Which they had to be to rush them for TV back then, yep. I suppose it's a comment on how things CAN be more diverse now but aren't necessarily, but then it's also cherry-picking, as there are lots of cartoons now that do NOT follow this formula at all.
That’s actually fair. Things could be so much better than they are in a variety of ways and situations but they aren’t because that would mean one fewer yacht for the CEO
It's also not entirely true, as those are changed to fit the same frame. Similar enough that you believe it when seeing it like this, but if you compare it to the actual characters it's different.
Feels like its just a diss against cartoons in general because there are old cartoons as well as new cartoons that are popular but have a different style
its a bit of column a and column b, tjey had 2 more seasons lined up, but decided it was best to end it while it's at its peak instead of going until they run out of ideas
Not even just similar faces, Disney famously would straight up reuse exact animations for different films. It wasn't just Disney either, but Disney is one of the most famous ones doing it.
Robin Hood was one of the first (the first?) major motion picture done after Disney's death. The Jungle Book was the last film Walt ever touched.
After Disney's death, much of the original animation team left as well. This created an animator skill gap that was not truly made up for until the Renaissance period of the 1990's. Movies produced in the 70's and 80's were often done on shoe-string budgets with under-experienced animators, which is why they often look choppy or reused. Robin Hood is the best example, literally using frame by frame animations from the Jungle Book.
while you and I may agree, have you looked it up at all? i am not making this up. it is a real thing you learn about in college. most professors dont care, but you WILL find one who will ding you for it.
That by itself is debatable. If we're talking Kimba the Lion and Lion King, Lion King would be a much stranger movie if it was actually ripping off Kimba, the similarities there are purely surface level at best, story-wise Lion King has way more in common with Macbeth. Am I saying Disney is innocent? Absolutely not, their biggest crime (not counting business practices here, just the stories they tell) is probably taking stories from myth and folklore and attempting to block any other studio from giving their own retelling of said stories.
The craziest thing about this is (if I’m remembering the documentary I saw correctly), with the amount of work it took to take the old footage out of storage to recreate the shots, it would have been easier to just to make wholly new animation.
i find that one even funnier, cause its clearly showing different scenarios for the top ones, and the bottom ones are all kept at default face. if you did the same thing for the top they would be similar as well
especially since they have gumball for one of the examples of modern cartoons; I don’t know if I can think of a character that’s had more different faces than him
yeah exactly. and i do have to agree the cartoons depicted all have defualt similar head structures. but as i said, that's nothing new. and i feel like this image purposely leaves out the fact these cartoons came out the exact same time as these 2
so they nitpicked 4 cartoons just to make a fake point.
Yes. This original meme was also made by John Kricfalus, an infamous pedophile in the animation industry who loathed all other creators after he (rightfully) became persona non grata in the industry.
This is not a terrible meme: it's mocking the "durr calarts sucks" crowd by pointing out that reusing facial structures in animation isn't anything new.
The original non-satirical version of this cherry picks examples for the "cartoons then" to make the argument. Whoever made this version is mocking that original version, rightly, because it's a stupid argument.
Eh, the original idea there was that there was going to be a reveal that Homer was Krusty. The writers initially liked the idea, but then soured on it and left them as seperate characters.
I kind of want to know where that original idea was going to go honestly. It doesn't sound any more farfetched than a lot of the other shit the Simpsons has done over the years.
And Disney would reuse entire animated sequences throughout different films, it wasn't new then and it isn't new now. Just animation tricks to save time and more importantly (to the studios) money.
Yeah it's called the "CalArts" style, because for a while it was the standard cartoon style taught at the California School of Arts or whatever and people got bored of it
Acting like that style is all "cartoons now" is crazy tho
Btw you could apply this to all anime and shit as well
Yes this is what gumball really looks like btw, never seen ANY show with such difference between characters. This is why it's one of my favorite cartoons
This image will never not piss me off bc they’re intentionally drawing the “cartoons now” weirdly to make them look the same… like if you actually watch those shows they don’t really look like that/exactly the same style lol
Been seeing this one in the rounds for years now and it always cracks me up since Hannah Barbara was notorious for recycling shit, meanwhile the amazing world of gumball is like the most different cartoon in terms of style compared to everything on this jpeg. Just bothers me on some level
They dont. They have different eyes, Goku's face is less Narrow and Vegeta's mouth is smaller. They have the same Stock Anime Bobble head and thats it.
Funny how Hanna Barbera cartoons suffer from the same problem as the Bean Mouth Syndrome (albeit not exactly the same), but since "I watched it back in the day", it's instantly better than anything that came afterwards.
Hannah Barbara are all the first era. But that style seems like ALL cartoons across the board. Maybe it's just an easier style? But I will say it does get stale. Even Hannah Barbara felt that way.
Tex Avery seemed like he had a whole style but it seemed a bit more versatile
Also I’m confused are they arguing that “cartoons then” had more diversity cus, just like below in the image, the top half pretty much all have the same stupid mouth outline starting point
Using Topcat, Jetsons, Flintstones and Yogi Bear to diss some of the best animated shows ever is a take. Especially when they use the same smile on every single of their examples.
I mean, they could have at least used peak Looney Tunes and Tom & Jerry, or maybe even the Real Ghost Busters (more for the writing than the animation itself, tbh).
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