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| - Faceless masses, as described in the TV Tropes website, is usually what animators resort to when it comes to creating masses of people without needing to go into great detail to depict who those people are, in order to make the story world feel populated.
- Animation is on a very strict timeframe almost all of the time. It's a massive chore trying to get the main characters, their backgrounds, and their actions drawn and colored. One can forgive the animators for skimping on the unnecessary bits... like nine-tenths of the population of the show. The extras in a scene tend to be ridiculously less detailed than all the other characters, if detailed at all. Expect them to lack certain items like facial features, outlines, or limbs. Occasionally, their faces may be Henohenomoheji. Should not be confused with The Faceless, nor with Faceless Goons.
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| - Faceless masses, as described in the TV Tropes website, is usually what animators resort to when it comes to creating masses of people without needing to go into great detail to depict who those people are, in order to make the story world feel populated. In both the Smurf comic books and the cartoon show, the identical appearances of most of the Smurfs in general, coupled with the fact that most of the unnamed Smurfs are simply called Smurf, serve this function, with creators of the stories being able to bring in characters from among the 100 Smurfs in the village to become prominent for a while or be the focus character of the story and then easily write them out without having them remain a permanent part of the overall cast. This can serve to eliminate characters that end up becoming unpopular with the fanbase. However, it should be noted that, due to the limits of cartoon animation at the time the Smurfs cartoon show was produced, the overall number of Smurfs that appear in a collected crowd can seem lower than 100. Sometimes the lower number is justified by the story itself limiting the number of prominent characters in it with some anonymous characters thrown in. This problem was most likely rectified with the use of CGI animation in the 2011 Smurfs movie.
- Animation is on a very strict timeframe almost all of the time. It's a massive chore trying to get the main characters, their backgrounds, and their actions drawn and colored. One can forgive the animators for skimping on the unnecessary bits... like nine-tenths of the population of the show. The extras in a scene tend to be ridiculously less detailed than all the other characters, if detailed at all. Expect them to lack certain items like facial features, outlines, or limbs. Occasionally, their faces may be Henohenomoheji. But who cares? They're just there to keep the world from feeling deserted. This is an Animation Tropes, but tends to be more noticeable in anime. Contrast with Eccentric Townsfolk, where they all get at least one quirk, or Cast of Snowflakes, where even one-shot extras get detailed faces. Should not be confused with The Faceless, nor with Faceless Goons. Can easily fall into horror, although savvy animators will take advantage of this depending on the mood of the show. Examples of Faceless Masses include:
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