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| <div class="thumb tright"><div class="thumbinner" style="width:252px;"><a class="image" href="/index.php?title=File:hs_wallpaper.png" title="Homestar through the years"><img alt="" border="0" class="thumbimage" height="188" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20211001000000im_/http://www.hrwiki.org/w/images/thumb/7/7e/hs_wallpaper.png/250px-hs_wallpaper.png" width="250"/></a> <div class="thumbcaption"><div class="magnify"><a class="internal" href="/index.php?title=File:hs_wallpaper.png" title="Enlarge"><img alt="" height="11" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20211001000000im_/http://www.hrwiki.org/w/skins/common/images/magnify-clip.png" width="15"/></a></div>Homestar through the years</div></div></div>
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| <p>Over the years, <a href="/index.php?title=Homestar_Runner_%28body_of_work%29" title="Homestar Runner (body of work)">Homestar Runner</a> <a href="/index.php?title=Characters" title="Characters">characters</a> have undergone a number of changes to their appearance. The first two years of <a href="/index.php?title=homestarrunner.com" title="homestarrunner.com">the site</a> saw particularly dramatic shifts in appearances, as creative duo <a href="/index.php?title=The_Brothers_Chaps" title="The Brothers Chaps">the Brothers Chaps</a> familiarized themselves with <a href="/index.php?title=Flash" title="Flash">Flash</a> and developed their signature art <a href="/index.php?title=Style" title="Style">style</a>.
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| </p><p>Below are links to charts for individual characters as they have changed.
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| <a id="Character_evolution_pages_by_category" name="Character_evolution_pages_by_category"></a><h2> <span class="mw-headline"> Character evolution pages by category </span></h2>
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| <ul><li><b><a class="mw-redirect" href="/index.php?title=Main_Characters" title="Main Characters">Main Characters</a>:</b> <a href="/index.php?title=Homestar_Runner_Evolution" title="Homestar Runner Evolution">Homestar Runner</a> · <a href="/index.php?title=Strong_Bad_Evolution" title="Strong Bad Evolution">Strong Bad</a> · <a href="/index.php?title=Pom_Pom_Evolution" title="Pom Pom Evolution">Pom Pom</a> · <a href="/index.php?title=Coach_Z_Evolution" title="Coach Z Evolution">Coach Z</a> · <a href="/index.php?title=Bubs_Evolution" title="Bubs Evolution">Bubs</a> · <a href="/index.php?title=The_Cheat_Evolution" title="The Cheat Evolution">The Cheat</a> · <a href="/index.php?title=Strong_Mad_Evolution" title="Strong Mad Evolution">Strong Mad</a> · <a href="/index.php?title=Strong_Sad_Evolution" title="Strong Sad Evolution">Strong Sad</a> · <a href="/index.php?title=Marzipan_Evolution" title="Marzipan Evolution">Marzipan</a> · <a href="/index.php?title=The_King_of_Town_Evolution" title="The King of Town Evolution">The King of Town</a> · <a href="/index.php?title=The_Poopsmith_Evolution" title="The Poopsmith Evolution">The Poopsmith</a> · <a href="/index.php?title=Homsar_Evolution" title="Homsar Evolution">Homsar</a>
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| </li><li><b><a href="/index.php?title=Old-Timey" title="Old-Timey">Old-Timey</a>:</b> <a href="/index.php?title=The_Homestar_Runner_Evolution" title="The Homestar Runner Evolution">The Homestar Runner</a> · <a href="/index.php?title=Old-Timey_Strong_Bad_Evolution" title="Old-Timey Strong Bad Evolution">Old-Timey Strong Bad</a>
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| </li><li><b><a href="/index.php?title=20X6" title="20X6">20X6</a>:</b> <a href="/index.php?title=Stinkoman" title="Stinkoman">Stinkoman</a> · <a href="/index.php?title=1-Up" title="1-Up">1-Up</a>
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| </li><li><b><a href="/index.php?title=Storybook_World" title="Storybook World">Storybook World</a>:</b> <a href="/index.php?title=Mr._Bland" title="Mr. Bland">Mr. Bland</a> · <a href="/index.php?title=Se%C3%B1or" title="Señor">Señor</a> · <a href="/index.php?title=The_Robot_%28storybook%29" title="The Robot (storybook)">The Robot</a> · <a href="/index.php?title=The_Grape_Fairie" title="The Grape Fairie">The Grape Fairie</a>
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| </li><li><b>Other:</b> <a href="/index.php?title=The_Announcer" title="The Announcer">The Announcer</a> · <a href="/index.php?title=The_Umpire" title="The Umpire">The Umpire</a> · <a href="/index.php?title=The_Knight" title="The Knight">The Knight</a> · <a href="/index.php?title=The_Yello_Dello" title="The Yello Dello">The Yello Dello</a> · <a href="/index.php?title=The_Goblin" title="The Goblin">The Goblin</a> · <a href="/index.php?title=Visor_Robot" title="Visor Robot">Visor Robot</a> · <a href="/index.php?title=The_Sad_Kids" title="The Sad Kids">The Sad Kids</a> · <a href="/index.php?title=Nebulon" title="Nebulon">Nebulon</a> · <a href="/index.php?title=Preshy_and_Rafferty" title="Preshy and Rafferty">Preshy and Rafferty</a>
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| <a id="General_design_trends" name="General_design_trends"></a><h2> <span class="mw-headline"> General design trends</span></h2>
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| <p>Many characters were initially designed for <a href="/index.php?title=Original_Book" title="Original Book">children's books</a>. These hand-drawn designs were simple and loose, with thin outlines and bold, solid colors:
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| <p>When <a href="/index.php?title=The_Brothers_Chaps" title="The Brothers Chaps">the Brothers Chaps</a> began using <a href="/index.php?title=Flash" title="Flash">Flash</a>, character designs still kept the hand-drawn feeling with thick, irregular lines (as drawings were often digitized with <a class="extiw" href="/index.php?title=Adobe_Streamline" title="wikipedia:Adobe Streamline">Adobe Streamline</a>); coloring made use of gradients:
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| <div class="thumb" style="padding: 13px 0; width: 150px;"><div style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; width: 120px;"><a class="image" href="/index.php?title=File:StrongBadThirdDesign.png" title="StrongBadThirdDesign.png"><img alt="" border="0" height="120" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20211001000000im_/http://www.hrwiki.org/w/images/thumb/8/85/StrongBadThirdDesign.png/100px-StrongBadThirdDesign.png" width="100"/></a></div></div>
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| <div class="thumb" style="padding: 13px 0; width: 150px;"><div style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; width: 120px;"><a class="image" href="/index.php?title=File:pompom_evolution_iop.png" title="pompom evolution iop.png"><img alt="" border="0" height="120" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20211001000000im_/http://www.hrwiki.org/w/images/thumb/4/44/pompom_evolution_iop.png/109px-pompom_evolution_iop.png" width="109"/></a></div></div>
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| <p>Around the time of <a href="/index.php?title=A_Jumping_Jack_Contest" title="A Jumping Jack Contest">A Jumping Jack Contest</a>, characters began to be drawn in Flash and appeared with cleaner vector lines with more precise shapes. This art style primarily used black outlines, flat colors, and limited shading:
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| <p>Characters' current designs are typified by colored outlines and the use of shadows, highlights, and varying line width to add depth:
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| <p>Most character designs have not significantly evolved since 2001. Post-2001 changes typically include minor adjustments to facial or body proportions, additional facial expressions, or reworking how a character is animated, not major changes to how the character is drawn.
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| <a id="See_Also" name="See_Also"></a><h2> <span class="mw-headline">See Also</span></h2>
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| <ul><li><a href="/index.php?title=Minor_Character_Variations" title="Minor Character Variations">Minor Character Variations</a>
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