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Ugly as a rule, now, rather than an exception.
What’s worse is that they have the ability to make them more beautiful and fluid than ever, but opt for ugly.
It’s interesting to go back and watch old Duck Tales and Gummi Bears episodes, especially the ones where the studio was keen on pushing quality - the season openers or sweeps week episodes, and really take in how well they plied their craft, and the pride they took in doing so.
Bruce Timm, for all else that could be said of him, also cared a lot about the aesthetic and mood created by his work, which is why his Batman The Animated Series stood out in that same era as Ren and Stimpy.
A recent series, meaning about a decade ago, that stepped up its animation game, ironically, was the Scooby Doo adaptation from 2010, Mystery Incorporated. It updated the technique of the animation as well as creating an interesting storyline for the kids and the dog to follow. Still semi-woke trash on several levels, but they at least still gave a damn about art and style at that point.
Ha I watched mystery incorporated with my kids, I think they turned Velma into a jewish lesbian by the end. It was implied, not overt, and I noticed her say oi gevalt which made me chuckle. I let them watch the original scooby doo from the 60s first and admittedly the animation was a huge step up.
Didn't Spielberg get deeply involved with animation in the 90s with animaniacs, freakazoid and batman? There was top quality animation then and over time things became cheaper and uglier.
It's disappointing that craft has diminished as mass production replaced it. We were promised quality art with automation, yet overtime all things degraded and became cheaper and uglier. Simple things were beautiful a hundred years ago, it wasn't worth making things poor quality, now it's not worth making anything of good quality. Everything is a race to the bottom to produce the most expensive product with the cheapest materials. The only thing people care about are the profits, there is no pride in products when people worship brands regardless of quality
Mystery, Inc left her ambiguously gay and/or jewish. There was a female character who was obsessed with her, but portrayed as mentally unwell, move that could have been interpreted as a joke about the deeply disturbed dyke fandom that insisted on Velma being one of them. It was, however, also ambiguous.
Spielberg was behind Tiny Toons, Animaniacs, Histeria and Freakazoid. Batman was just part of the Warners renaissance.
But yes, the craft has cratered over the last few decades to near Filmation or 1970s Looney Tunes levels.
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