Board Thread:Sonic Boom/@comment-30487355-20161217030928/@comment-679780-20161217172422

Because past cartoons were 2D animated, change of clothing or apperance was just a matter of how to draw and animate it.

Working with 3D models means that while you can add hats or whatever that can be put on a models, things like bare feet or major changes to the character will require a brand new model for it.

For example in My Fair Sticksy, in order to have Amy and Sticks wear their dresses, brand new models would be need to have the alternate garments required (though their heads would be mostly copy-paste and their bodies based on standard model shapes) but still Amy and Sticks in dresses are entirely seperate models to Amy and Sticks default models. As for Sonic, it could be possible his jacket is an additional model made to fit around his default model and corrospond with his "bones" (what makes a models flexibility and maneuverability possible.)