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Glaringly obvious animation mistakes that animators couldn't be bothered to fix
by /u/tugboattommy | 112 comments | 2026-06-17T04:26:14+00:00 Central
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Aragorn trips on his own sword in the rotoscoped
1978 Lord of the Rings
A whole scene is unrendered in an episode of The
Garfield Show
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| /u/CrashLove37 X-Men the Animated Series https://preview.redd.it/z376q308wr7h1.jpeg?width=515&fo rmat=pjpg&auto=webp&s=9765defa1ecde014b55632c398addf7238 33db31 |
| /u/Wingnutmcmoo Sick album cover tho |
| /u/BullioMarf I've never seen this. Is it from the premiere that had a whole host of production issues? |
| /u/Buttholelickerpenis This is from the Disney Plus version, which notoriously sourced episodes from the absolute shittiest sources it could. No one bothered quality checking before release. This was not in the original broadcast nor any known DVD releases. |
| /u/Mundane_Existence0 Imagine a timeline where they cared enough and recognized how culturally important the series was, that it was properly remastered and looked amazing just like the cels (see image), instead of..... that. Sucks that the DVDs are pretty poor quality as well. https://preview.redd.it/p1d95qx9es7h1.png?width=900&for mat=png&auto=webp&s=26ccebf0639dd911ba9bf2e3c89f99c4ee4e 1d99 |
| /u/RockHandsomest Comics have weird things too, behold Wolvies leg on this cover https://preview.redd.it/jvz4z87bqs7h1.jpeg?width=629&fo rmat=pjpg&auto=webp&s=846a31070981ebd49c881acfddcb4204c5 891b53 |
| /u/Salty_Tank9828 That's honestly wild... imagine paying for a streaming service and getting the "worst possible version" of the show Disney+ really dropped the ball on that one. |
| /u/LoganCube400 https://i.redd.it/jov9mtlnur7h1.gif |
| /u/burlapguy Is that a tyrannosaur eating vegetables? How did such a mistake get past the editors? |
| /u/Tricky_Fail1706 Also the Triceratops bites the table and is happily following the Tyrannosaurus rex. They should be ACTIVELY AVOIDING each other. A fight is too risky for either of them. If the Triceratops gores the Tyrannosaurus rex with its mighty horns or the Tyrannosaurus bites down and injures the Triceratops with its bone crushing jaws, either wound could get infected and spell a death sentence |
| /u/Small-Help1801 T. rex actively predated on triceratops. (I only correct you so that you can now imagine them fighting) Here is a thread discussing it with sources https://www.reddit.com/r/Paleontology/comments/1mtk1px/w hat_evidence_is_there_that_trex_and_triceratops/ |
| /u/MostBoringStan Especially when it was a zombie t-rex like a true historical account that I recently read. And by read I mean listened to the audiobook. |
| /u/jamesxgames all these Jurassic movies and we still haven't gotten that fight on screen. ridiculous |
| /u/whilecouch66 https://giphy.com/gifs/11FiDF2fuOujPG |
| /u/Buccura Hope someone got fired for THAT blunder! |
| /u/amacias2012 I hope someone got fired for that blunder! |
| /u/sensitiveskin82 They were cooked in beef tallow |
| /u/Kryptosis Crazy how on first watch I didn't see 4/6 of the egregiousness though. |
| /u/Wingnutmcmoo All I see is cobra being considerate and moving the tables out of the way for the dinos and the dinos shutting the door because they weren't born in a barn |
| /u/Anxious_Visual_6632 A guy loses his legs while running away |
| /u/Simbertold That sort of thing happens when running from a T-Rex. |
| /u/Naps_And_Crimes To be more accurate that sort of thing happens when you stop running from a t Rex |
| /u/Anxious_Visual_6632 He also gains altitude |
| /u/Bodkin-Van-Horn The dinos also quickly rebuilt the wall that they accidentally destroyed. So considerate! |
| /u/AcrolloPeed Drywallersaurus and Frameratops |
| /u/BK_0000 You can't expect a toy commercial to have high production values. |
| /u/Rubmynippleplease This looks like a 2024 AI video |
| /u/MysteriousTBird Oh I think I see it now. The triceratops has no teeth in the find shot. |
| /u/naziryoutube Was early ai video generation using this as their reference? |
| /u/Croconoceros In Dexter's Lab there's a scene inside a Chuck E Cheese parody. After the performance, a part of the crowd flies away. Allegedly Rob Renzetti wrote on the storyboard that the crowd "takes off" which the Korean animators took literally. https://youtu.be/2NWQCpLmMvk?is=cfrfX6fa6QW3yvh_ https://i.redd.it/gm3jh3xb1s7h1.gif |
| /u/wolfmaskman I think this whole episode can be explained away as a fever dream Dexter was having. I was waiting for something to post this lol |
| /u/Ambitious-Speech4674 dexter's fever dream explanation is brilliant! lmao |
| /u/Bamzooki1 I love that they just kept it for absurdist humor |
| /u/PeggableOldMan Even added a sound effect |
| /u/RogueNightingale I always assumed it was because he lost his glasses so nothing looked right. |
| /u/Kater5551StarsAbove https://preview.redd.it/pb2t4fqffs7h1.png?width=640&form at=png&auto=webp&s=5faf37201e0f3886ed10f6ae65a91114f9747 3a6 |
| /u/ConsiderationTrue477 https://preview.redd.it/18hpvrvd1s7h1.jpeg?width=594&for mat=pjpg&auto=webp&s=8de3054afb825aaa4dceb20552443cf4b72 3765c Mega Man has this locked down. That show must have an average of about 10 animation errors per episode. And not just small ones but glaring ones. Some episodes were good but others were a complete mess. Pic related isn't even the worst example. |
| /u/Arbusc He's just copying Out-of-Frame Man. His power is really good against Off-Model Man. |
| /u/spacebuggles Surely the first one was left in on purpose, because it added to the tension of the chase or something? I'm more bothered that their pathing is so suboptimal 😄 |
| /u/Dazzling-Low8570 They definitely shot them running "around" something without thinking about the fact that if they put that thing in in the animation it would block the view. |
| /u/Giogina Could've made the thing a lake or hole |
| /u/Dazzling-Low8570 It looks bad enough that Aragorn trips in what I guess must have been the only usable shot. Now you want him to trip right next to a giant pit? |
| /u/bama501996 I must be slow, bc I still can't see how its an animation error. |
| /u/MostBoringStan It's not. OP doesn't understand what an error is. |
| /u/aFreshFix They literally chose to animate a "blunder" that was filmed live. |
| /u/TheGreatDay They were drawing over actors who had shot the scene. Actor tripped and they weren't about to go ad shoot the scene again. There's a lot of funny stuff in this version on Lord of the rings. |
| /u/OkContact2573 Like what? Like you can't just say that and not continue... |
| /u/avanti8 Ralph Bakshi's Lord of the Rings, I think it's something one needs to experience to understand. The whole thing is just... Something. |
| /u/Germerica1985 I have a life long memory of being 9 years old with the flu and a very high fever. I was laying in my mother's bed and watching TV and this version of LotR came on Cartoon Network. I still don't know how much was fever dreams or actual show but watching this in that condition was one hell of an experience.... It was awesome, it was like doing drugs |
| /u/PlutoniumBoss That's what pretty much everything Bakshi did is like. He was so high directing them you get a secondhand buzz just watching them. |
| /u/Germerica1985 For sure. But I'm telling you, you know how when you are really sick, the days don't exist anymore you are just kind of coming in and out of reality, having weird thoughts, just a weird 72 hours. Watching this Cartoon during this condition, it's wild man. Would actually recommend it! |
| /u/IolausTelcontar The word you're looking for is awesome. |
| /u/just_a_person_maybe When I was a kid I thought it was hilarious that Aragorn ran around without pants on. I don't think any of the Men did. It was never explained, they just have no pants. |
| /u/Nom-De-Tomado I was going to say, it's not really an animation error if the actor trips and they still rotoscope it. The animation team is doing what they're supposed to. |
| /u/KvasirsBlod Perfectly, too. You can see the scabbard bend ever so slightly when the tip touches the ground |
| /u/nimbalo200 Nope, just too cheap to re-record the scene and so the animators used what they had |
| /u/Iconclast1 to cheap to record someone running again? but not too cheap to spend days animating it? |
| /u/geek_of_nature Yeah it would be more that they found it so hilarious that they chose to keep it in for that reason. |
| /u/konydanza https://preview.redd.it/0w6ooozy3s7h1.jpeg?width=1080&fo rmat=pjpg&auto=webp&s=973d4d54a8301bafec65c939f3a46fd1c3 1d1968 That time Invincible magically turned into InvinciPaul for a couple frames |
| /u/JooAssaasin https://preview.redd.it/c1mrpuv78s7h1.jpeg?width=498&for mat=pjpg&auto=webp&s=a4a4f879f546d4731b10e6d1a6f90ab4087 3fcd3 |
| /u/No-Ambition-9051 That's the stunt double. |
| /u/Arbusc Given the show has addressed off model moments I almost wonder if this was intentional, and if there are other moments like it. |
| /u/Assortedwrenches89 Jurassic Park - For 1 frame during the climax, when the T. Rex attacks the Raptors in the Welcome Center, the raptor in her mouth disappears. |
| /u/kkeut there are also several errors with the raptors in the kitchen scene, where the cgi layer isn't properly. most noticeable with the feet, when jumping on the counter or knocking things over |
| /u/Klin24 https://preview.redd.it/w0fcmkj1ps7h1.png?width=1882&for mat=png&auto=webp&s=48fb6279e8b918ca27e8a6cb6a7136625e1c 4520 |
| /u/Klin24 https://preview.redd.it/00199oy3ps7h1.png?width=1901&for mat=png&auto=webp&s=05a52ac74660b1c1ca738dcf3619e2ce3ccd dc0b |
| /u/AstroTrain4412 https://preview.redd.it/m11685h9wr7h1.jpeg?width=1334&fo rmat=pjpg&auto=webp&s=1385405acca507bc2c64bfbb6cc36f200f 6c2ae9 One too many Zoros got lost in this scene. (One Piece) |
| /u/Ok_Space93 He got lost and wandered into his own scene |
| /u/Rejukem Zoro and Ryoga are the Lost Kings of Anime |
| /u/Aramis14 https://giphy.com/gifs/2pgrSzFEJjzk0Vk1n4 |
| /u/key-slinger Yeah this guy walked out of the ocean somehow bet he finds his way to the distortion realm while trying to get water at night |
| /u/LG3V So bad at directions that a taxi driver gets lost trying to transport him |
| /u/Last_Nothing_4352 Nah, that's just his twin, Zoronoa Rozo; he's been there since Enies Lobby |
| /u/GJR78 The Lord of the Rings one isn't a "couldn't be bothered to fixed" it's rotoscoped and during the scene the Aragorn actor tripped and they decided it's funny to leave it in, they deliberately traced over that guy tripping. |
| /u/MrXilas It's this movie's version of Viggo breaking his toe. |
| /u/OoT-TheBest Did you know that in his attempt to break a toe, he accidentally kicked a helmet? |
| /u/anono227 After the first take, the helmet, who knew what screaming when breaking your toes with a kick sounded like, taught Viggo how to do it. |
| /u/tntexplosivesltd Imagine accidentally rotoscoping a full scene |
| /u/Few-Improvement-5655 You don't just accidentally animate a man tripping on his scabbard. |
| /u/IfusasoToo One does not simply* |
| /u/Bamzooki1 Seven does not simply eat nine |
| /u/Ptalking_Ptarmigan The rotoscoping animators did exactly as they were told. They weren't paid enough to fix the mistake from the film crew. |
| /u/AdaptEvolveBecome Yeah. I gotta agree with everyone saying that it's not a mistake. I love that moment for the fact that it feels pretty real, even for a fantasy universe. |
| /u/Backstreetgirl37 "Ah shit not again!" |
| /u/SRSgoblin The american version of Street Fighter: The Animated Series was full of errors. It was extremely low budget and hammy. My favorite has to be that time they just forgot about perspective and had DeeJay run out of an elevator and was only like half the size of the nameless Shadowloo minion that fires a laser at him. https://i.redd.it/zund436xas7h1.gif |
| /u/Tricky_Spirit Oh my god this scene reminds me of playing with those old Windows animation programs, like the Spider-Man Cartoon Maker. |
| /u/LapHom Not an error. He used his shrinking powers to dodge. |
| /u/LovelyLuna32684 G1 Transformers had a lot but my favorite is from season two episode Child's play https://i.redd.it/i1wgtr6ryr7h1.gif |
| /u/Latter-Schedule-1959 I cant even tell whats supposed to be happening |
| /u/LovelyLuna32684 Their supposed to be getting into a spaceship |
| /u/Bamzooki1 They're meant to be behind the ship |
| /u/UrinalCake777 https://preview.redd.it/k40f92l0bs7h1.jpeg?width=960&for mat=pjpg&auto=webp&s=0b355a451f16ea30a19c2d688bf09e42662 bed7a |
| /u/JuvenileEloquent It was a show ahead of its time, they had 2022 AI animation in the 1980s. |
| /u/Correct_Doctor_1502 They really said "fuck it, it's good enough" |
| /u/TankRed57 bro this is ai level bad |
| /u/TaylorDangerTorres The first one is not an animation mistake lol. "Oops I rotoscoped this whole thing on accident!" |
| /u/Tylendal It is, if anything, an anti-mistake, doing stuff too correctly. Point is, something went wrong somewhere for that scene to be in the final cut. |
| /u/Smart_Resist615 Probably didn't think they needed that much of the shot while filming and then animation decided they did. No way they had money to do reshoots months after the fact. |
| /u/Azhrei_Vep Or for some reason they actually liked it like that. Pretty sure it was Ralph Bakshi who directed that one, and he's weird. I wouldn't put anything past him. |
| /u/ShrimpyEsq Oh no, I spent 12 hours painstakingly drawing over this film footage by mistake! |
| /u/Icy_Dinner6064 Fr, op must think the bloopers at the end of Toy Story are real bloopers and not just animated skits. |
| /u/CallistanCallistan In Bambi (1942), in a scene where the animals have just escaped a forest fire, there is a single frame where a baby racoon is misaligned. The mistake was caught before the film went to theaters, but it would have been too laborious to go back and fix it. If you haven't seen that movie since you were a kid, the animation is otherwise immaculate. It must have really annoyed the animators to see a mistake in something they put some much love and passion into. |
| /u/Independent_Plum2166 So immaculate in fact, a young boy watched it over 80 times before he wrote his own comic. Inspired by the big expressions in the eyes, Osamu Tezuka made Astro Boy and helped build the modern age of Japanese animation. Yep, there is a direct line between Disney's Bambi and Anime. |
| /u/Siksinaaq https://preview.redd.it/035ii468vr7h1.jpeg?width=500&for mat=pjpg&auto=webp&s=4fe23faaf17abfd4f3cc9cf361276fa63a0 65e17 EDIT: This comment got me my very first Reddit award ever, despite being on this website for 13 years. Thank you! Although I'll admit, I don't know what that purple thing is. EDIT EDIT: "I don't like the idea of having two awards in one day." |
| /u/CptnWolfe Boy, I hope someone was fired for that blunder |
| /u/Zachariah_West https://giphy.com/gifs/z6z7V16QWDVI9tad3O |
| /u/Aselleus https://preview.redd.it/ltzlb8evvr7h1.jpeg?width=1080&fo rmat=pjpg&auto=webp&s=bee9fcb698be1259d815b1cffe19a49a86 1b542b edit: guyys...guys...it's a joke about the joke |
| /u/CokomonX That's just Guy Incognito walking by. |
| /u/Aselleus OH MY GOD, a dog with a puffy tail! https://i.redd.it/ur3gf4c8yr7h1.gif |
| /u/KL5668 I'm seeing double. Four Homers. |
| /u/CanardDeFeu This one is intentional, though. Lisa says something about cartoons not having to make sense, and then a second Homer walks by the window. It's one of my favorite jokes. |
| /u/Fabbyfubz https://giphy.com/gifs/xT9IgHCTfp8CRshfQk |