One thing that I dont like about a lot of cartoons (and yea, i am pretty fuckin critical when it comes to the cartoons on these days) is the animation they use.
I aint a walt-disney animation purist, all lifelike and realistic and crap, but as someone who does art and appreciates the work it can take, some of the shit today just rubs me the wrong way.
I remember when Hey Arnold came out and i didnt like their style at all, but since then shit really took a turn for the simpler and uglyer LOL. compared to today Hey Anold aint lookin too bad.
For example i actually started to realize that there is a lot of jokes in Family guy that i WOULD find funny, except for some reason the animation of the show is so unbearable to me that i cant watch it. the characters are just so ugly. in a real life show it wouldnt bother me that much but the visual appeal is so low that i cant look at the screen long enough to watch it.
It seems like lately the degree of actual art in animation on especially KIDS shows is just goin down the tubes.
Now dont get me wrong, i aint all traditional like that. i like Ren and Stimpys style, always did, and a lot of other shows, i aitn got a problem with individual and unusual style. even shit liek Aqua teens, which is simple, but the backgrounds and shit have alot of detail in them.
But these kids shows are so hype, loud, obnoxious, with fast moving everything, fast dialog, annoying high pitched voices, its like a train wreck exploding on screen every frame. and the drawing itself is getting very simple, little amount of details, no wonder kids have friggin ADD. Sometimes i sit there like.....is it possible...ONCE...to just make a show, where the characters AINT fuckin DEFORMED looking? like...just a NOSE? not a punching bag? can we have someone with teeth, not humungous buckteeth that take up their whole half of their head? theres so much exaggeration and simplification....peopel dont even look like people no more if you really think about it.
Theres definately a trend in the style used there....
Anyways, I aint tryina make this my personal soapbox so ill quit talkin about what i like and dont like, just wondering if there is anyone else out there who sometimes pays more attention to the animation than the show even. i know most peopel prolly dont give a fuck, but maybe other people who do art or especially comic book art and animation could give their opinions.
good animation really makes a show better for me. even Boondocks, and i dont like the Anime style at all, has some beautiful animation in it especially in the granddads fight episode. good, detailed, rich animation, i can really appreciate that shit, its a treat for your eyes to see.
Shit like the old walt disney version of Fantasia, other than it being a psychedelic stoner fest movie, is beautiful to me just seeing the degree of artistry and detail in the animation of it, its gorgeous.
Like i said, i dont watch anime at all, but my sister does and one night i saw the ghost in the shell. it was a episode about a abandoned city and going down into the abandoned city to mine for radioactive chemicals and shit.
But the backgrounds, the scenery, was BEAUTIFUL, i was not payin attention to a damn word they said but just soaking in the art of it and the setting whiel i waited for her to leave so i could put my shit on. it was like being in a museum loking at a painting you really really like. i wish there was more of that commitment to making it pleasant to see, with some of these other shows.
Shit over time got more stylized and thats cool..... its interesting to see all different types of animation on shows than jsut one bland ass old style all the time, but at the same time, it seems like they sacrifice skill or good design (making it pleasant to the eyes) for style sometimes.
Ill end this shit now, but I wonder what yall thought about that.
does the style the show is drawn make any difference to you?
do you pay attention to the backgrounds, the characters, the lighting, the style?
anything else you wanna add?
I aint a walt-disney animation purist, all lifelike and realistic and crap, but as someone who does art and appreciates the work it can take, some of the shit today just rubs me the wrong way.
I remember when Hey Arnold came out and i didnt like their style at all, but since then shit really took a turn for the simpler and uglyer LOL. compared to today Hey Anold aint lookin too bad.
For example i actually started to realize that there is a lot of jokes in Family guy that i WOULD find funny, except for some reason the animation of the show is so unbearable to me that i cant watch it. the characters are just so ugly. in a real life show it wouldnt bother me that much but the visual appeal is so low that i cant look at the screen long enough to watch it.
It seems like lately the degree of actual art in animation on especially KIDS shows is just goin down the tubes.
Now dont get me wrong, i aint all traditional like that. i like Ren and Stimpys style, always did, and a lot of other shows, i aitn got a problem with individual and unusual style. even shit liek Aqua teens, which is simple, but the backgrounds and shit have alot of detail in them.
But these kids shows are so hype, loud, obnoxious, with fast moving everything, fast dialog, annoying high pitched voices, its like a train wreck exploding on screen every frame. and the drawing itself is getting very simple, little amount of details, no wonder kids have friggin ADD. Sometimes i sit there like.....is it possible...ONCE...to just make a show, where the characters AINT fuckin DEFORMED looking? like...just a NOSE? not a punching bag? can we have someone with teeth, not humungous buckteeth that take up their whole half of their head? theres so much exaggeration and simplification....peopel dont even look like people no more if you really think about it.
Theres definately a trend in the style used there....
Anyways, I aint tryina make this my personal soapbox so ill quit talkin about what i like and dont like, just wondering if there is anyone else out there who sometimes pays more attention to the animation than the show even. i know most peopel prolly dont give a fuck, but maybe other people who do art or especially comic book art and animation could give their opinions.
good animation really makes a show better for me. even Boondocks, and i dont like the Anime style at all, has some beautiful animation in it especially in the granddads fight episode. good, detailed, rich animation, i can really appreciate that shit, its a treat for your eyes to see.
Shit like the old walt disney version of Fantasia, other than it being a psychedelic stoner fest movie, is beautiful to me just seeing the degree of artistry and detail in the animation of it, its gorgeous.
Like i said, i dont watch anime at all, but my sister does and one night i saw the ghost in the shell. it was a episode about a abandoned city and going down into the abandoned city to mine for radioactive chemicals and shit.
But the backgrounds, the scenery, was BEAUTIFUL, i was not payin attention to a damn word they said but just soaking in the art of it and the setting whiel i waited for her to leave so i could put my shit on. it was like being in a museum loking at a painting you really really like. i wish there was more of that commitment to making it pleasant to see, with some of these other shows.
Shit over time got more stylized and thats cool..... its interesting to see all different types of animation on shows than jsut one bland ass old style all the time, but at the same time, it seems like they sacrifice skill or good design (making it pleasant to the eyes) for style sometimes.
Ill end this shit now, but I wonder what yall thought about that.
does the style the show is drawn make any difference to you?
do you pay attention to the backgrounds, the characters, the lighting, the style?
anything else you wanna add?
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