Recently about 250 animators, each with his own idiosyncratic style, redid an episode of the old English dub of Sailor Moon, each taking a few seconds. The result is, um, amazing. This is Sailor Moon as you’ve never seen her before: surrealistic, kaleidoscopic, bizarre and beyond bizarre. The screen caps here only hint at the stupefying variety of clashing styles in the complete episode. Even if you’re not a Sailor Moon fan, it’s worth watching just to see what contemporary animators are capable of.
I dunno, it’s kind of heavy on Fricfalusi-style ugly-for-the-sake-of-ugly. I doubt this is actually the native style of that many animators. Not sure if the motivation is “because that range of styles is quickest to crank out on a volunteer basis” or “because animation in that range of styles catches the eye and the memory better than pretty-and-professional-looking”.