Like, it's not even close. The 1977 cartoon is crisp, has beautiful artwork, and more closely matches the spirit of the books. Jackson's Hobbit trilogy meanwhile is a bloated mess. I was so bored and uninterested I couldn't even finish the third movie.
I always forget I watched the first hobbit movie because it was so lame and forgettable. The animated films also benefit from not having the Peter Jackson visual mono-culture that LotR suffers from ever since the live action stuff came out.