Why do people claim that animation was better in the 80s when it really wasn't?
Why do people claim that animation was better in the 80s when it really wasn't?
Parker Walker
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Luke Kelly
Its not the animation but a short sighted grasp to go back to the idea that animation before wasn't signalling as many virtues. Little do they know they did the same thing just tried to sell toys on top of that.
Carter King
> animation before wasn't signalling as many virtues.
Thats a DEFINITE lie.
Anthony Thompson
Same reason they think anime is better animated. Because they're judging based on the art style, and ignoring the fact that they move like cardboard cutouts if they move at all.
Jason Morales
>80s animation wasn't signaling as many virtues
You probably weren't alive or old enough to realize it then, but that was during the tail end of second-wave feminism, lots of women were heading into the workforce, and there was a lot of "empowerment" messaging going on, particularly in media--which extended to cartoons. There were lots of characters who people would backlash against now as "pushing the 'stronk womyn' can do anything men can agenda."
At the same time, there was a lot more inclusiveness going on with characters in cartoons, more diverse casts, probably at least in part to do with the tensions going on at the time. A lot of shows that were made in the 80s would probably get blasted by anti-SJWs if they were made today.
Nolan Bennett
>anime in the 80s moved like cardboard cutouts
Nah, you're a faggot.
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Ethan Reyes
Western animation did the cardboard cutout thing. Anime just used a stupidly low frame rate in most of their stuff, which in the end worked out better given the technology of the time but is extremely noticeable when comparing it to animation today.
Luis Nguyen
Because they're retarded.
Parker Cook
>animation before wasn't signalling as many virtues
Good joke, user. Good fucking joke.
Thomas Martinez
Beats me
Brandon Richardson
This. Anyone who judges from the art style alone are retartrd, since they don't know that sometimes there are good shows with bad art styles, like pic related, and bad shows with good art styles, like any cartoon from the early-mid 80s.
Cooper Richardson
reaching that boomer age of going over the good old days, i tell you what
Anthony Jones
80s cartoons have a weird duplex syndrome to them.
On one hand they are usually made to promote something, usually a toy line, but on the other hand a lot of them genuinely try to do the best with what they have.
He-Man for example reuses the same rotoscoped animations constantly but somehow manages to get a story of the week out there and some episodes are actually pretty good even if you can tell they literally were throwing any old idea into it without any thought of continuity.
But some of them really did genuinely try really hard. Like say Jayce and the Wheeled Warriors or Dungeons and Dragons.
And I feel you wouldn't get cartoons like that these days.
Elijah Lopez
>The idea that animation before wasn't signalling as many virtues
Yeah, can't we go back to classic nonpandering shows like Captain Planet?
Juan Taylor
1st grade level reading comprehension
Mason Phillips
nostalgiafags are mentally ill
John Edwards
Illiterate retards
Jaxon Thompson
It was a low bar and some shows managed to go even lower than that.
Grayson Ortiz
>And I feel you wouldn't get cartoons like that these days.
Of course not. Those shows came around to compete with what Star Wars was doing. Nowadays fuck that.
Aiden Brown
Akira was released in the 80's.
Daniel Brown
But we're not talking about anime.
Charles Cook
Outsourcing to Japan
David Williams
nostalgia
cartoons were at their best in the late 90s and early 2000s and thats not just my nostalgia
Ethan Sanders
Animation is animation user, I don't know what you want me to say.
Colton Sullivan
Ey Zim a Zam! It's a me, the pizza man!
Josiah Thomas
Ugh, KC's style is so hideous, I don't care if the show's the best ever. I wouldn't eat gourmet food that smelled like shit.
Eli Mitchell
So? That's your opinion. I say the show's better if the characters aren't fappable, because that means people can focus on actually discussing the show.
Joseph Ramirez
There's no way this wasn't a single samefag who just got mad after misreading 's post. I refuse to believe otherwise.
Ryan Jenkins
>food analogy
put down the fucking fork
Levi Wilson
Pffff. Bullshit. By then cel-drawn animation was on its way out or gone. You were left with soulless early flash-era flat computer shit. It's what led to the garbage that's on the air today. The late 90s-early 2000s was the death of animation.
John Allen
Except that, despite the art being more soulless, the writing was just as good as the 90s during the early 2000s. Shit only hit the fan in 2006.