This must be what it's like to see the mirror universe version of yourself. I absolutely hate the CalArts art style and Adobe Flash-based animation techniques that dominate modern carrtoons. Give me that 80s/90s shit all day, even low quality stuff where they're constantly reusing shots and just painting a new background (and the background is often pretty blurry so you don't focus too hard on it) looks better than 90% of what's coming out now.
Yeah, newer cartoons look like flat, paper puppets. Everything is too on model and lifeless.
The fun part about animation used to be how you could exaggerate expressions and movements. That happens less and less now, outside of things like Adventure Time
Spongebob is cool but it (like the Simpsons, come to think of it) is a window into the degeneration of animation that I'm talking about. The art gets better for the first couple seasons as the budget goes up and the show's creators get into their groove, but as it drags on into season ten or twenty you can see the quality bleeding off over time.
The direction of the show went to shit too, but that's a different problem.
I agree. When I say Spongebob I really mean the first few seasons culminating in the first movie. The quality of writing and animation starts dropping off after that
Yeah I watched a S2 simpsons last night (bart the daredevil) and noticed they reused a scene from their opening title for a scene in the show, and i still thought it was one of the better things i have seen in a cartoon in years(showing the kids playing outside, they resuse the animation of bart skateboarding through the park, but with some other kid). There seemed to be more heart in it when compared to the really crisp styles of animation today
This must be what it's like to see the mirror universe version of yourself. I absolutely hate the CalArts art style and Adobe Flash-based animation techniques that dominate modern carrtoons. Give me that 80s/90s shit all day, even low quality stuff where they're constantly reusing shots and just painting a new background (and the background is often pretty blurry so you don't focus too hard on it) looks better than 90% of what's coming out now.
Yeah, newer cartoons look like flat, paper puppets. Everything is too on model and lifeless.
The fun part about animation used to be how you could exaggerate expressions and movements. That happens less and less now, outside of things like Adventure Time
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I do like Spongebob as a child's intro to body horror
true art
Spongebob --> Ren and Stimpy --> Cronenberg
Spongebob is cool but it (like the Simpsons, come to think of it) is a window into the degeneration of animation that I'm talking about. The art gets better for the first couple seasons as the budget goes up and the show's creators get into their groove, but as it drags on into season ten or twenty you can see the quality bleeding off over time.
The direction of the show went to shit too, but that's a different problem.
I agree. When I say Spongebob I really mean the first few seasons culminating in the first movie. The quality of writing and animation starts dropping off after that
Yeah I watched a S2 simpsons last night (bart the daredevil) and noticed they reused a scene from their opening title for a scene in the show, and i still thought it was one of the better things i have seen in a cartoon in years(showing the kids playing outside, they resuse the animation of bart skateboarding through the park, but with some other kid). There seemed to be more heart in it when compared to the really crisp styles of animation today