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Timm Style

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Timm Style is a style of animation. Characters are drawn with fairly realistic, though somewhat exaggerated, proportions and small eyes all round (though villains' eyes may still be slightly narrower than those of the heroes). People are drawn with lots of straight lines rather than curves, which makes them look rather angular. From 1996 forward, male characters, especially those who are meant to be very muscular like Batman or Superman, tended to be drawn with large upper body mass while having rather thin legs.
This style tends to be used in action series, so characters and clothing will usually be drawn with just a few colours, simple shading and minimal textures to make them easier to animate.
Among the artistic influences Timm has cited for this style are Chester Gould's Dick Tracy (look at Batman's jaw!), and Dan DeCarlo's style of drawing pretty girls in Archie Comics as well as his less innocent pin-up style works. Alex Toth used a similar style during his days at Hanna-Barbera.
This wiki commonly misuses the term Animesque to refer to these, though there is occasional overlap. For a quick little reminder, think of faces. While Animesque may increase eye size, Timmstyle will choose simpler features (in fact, Skintone Sclerae and Black Bead Eyes are quite common in Timmstyle works). Pretty much faces are different, bodies are the same when comparing these two styles.
It is named for Bruce Timm, an artist and animator for DC Comics who uses this style. As a result, it's quite common in animated adaptations of DC properties, particularly the DC Animated Universe and occasionally DC Universe Animated Original Movies.
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The Zeta Project
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Samurai Jack
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Code Name: S.T.E.A.M: Bruce Timm was explicitly named as an influence for the comic-book art style.
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Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2003)
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DC Animated Universe:
Batman: The Animated Series
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DrakeOfThe99Dragons: the game uses an art-style inspired by Bruce Timm's.
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And related, being they shared a character designer, X-Men: Evolution features a similar style, though notably rounder and slightly more detailed then usual.
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Ben 10: Alien Force
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Freakazoid! which was co-created by Timm but was abandoned after creative differences
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Static Shock
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Batman: The Brave and the Bold
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Star Wars: The Clone Wars (especially in its pilot movie and first six seasons) is a rare example of being CGI-animated with a mixture of animesque and Timm-influenced character designs.
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World of Quest
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Superman: The Animated Series
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Justice League: Gods and Monsters
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The Gen¹³ movie.
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The Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes and its predecessor Wolverine and the X-Men (2009).
And related, being they shared a character designer, X-Men: Evolution features a similar style, though notably rounder and slightly more detailed then usual.
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Batman Beyond
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Hellboy Animated
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Roswell Conspiracies: Aliens, Myths and Legends
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Jackie Chan Adventures, which shared a character designer with the aforementioned The Batman.
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MultiVersus: Superman and Batman are portrayed this way.
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Storm Hawks
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Huntik
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The Mummy: The Animated Series
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Green Lantern: The Animated Series and Beware the Batman adapt this style to CGI.
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Gargoyles
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The Big O is a rare anime example of this trope; the character designs take a lot of cues from Bruce Timm's art style, and Roger himself greatly resembles Bruce Wayne. Fittingly, Sunrise (the studio behind the anime) was a subcontractor for Batman: The Animated Series, the most well-known example of the trope and a major influence on the series as a whole.
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Transformers: Prime, a natural consequence of mixing the art styles of the movies and the last cartoon.
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Teen Titans (2003)
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Night Hood
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Legion of Super Heroes (2006)
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Batman: The Animated Series
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Powers
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Mortal Kombat: Defenders of the Realm
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The Spectacular Spider-Man
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Skullgirls: Character designer Alex Ahad cited Bruce Timm and Mike Mignola (among several others) as influences on his style in this post.
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Legend Of The Dragon
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Ben 10: Ultimate Alien
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Young Justice (2010)
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Transformers: Animated
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When portrayed in a two-dimensional manner, such as during end credits, The Incredibles bear this style simplified.
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The Legend of Calamity Jane
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Zorro: Generation Z
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Extreme Ghostbusters
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Star Wars: Clone Wars
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Mortal Kombat Legends: Scorpion's Revenge and its sequel use this style like the below-mentioned cartoon series, only they're much Truer to the Text.
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Ben 10: Omniverse
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The Batman
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Captain Hero in Drawn Together is drawn in this style, as part of being a parody of Superman.
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Hercules and Xena – The Animated Movie: The Battle for Mount Olympus was an early adapter of this style
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Men in Black: The Series
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 Hercules and Xena – The Animated Movie: The Battle for Mount Olympus / int_a752d797
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 Huntik: Secrets & Seekers / int_a752d797
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 Ivanhoe: The King's Knight / int_a752d797
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 Justice League Action / int_a752d797
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 Justice League vs. The Fatal Five / int_a752d797
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 Night Hood / int_a752d797
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 Rescue Heroes / int_a752d797
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 Roswell Conspiracies: Aliens, Myths and Legends / int_a752d797
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 Storm Hawks / int_a752d797
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