https://www.vice.com/amp/en/article/m7aywq/simpsons-fans-prefer-new-seasons

  • Dirt_Owl [comrade/them, they/them]
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    4 years ago

    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

    • OgdenTO [he/him]
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      4 years ago

      I do like Spongebob as a child's intro to body horror

      • ssjmarx [he/him]
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        4 years ago

        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.

        • OgdenTO [he/him]
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          4 years ago

          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