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Reusing Character Models?

No. 1 Machop Fan

No. 1 Machop Fan

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Have you ever noticed that sometimes they reuse models of minor characters later on in the Anime?

For example, the MC of the Princess Festival in PRINCESS VS. PRINCESS and the cameraman in Shell Shock both seem to reappear (with different voices) in The Art of Pokemon, and Roger from Stage Fight reappears with a different voice as a Team Rocket secret agent in Luvdisc is a Many Spendored Thing.

Discuss.
 
What's there to discuss?

There's been a million background characters in the series. Some are bound to look similar.

Or, if the artists just can't think of ideas for characters, they'll just look back on old episodes and just recycle an old background character. It's not a big deal...

Here's three whole pages on it:

Female Characters
Male Characters
Miscellaneous

^ Not made by me. From Dogasu's Backpack.
 
Looking at some of those pictures there's a chance some of them could just be the same character who happens to be in that place at the time, others are recycled that's for sure especially the one that goes by the name Annie/Stephanie in two episodes.

They also show a male character who appears in lots of scenes of episodes O.O I think Ash has a stalker lol
 
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A_Merry_Snowrunt said:
don't forget the episode's when Ash and Max had a doppelganger. However Ash never met the kid in the Orange Island.
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Max's doppleganger didn't look EXACTLY like him. Ash's doppleganger, Travis, does come close, but he still appears different enough, and I don't just mean the hair.

If you take a look at the episodes I referenced (Serebii.net has pictures that will come in very handy) you'll see what I mean.
 
I think they do this because they are too lazy to make up new models for background characters so they just have some basic ones like girl with pigtails, boy with hooded jacket and cap. Then they change the colours, hair style, eye shape, clothes etc. Spotting them is like looking for Wally (Waldo for US).
 
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