User blog comment:Thomasfan502/Season 8 Discussion Blog/@comment-31892545-20190222034826

Now that we’ve gotten a solid look at the season, does anyone else share in my opinion that the new art style doesn’t make the Winx look significantly younger? Sure, there are some frames where they don’t look great and they do look younger due to lack of detail in the face, but most of the time they have enough detail to look like themselves. The face shape is softened, the eye shape is rounded, the lips are differently shaped, they’re given blush and some textures, but I don’t think it fundamentally changes their look. They look like the Winx we know, just drawn in a different style. I wouldn’t say they regressed 10 years in age, but I’m interested to know what everyone thinks. The only real “problem” I have is the eye shape. While I enjoy it, they are not the iconic Winx eyes that made them unique, though they are somewhat similar to the old ones. The new eyes do sometimes read as childish, and I think they are really the root of the problem everyone is having (the exaggerated blush is also questionable in some frames).