I don't know if anybody else is as big on character design as I am... so, maybe I'm the only one that will find this awesome... but I had to share, regardless.<br/><br/>I was looking through pictures, trying to figure out what I wanted to do for a new Avatar when I noticed something.<br/><br/>(http://elliquiy.com/elluiki/images/0/0e/Ty-lee-azula-and-mai-in-disguise.jpg)(http://elliquiy.com/elluiki/images/f/ff/Suki-avatar-the-last-airbender-15715351-451-402.jpg)(http://elliquiy.com/elluiki/images/6/66/Katara-painted_lady.png)(http://elliquiy.com/elluiki/images/4/4c/June-avatar-the-last-airbender-15715254-290-362.jpg)(http://elliquiy.com/elluiki/images/7/70/Yue-avatar-the-last-airbender-15715104-331-321.jpg)<br/><br/>Obviously I don't need to introduce everybody... but I'm gonna...<br/><br/>Left to right:  Ty Lee, Azula, Mei (in Kyoshi Make-up); Suki (Kyoshi Make-up); Katara (as the Painted Lady); June; Princess Yue.<br/><br/>So, why did I post everybody wearing make-up?  It's because the art style they used leaves the lips blank when the characters aren't wearing make-up. (Azula and Suki are the only members of the primary cast that always have their lips painted).  And it was the lips that were the first thing that I noticed.<br/><br/>Every character has her own...<em>unique</em>... cupid's bow.  That's the shape of the upper lip.  They actually all have completely unique lip/mouth-shapes entirely.  There is a little bit of similarity between Katara's and Yue's, but that could be because of similar racial background.  But even still, "similar" isn't "same".  The two have different overall shapes.<br/><br/>I was once called insane for doing that with character designs... because that kind of detail is such a pain in the ass for artists to work with.  Keeping in mind that I was trying to character design for something that would be still images, the artists wouldn't have to work with nearly as much repetition and memorization as with an animated project.<br/><br/>Quite simply, though, that is an insane amount of detail put to character design.  And in a medium where you're allowed to get away with just slapping different hair on the same body over and over again and calling her a new character.  And even more so when you take into account that Avatar defined certain characteristics as belonging to given nationalities (blue eyes to water tribe, for example... fair skin to fire nation, amber eyes to fire nation royalty, dark skin to water tribe, etc).  But what if it's just these still frames?  What if it just happened to be a happy accident based on when these stills were taken?<br/><br/>Well, I can go beyond that, too.  Each character has a unique head-shape.  Each girl has a unique bust/waist/hip ratio.  There are variations in the eye-shape between characters (though, honestly, not as much as there are in other features).  Hell, look at Ty Lee, Azula and Mei up there... they each have a unique nose!  When's the last time you saw any animated anything where each character had a unique nose?!  The only other cartoon I can think of that came close to this much variation in design was X-Men: Evolution... which apparently only I thought was a good show. >.>;<br/><br/>Sorry... this just had me really fascinated.  And I think every cartoon that recycles designs from here on needs to apologize for laziness. >.><br/><br/>Though, I will confess that this one doesn't do a lot of screwing around when it comes to hair color... characters almost entirely pick between brown or dark brown.  Apparently hair-color choices in Avatar world are the same as the color pallet in a modern shooter game.