Poll of the Day > Why do so many adult animated comedies look like shit?

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PK_Spam
12/04/18 5:06:23 PM
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Take a look at some of Hulus shows, like Fugget About It or The Awesomes, and I bring them up not because Ive seen the entirety of both shows and can offer a nice, lengthy criticism of both, but because Ive seen their posters and watched, like, 3 minutes of each show, and came away wondering how any business could ever allow anything so lazily animated to air internationally.

Im sure none of these artists want to draw this shit, and Im definitely sure nobody wants to see them, so why did either of these shows go on for more than one season. Why are we limiting ourselves to mediocre animation and subpar, tepid humor, when I can just go on YouTube, click on literally any amateur comedy writers channel that has subpar lighting/staging/costuming/whatever, and STILL agent a chuckle out because theres more effort put into their $10 budget production than a several thousand dollar show that has a staffed writers room, several editors, and actual, trained script supervisors who are supposed to slap these lame ass screenplays out of the writers hands, and then slap the writer and laugh them out of the room.

Why do any of these things get funded when we have shit like Bojack Horseman, which continuously raises the bar when it comes to pure storytelling skill?
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Aculo
12/04/18 5:09:10 PM
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ok
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Blorfenburger
12/04/18 5:28:17 PM
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Yeah family guy and other seth mcfarlane shows suck
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PK_Spam
12/04/18 5:31:57 PM
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Eh, Family Guy at least has its moments where the animators TRY
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Mead
12/04/18 5:37:39 PM
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Most kids animated shows look like shit nowadays too
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PK_Spam
12/04/18 5:39:31 PM
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Mead posted...
Most kids animated shows look like shit nowadays too

What? If anything, were in an animation golden age for childrens cartoons. Look at steven universe, and adventure time, and Craig of the Creek, and uh... that one Nickelodeon show with the rural kids and their dad moving to the city. Big city greens?

All of those, and more, and HELLA inspired, and just fun to watch.
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Mead
12/04/18 5:43:17 PM
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The animation style that is popular nowadays looks like total ass. Look at the new Thundercats compared to the original.
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PK_Spam
12/04/18 5:44:36 PM
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Mead posted...
The animation style that is popular nowadays looks like total ass. Look at the new Thundercats compared to the original.

The original thundercats was horribly animated. What are you talking about.

Detailed character models does not equal good animation
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Mead
12/04/18 5:45:26 PM
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PK_Spam posted...
Mead posted...
The animation style that is popular nowadays looks like total ass. Look at the new Thundercats compared to the original.

The original thundercats was horribly animated. What are you talking about.

Detailed character models does not equal good animation


What does equal good animation?
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PK_Spam
12/04/18 5:49:59 PM
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Mead posted...
PK_Spam posted...
Mead posted...
The animation style that is popular nowadays looks like total ass. Look at the new Thundercats compared to the original.

The original thundercats was horribly animated. What are you talking about.

Detailed character models does not equal good animation


What does equal good animation?


Watch Kill la Kill, or some of the songs in Steven Universe, or, like, the entirety of the Pokmon Sun and Moon anime.

Thats good animation
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PK_Spam
12/04/18 5:51:50 PM
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Or K-On, so you can see the importance of a well-detailed setting in a show
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Mead
12/04/18 5:57:11 PM
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PK_Spam posted...
Mead posted...
PK_Spam posted...
Mead posted...
The animation style that is popular nowadays looks like total ass. Look at the new Thundercats compared to the original.

The original thundercats was horribly animated. What are you talking about.

Detailed character models does not equal good animation


What does equal good animation?


Watch Kill la Kill, or some of the songs in Steven Universe, or, like, the entirety of the Pokmon Sun and Moon anime.

Thats good animation


Im not gonna watch any of those
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PK_Spam
12/04/18 5:58:49 PM
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Thats fine I guess

But its clear you dont know what actual good animation is anyway.
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Mead
12/04/18 5:59:49 PM
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PK_Spam posted...
Thats fine I guess

But its clear you dont know what actual good animation is anyway.


If its clear can you explain? Cause to me a detailed animation style looks much better
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PK_Spam
12/04/18 6:08:00 PM
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Mead posted...
PK_Spam posted...
Thats fine I guess

But its clear you dont know what actual good animation is anyway.


If its clear can you explain? Cause to me a detailed animation style looks much better

Art style

Detailed art style

Animation is, yknow, movement. Dynamic movement.

Art style covers things like the standard Disney style, or the gritty and realistic style of stuff like Flapjack.
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Oops_All_Berrys
12/04/18 6:09:55 PM
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Mead posted...
The animation style that is popular nowadays looks like total ass. Look at the new Thundercats compared to the original.

CalArts style
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PK_Spam
12/04/18 6:10:39 PM
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Its difficult to have a show that has a detailed art style (OG Thundercats, Castlevania anime, etc...) because animating such highly detailed character designs takes a LOT of work. Theres a reason acclaimed studios like UFOtable went and simplified the clothing on Tales of Zestirias characters.

Moreover, shows with simpler designs like Sun and Moon/Steven Universe/Konosuba have a LOT aid leeway when it comes to creative movement, and it always ups the comedy elements.
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PK_Spam
12/04/18 6:11:53 PM
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Oops_All_Berrys posted...
Mead posted...
The animation style that is popular nowadays looks like total ass. Look at the new Thundercats compared to the original.

CalArts style

People have been warning about CalArts style since the 80s and it never once meant any single thing.

Nobody ever complained about Hanna Barberas copy pasted character designs though. Its almost like people only mention CalArts when they hear someone else say it first
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Mead
12/04/18 6:12:07 PM
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I guess I just dont have an appreciation for the simpler animation style

Cause its bad
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slacker03150
12/04/18 6:22:02 PM
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Honestly the awesomes is a pretty good show. I'm actually in the middle of rewatching it. A 4th season would have been great. Mother up also died too early. But ya neither had great animation. Never cared for fugget about it.
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GanglyKhan
12/04/18 7:38:40 PM
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>KLK
>good animation

Get this man institutionalized. The first Nui fight looked like some South Park tier shit.
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TheSlinja
12/04/18 8:07:27 PM
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love how people want to forget that every show looked like thundercats at the time, it was just as if not more derivative of its time
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Zeus
12/04/18 8:11:35 PM
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PK_Spam posted...
Take a look at some of Hulus shows, like Fugget About It or The Awesomes, and I bring them up not because Ive seen the entirety of both shows and can offer a nice, lengthy criticism of both, but because Ive seen their posters and watched, like, 3 minutes of each show, and came away wondering how any business could ever allow anything so lazily animated to air internationally.


....because the animation isn't the chief concern and Fugget About It has reasonably good animation.

PK_Spam posted...
Im sure none of these artists want to draw this shit, and Im definitely sure nobody wants to see them, so why did either of these shows go on for more than one season


When did you become NMB? At any rate, Fugget About It is awesome. Now go away.

PK_Spam posted...
Mead posted...
Most kids animated shows look like shit nowadays too

What? If anything, were in an animation golden age for childrens cartoons. Look at steven universe, and adventure time, and Craig of the Creek, and uh... that one Nickelodeon show with the rural kids and their dad moving to the city. Big city greens?

All of those, and more, and HELLA inspired, and just fun to watch.


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And it's just bizarre that you'd knock those other shows yet put on a pedestal shows with far worse animation.

PK_Spam posted...
Mead posted...
The animation style that is popular nowadays looks like total ass. Look at the new Thundercats compared to the original.

The original thundercats was horribly animated. What are you talking about.

Detailed character models does not equal good animation


Now you're being pretty upfront with your trolling.
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PK_Spam
12/04/18 9:16:20 PM
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But thats literally not what animation is. I dont understand your confusion here. You can have a very detailed design, but animating that design is a very different story because you have to draw that design over and over again for however many frames you need. OG Thundercats used comparatively few frames compared to Kill la Kill, which was super fun and inventive with its animation.

GanglyKhan posted...
>KLK
>good animation

Get this man institutionalized. The first Nui fight looked like some South Park tier shit.

Can you imagine not understanding a joke? Nui was literally toying with everyone, so its supposed to look low effort. Compare that fight to Ryuko vs Satsuki choreography and animation and tell me that Nuis whole deal when she first showed up wasnt intentional.
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PK_Spam
12/04/18 9:43:58 PM
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Really, I think this general attitude towards animation explains why people LOVE Castlevanias anime. Much work wasnt put into the action sequences, and if you REALLY pay attention, you can see dropped frames and very choppy animation all over the place. Its because the character designs are SO highly detailed, you can pause the screen at almost any moment, screen cap it, and then show it to any of your friends or your mom or something and say this show was beautifully made.

I dont think it is.

It saddens me that the new season of Pokmon, or the very fluid style of Steven Universe gets shafted all the time because people want their anime to look like anime, and think THAT is good animation, when actual animation has smear frames and squash and stretch all over the place.

Oh well, guess Ill be in the minority of people who actually like the work being put into newer cartoons. Or even fucking Ren and Stimpy, which famously had VERY varied facial expressions. But whatever.
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Mead
12/04/18 9:55:49 PM
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Ren and Stimpy was freaking gross
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PK_Spam
12/04/18 10:05:50 PM
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Mead posted...
Ren and Stimpy was freaking gross

But it was gross stuff animated VERY well

And I take no pride is saying this, because Ren and Stimpys creator is infamous for... not being a very great guy. He groomed children for himself to fuck, and he kinda had a massive hardon for 20s era animation and thought every other style was shit. But hes a masterclass for inventive western cartoons
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StoneRevolver
12/04/18 11:06:37 PM
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Blorfenburger posted...
Yeah family guy and other seth mcfarlane shows suck

Aye, watch your mouth.
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Mead
12/04/18 11:17:01 PM
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PK_Spam posted...
Mead posted...
Ren and Stimpy was freaking gross

But it was gross stuff animated VERY well

And I take no pride is saying this, because Ren and Stimpys creator is infamous for... not being a very great guy. He groomed children for himself to fuck, and he kinda had a massive hardon for 20s era animation and thought every other style was shit. But hes a masterclass for inventive western cartoons


Gross
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MICHALECOLE
12/04/18 11:26:02 PM
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My favorite animation was the first season of home movies
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Blaqthourne
12/05/18 12:42:50 AM
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PK_Spam posted...
realistic style of stuff like Flapjack.

What?
https://imgur.com/Qft3uaG
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PK_Spam
12/05/18 12:51:44 AM
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Blaqthourne posted...
PK_Spam posted...
realistic style of stuff like Flapjack.

What?
https://imgur.com/Qft3uaG

Literally everyone outside of the main trio looks dirty and grubby and thats the whole point.

Look at how dull the setting even looks. Theyre supposed to look out of place.
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Blaqthourne
12/05/18 12:53:07 AM
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But it's not realistic.
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PK_Spam
12/05/18 12:56:59 AM
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Comparatively, yes. It is. Its gaudy and ugly, and the supporting cast has noticibly duller, less vivid designs compared to Flapjack and crew.
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StoneRevolver
12/05/18 1:02:45 AM
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I hate the steven universe chunky art style and I wish it hadn't caught on.
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Blaqthourne
12/05/18 1:09:37 AM
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PK_Spam posted...
Comparatively, yes. It is. Its gaudy and ugly, and the supporting cast has noticibly duller, less vivid designs compared to Flapjack and crew.

Would you say Squidbillies is a "realistic artstyle" because it's comparatively more realistic than 12 oz. Mouse?
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PK_Spam
12/05/18 1:15:06 AM
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Fine fine, I misspoke.
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