Was this the peak of western animation?

Bullshit.

The hugeness and absolute precision in the way white diamond's headshapes move during the camera movement prove that Mr. Baxter knows what the fuck is up

Peak of Steven Universe animation, definitely.
Western animation in general, nah.
Still pretty damn, impressive though.

Go back to /int/. /pol/ and Yea Forums have already accelerated this board's rot and you're faggoty ass isn't helping.

dilate

His mom is a princess from a race of sentient crystal computers who project hard light bodies. His dad is a Human layabout guitarist. They fell in love, she shapeshifted herself a holographic womb that he fertilized with his carbon-based sperm, and then she transferred her gem into the baby, ending her own existence and becoming a hybridized half-meatsack half-crystal magic hologram.

Eventually the other royalty from his mom's planet find out. They think this is extremely gay, basically tantamount to bestiality, and they want to put a stop to it and get their sister back. So they pluck out his gem, thinking it will turn back into his mom and that his meat half will just die and they can put the whole thing behind them.

It doesn't work, because his mom/soul/gem-half wants to keep being a gay meat hybrid, so in these scene they tell off the other gems, get back together and have an extremely queer but pointlessly rushed ending.

>peak of western animation

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Not even close.
youtube.com/watch?v=76-8xyGf7w0

Thus proving western animation is dead? Yes.

what does dilate mean?

why don't you google it and see for yourself summerfag?

>newfag meme

>your response to someone asking what's going on is to start shitflinging.
And I thought /pol/ was the most toxic board on Yea Forums.

NuLion King will be the peak of western animation. You fags will never admit it because of "muh traditional" but peak CGI has blown your 2D toons the fuck out.

CGI has no soul.

>implying that shit even counts as a cartoon

Soul doesn't get you to the top.

It's not cartoons; it's pure god-like mastery. The ability to practically manipulate reality to the finest detail. Like a god.

It's lonely at the top.

This is the gayest fucking shit I've ever seen in my life, and I frequent gay threads on /gif/.

Knowing the context now doesn't help anything at all. I can't get over how fucking gay this show is, and I never will. This cartoon is a curse on this world. It really is.

Dreamworks.

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no, this was

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Definitely not

Fuck off, no

Have sex

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This triggers weebs because it’s better then all of the shit they ever made
Bless this piece of art

Oswald is the peak of western civilization

Even as a potential joke, that question infuriates me. Animation in the West has been in a dark age since Cartoon Network started Toonami. At best, when this show is as old as He-Man currently is to us, it'll be seen as a pure product of its time, no mater how many Disney alumni they get for what is bound to be a TV movie you won't hear about a week after it airs.

I think its fair to say that scene, if nothing else, is one of the best animated western cartoon scenes made for TV.

You can find better animated scenes, but usually those involve movie budgets. Or come from japan.

Wow that aged terribly.

It's not actually technically perfect, but I'm convinced that seasoned animators like him intentionally put in slight imperfections so it's obvious it's all hand drawn and not rotoscoped. It feels better to look at.

Delusional

Funny still that she could have probably made a normal meat baby without sacrificing her own existence. Pink/Rose is a selfish cunt.

>was this the peak of western animation?

Not only is it not the peak of western animation, it's not even the best work James Baxter has done.

>summerfag
>newfag
So which is it?

Not quite as good as this scene.

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Self-love is pretty universal message. He still has Rose/Pink's memories, so they better discuss what can be done with it, and whether it's possible to recreate Rose/Pink in a new body with memories up to the birth of Steven.

Oh, that's what the finished animation looked like? That's kinda disappointing, the glow effect hides a lot of the animator's work there.

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More like the most recent trough.

Now that's gay

Jesus what's that from? Looks amazing!

>HIT ME ONE TIME
God I can still hear that velvety smooth voice

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I don't think it's a matter of putting in mistakes as much as it is he knows what to focus on to make it look good.

It's a nice looking scene, but as others have posted their are more complex examples out there.

Imagine if they'd actually stuck to hand-drawn animation.
Imagine where we'd be.

We would have fewer animated shows and movies in general, and because of the high cost to produce such works would be incredibly focus grouped to be as safe and bland as possible, because you need to hit the lowest common denominator in order to maintain profitability. Any show that wasn't immediately profitable would be cancelled before the end of their first season. There would continue to be a very, very strong focus on toys and other merchandise, because you need that merch money to sustain your animation budget and keep things profitable.

Alternatively, it might just turn into anime where the way you keep things profitable is to cut corners on as much of the animation as possible wherever you can. Reuse footage, loop mouth flaps, stage scenes to hide characters faces so you can have conversations without having to animate anything. Save your animation budget for a couple outstanding scenes an episode that will be the parts that people remember.

Sure, you'd have a COUPLE of really outstanding hand drawn sequences, but mostly just in movies and the general quality of everything else would largely drop due to the increased effort to make it.

Looks like Fern Gully.

That's it! thanks user

imagine if artists got valued beyond their ability to accrue fiat currency

>Still pretty damn, impressive though.
Oh shut up, this shot was mediocre at fucking best, and its not a dig at Baxter's ability but rather the pathetically little he has to work with. The shot is pretty static and doesn't really have much to take advantage of either.

This bit if animation was just serviceable and the amount of people that go gaga for it shows just how easy people have become to please.

Why is this faggot always crying 8n every scene?

Because the real problems in Steven Universe are solved by emotional appeals rather than violence, usually because they are fighting forces that they simply don't have the power to beat into submission. Four people can't beat a galactic empire. But one person can change the mind of an important ruler.

Because that's what happens in real life.

>was this the peak of western animation?
>SU
>peak of western animation

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Avatar 1 was way more impressive than that and Atavar 2 will outshine it as well.

It's talking about the scene you mong.

SU isn't meant to represent real life. You'll notice no one gives a shit about Ruby and Sapphire being gay, just that "it's not allowed on Homeworld".

I mean, its unironically a better plan than direct confrontation in asymmetric conflicts. Terrorism has the same ultimate goal, it just is based on fear rather than understanding.

But user, that was animated by Japanese people.

>We would have fewer animated shows and movies in general, and because of the high cost to produce such works would be incredibly focus grouped to be as safe and bland as possible,

But CGI costs far more to produce.

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Why are some line blue sometimes?

I don't see a single big budget Hollywood traditional animated film that costs less than the CGI alternative on that list to prove your point.

All your picture shows is that recent CGI movies have been expensive. Which is true, because duh. Disney didn't even HAVE 260 million when Snow White was drawn, no one did. Thats how inflation of currency works.

No, this is.

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>I feel good, a special kind of horny
>Flowers and trees depress and frankly bore me
>I think I'll spew them all with cyanide saliva
>Pour me a puke cocktail and take me to the driver

Kind of?

His mom essentially fused herself with human DNA, creating an offspring both Gem and Human. The problem is that this means she essentially "transformed" into him, and he still has her gem which contains some leftover pieces of her essence, which obviously creates a sort of existential crisis for him. Especially since all the aliens still see him as his mom, and he still has some of her memories. The most horrifying idea for him would be that he is literally just Rose with her memories wiped (which is kind of an interesting existential question, would it make a difference? If your memories are wiped are you the same person?)

This scene is after his gem is plucked out and he is splintered into two souls. This is him reconciling with himself and essentially confirms that Rose is gone, "Steven" is just Steven. Fusion in this series is usually a metaphor for some type of relationship, whether romantic, platonic, casually sex, toxic. But almost always associated iwth some type of care for the person. Steven "fusing" with himself is a chesey accepting yourself message, but it was definitely well done within the episode.

Still no. The average Disney cartoon of the 50s were better than this. This coming from a weeb.

Seriously.

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In fact, can we just make this an animation thread?

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Adjusted for inflation Beauty and the Beast cost 40 million dollars. 2d is hella cheap.

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You can look it up if you want. Most 2D animated films aren't even over $100 million. Princess and the Frog was only $105 million. Winnie the Pooh 2011 was only 30 million. You don't need an image or chart to know this stuff

>tfw Disney 2D movie never ever

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Take me back.

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