back to the *Boys and Girls* technique to ease off production.
* The first few episodes of Season 3 not only remove the cel animation filter completely, it's actually altered to look more digital than it already is. It's done as a reference to the popularity of digital animation starting in the 2000s.