Liminal Spaces in CARTOONS🌌
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Published 2023-06-27
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I feel like gumball has a lot of liminal spaces.
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I love how they can make you feel nostalgic, they have a special place in the back of my brain
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I think liminal spaces are intentional, like they are created to make you feel something. For example, a cozy living room makes the audience feel a sense of nostalgia whereas a cryptic background instills a sense of dread. In this way, liminal spaces serve as a form of visual rhetoric. Pretty neat!
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Dude courage the cowardly dog has always made me feel scared or panicked. That’s definitely the most BACKROOMS
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That one episode of spongebob where squidward uses a time machine... both the future and the past sceneries always felt very eerie to me
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Spongebobs background used to scare me a bit as a kid. It was always voids or places that felt wrong. I feel like gravity falls was one of the first cartoons to really change that. Instead of feeling like characters on a drawn to look like theyre in the world the characters actually interacted with the world and felt like a part of it
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Mrs Puff’s never-ending portrait in Spongebob is so liminal too!
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for me, the most liminal cartoon place is of course, the house in the middle of nowhere in Courage the Cowardly Dog.
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Prismo from adventure time in the backrooms XD
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My thought on liminal spaces is the thought of being by yourself but not being alone.
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The Tom and jerry living room shots hit me with a load of nostalgia, I had totally forgotten there were just these random shots In between of just a vacant older looking home
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Only comes in my head is Oggy's house of Oggy and the Cockroaches, my personal favorite
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Oggy and the cockroaches has great representations of liminal spaces, it's one of my fav cartoons too! 💙
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Oggy's house left the chat:
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Super Mario 64 too
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Liminal spaces definitely have that repetition that you see in looping background animations. But, for real origins, the rabbit hole goes way farther... like, ever seen Terry Gilliam's Brazil? It has some crazy dreamlike Brutalist architecture. And some Surrealists had some real limbo vibes too
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Same thoughts. I'm an animator and I noticed that most of the times I made liminal space backgrounds without the characters. And I realized that maybe we think that Liminal space photos (real image) are very nostalgic and we can't explain the feeling is because we can't go back to the time where we are so excited to roam that liminal space. For sure if we still a kid we will be running and jump/play on that places
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Wow this is so cool, I never even thought about this!
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You Should do out Oggy and The Cockroaches (especially it's early seasons) it's the perfect example of liminal space. The vast, sometimes almost empty backgrounds feel so surreal and sometimes the wait of the music adds to that mysteriousness. It's a French Cartoon that aired on Guli France & Boomerang in Europe, Middle Eas, Africa and Australia/NZ.
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Yo CN city's silent bumpers DID have a liminal space vibe...
