Make the 90s cartoon you would have woken up early for

90s nostalgia comes in a few flavours, and each one is recognisable in a single frame. What made the originals stick was that the heroes looked exactly the same every week. Pick one look per World and Character App keeps it, along with every Character’s design.

• Saturday-morning cartoon

  Thick outlines, flat saturated colour, big expressions, a theme song you can almost hear. Heroes with a gimmick, a sidekick with a snack, a villain whose plan is weirdly specific.

• 90s cel anime

  Thick ink, flat cel shading, film grain, warm sunsets, long hair in the wind. Suits a courier racing across a city, a band of misfits, a melancholy road trip.

• Camcorder sitcom

  A 4:3 frame, washed-out colour, a date stamp in the corner, and a living room with too many throw pillows. Perfect for a family sitcom intro or a birthday gone wrong.

A 90s series is a small set of reliable pieces: a hideout, a city, a villain’s lair, and a Cast that fits on a lunchbox. Build those once as your World and Characters and every Episode is just a new scheme. Ask the Director for the villain’s next plan, let the Story break it into Scenes, draw the Images, then film the Clips you like. A season can run as long as the villain keeps losing, and a good villain never runs out of ways to lose. Works on the web and in the iPhone app.