For the main characters of *Tom and Jerry*, Tom and Jerry themselves, Zog chose the art style from the late 1940s to the early 1960s.
This was also the style most familiar to the vast majority of people who grew up watching the cartoon.
Because the series spanned over 80 years, it went through multiple changes in art style.
In the very beginning, the style was more animal-like, with visible fur effects on their bodies. Only a few years later did it change to a more minimalist style.
The one that became the most well-known.
In the years that followed, Tom's design started to look a bit like an old man, and he became more sinister. The overall plots also grew darker, and the episodes responsible for many a "childhood trauma" mostly came from this period.
In a later period, the characters suddenly took on a chibi-style appearance, a version that many people have probably never seen.
Furthermore, due to more commercialized production updates, the quality dropped severely.
