Designing My Dinosaurs - Theme

To decide on how I wanted the little characters in my presentations to look, I first decided to look into TV shows that were currently popular with children of KS2 age...

Some of the most popular children's cartoons from TV channel, Cartoon Network, as of 2018 include...

Other key titles that I found through my research (casually referenced in Useful Links post), include OK K.O, Spongebob Squarepants, My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic, The Simpsons and The Miraculous Ladybug. All of these titles deviant wildly from realism in their art styles. 

All of the characters have very exaggerated features to the point that they do not at all look like a person/the animal they were based on (for example; Jake the dog in Adventure Time). This is a trait has become increasingly popular in children's media over the past couple of decades (see above - Teen Titans Go! (2013) vs Teen Titans (2003)). These styles also tend to have very obvious line art - usually thicker and/or black. The only one of the titles listed that does not adhere to this theme is Miraculous Ladybug - as it is produced with line-less 3D animation. It does, however, still exhibit the exaggerated body shape/head sizes of other cartoons.