If you’re reading this, you probably had the same knee jerk reaction I did when I saw Super Inggo animation clips playing on ABS-CBN Channel 2. Or perhaps you are one of the animators or designers of Super Inggo and you are wondering if anyone’s noticed that the design for Super Inggo looks a little too Digimon…
Well I’m here to tell you are probably just as old as I am… And hopefully most kids won’t know who Tai Kamiya is…
Super Inggo seems to have been influenced by Digimon’s (first generation) Tai Kamiya. The goggles, the hair. their height and their anime appeal - are so… well… OBVIOUSLY the same.
The Super Inggo character designers did make an effort to separate the two characters:
1. They made Super Inggo’s design asymmetrical - unfortunately burdening him with many belt pouches that no average kid would wear (unless of course they were exclusive ABS-CBN Super Inggo belt pouches that every kid would want to buy at Jollibee.) and also burdening the animators… who are probably hoping to able to flip the character horizontally without any inconsistencies.
And call me a old-fashioned, but where can you find children’s pants like that?
2. The strength of the colors may be brighter when on TV, but generally the designers made Inggo’s color pallette generally weaker and warmer and not the fairly loud primary color scheme as his Digimon counterpart. Living in a tropical country is enough color for us.
Smart designers will also spot that they’ve change the rhythm of color temperature: Tai’s blue goggle strap & shirt vs Super Inggo’s red-orange goggle strap & shirt. Tai’s deep red-orange shorts and Super Inggo’s blue-gray … uh pants. Even the application of yellow is different between the two.
3. Super Inggo’s goggles are just big enough to cover his huge eyes. That would make them the familiar goggles for swimming. Any bigger and they’d look like Tai’s “pilotish” goggles and would likely need a coiffure as big as Tai’s to match.
4. Super Inggo’s hair has high lights. I think those are highlights. Remember kids, don’t color your hair too often - it isn’t good for your hair.
Hey everyone… can you spot how else the designers set Super Inggo apart from Digimon’s Tai?
October 3rd, 2008 - 10:02 pm
mmmm, ‘99 and still superior.
October 3rd, 2008 - 11:31 pm
looks like even inggo’s face was made asymmetrical.
October 4th, 2008 - 3:48 am
ahahahaha…. i knew the yugi oh monsters were missing. when i saw that animation clip from abs, i was wondering if digimon were coming to the abs. i guess i was about 30 percent correct. ahahahaha
though when they turned him into a cartoon character, i expected his clothes to have changed, since there are a lot of things dangling in his body that are very unecessary. i understand the goggles since he can fly, but the pouches?! i was wondering if he can even run properly in those pants with that pouch dangling around his leg. lastly, i wished that his clothes wasn’t so baggy. looks like an epic failure of a wanna be ganster XD