[–] uvb76 0 points 2 points 2 points (+2|-0) ago (edited ago)
Bring back onion skin animation. One painstaking frame at a time.
heres something i made in that program. took about a week while i was in school. I think i did about 12 layers in all. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7pshW71qj2o
[–] AnmanIndustries 0 points 6 points 6 points (+6|-0) ago
Mass production and ease of use of key tools. When I was investigating animation types for some of my works, I found that most low to mid level animation groups use flash or 3d rendering. Very little pure drawing animation is done these days.
[–] AnmanIndustries 0 points 2 points 2 points (+2|-0) ago
Who is they? Life like computer animation with things like live 3d modeling (sensors on a life actor), would cost a lot more. However often people forget that you can plug a draw pad into a computer and still draw, on a computer. Then you can use computer tools to animate without drawing every single frame.
[–] library_of_stupid 0 points 9 points 9 points (+9|-0) ago
I don't think the issue here is that they're not animating by hand anymore, but that their characters look like grotesquely misshapen tumors and the scripts are just pure leftist propaganda devoid of any other content.
[–] AnmanIndustries 0 points 2 points 2 points (+2|-0) ago
Ahh, but have you had a look at any recent anime coming out of japan? For the most part, the writing there is usually good, but you can see the same animation styles. I find that they tend to mix it up a lot, but they still take shortcuts because its easier.
[–] Martel-Sobieski 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago
Maybe they think they can slide by adding in preteen dicks and vaginas to their product (Big mouth) if the figures already look like misshapen tumors, whereas Japan gets the UN on their ass about it.
[–] Star_Platinum 0 points 17 points 17 points (+17|-0) ago (edited ago)
Simpsons, South Park and Family guy showed that you can make a shitload of money in animation without actually animating well. Nobody wants to invest money in the visuals-just get a roomful of jokewriters to churnout scripts that we storyboard here and send to Korea to get animated. We created the animation industry here in America, it's a goddamn shame that we let japan make us look like amateurs now.
[–] baphometsrage ago
It was never about the animation, tho. Watch early Simpsons and it looks like absolute shit. It was always about the writing. Same with Futurama, Beavis and Butthead, and King of the Hill, it doesn't look good now but they still hold up
[–] Martel-Sobieski 0 points 5 points 5 points (+5|-0) ago
Some of the older animation looks great. Walt Disney made a lot of videos going into detail about how they animated everything and the techniques used. Here theyre showing off the multi plane camera
Nowadays theyre just lazy, dont care about artistic merit or creating a visually pleasing product.
Walt and Roy Disney really made other individuals in the industry look bad. Now it's not about looking good it's about whatever the writers churn out and animated elsewhere. Pure nepotism and laziness propping up the talentless in an industry that used to take actual talent to be considered on top. If everything in the industry is equally shit and there are only 5 or 6 studios then theres no competition or incentive to make things better
[–] J_Darnley 0 points 5 points 5 points (+5|-0) ago
Japan might do that for very specific cases to make an ugly person. Examples: Plastic Nee-san fat girl, Ugly maids in Fairy Tail, Fat girl in Trails of Cold Steel
Or sometimes a deliberate animation style shift can result in ugly animation for dramatic/comedic purposes.
[–] baphometsrage ago
Idk about the others, but it's pretty common to make the bad guys fat and/or ugly in anime like they did in most of Fairy Tail, except for the really strong ones obviously
[–] Landrictree 0 points 3 points 3 points (+3|-0) ago (edited ago)
Those are nowhere near as bad.
Well, except for Stewie with the pig nose and buck teeth.
[–] Martel-Sobieski 0 points 5 points 5 points (+5|-0) ago
It's because they get in the positions they are based on nepotism rather than merit. They dont care about quality, most american animation is sandwiching a political agenda between jokes so it slides over better. It's not about making something that is visually pleasing
[–] BlockMe 0 points 18 points 18 points (+18|-0) ago
Tom and Jerry used to be beautifully animated by hand.
By hand.
The fact is that it used to take time and artistic effort. Now it's low margin, high volume crap. Oh, and with less violence. Can't have Jerry whacking Tom in the face with a pan anymore.
[–] Paranoidroid 3 points 1 point 4 points (+4|-3) ago
Maybe not violent but take a look at Big Mouth (the ugly kid shown in OP's sample picture) on Netflix. In-fucking-credible. They have actually brought to (cartoon) life a raging Hormone Monster literally skullfuck a dude's decapitated head. This show basically has the most vulgar shit from the likes of reddit and voat and turns it into hilarious adult cartoons.
[–] shadow332 [S] ago (edited ago)
Haha true. I grew up with animation like this. It just seems like there's so much more effort put into this.