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Prior to Cartoon Network, and computer animation, there was: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles X-Men Doug David The Gnome Care-bears My litt

Prior to Cartoon Network, and computer animation, there was: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles X-Men Doug David The Gnome Care-bears My little pony Hello Kitty He-Man Garfield The Littles Duck Tales Thundercats Simpsons Today we have: Family Guy Bobs Burgers South Park King of the Hill Simpsons 3D animation took over and if you can do 3D, why make it look like a cartoon? obviously there’s more… but just pointing out the shift away from cartoon.

LocalH 1y ago
It's very interesting how the industry spent decades refining the art of 2D animation, only for most of them to throw it all away when 3D became cheap and good. Especially Disney.
cogman10 1y ago
What do you mean by 3D animations? AFAIK, there's still a ton of cartoons produced using 2d animation techniques for children/teens, they are simply all done using computer animation.
fragmede 1y ago
> King of the Hill In case it's not yet widely known, KOTH is available on archive.org https://archive.org/details/king-of-the-hill_202103 https://archive.org/details/king-of-the-hill_202103 and coming back for another season on Hulu https://youtu.be/GleTI7jDWOs https://youtu.be/GleTI7jDWOs
autoexec 1y ago
Today there are still cartoony cartoons like The Dragon Prince, Miraculous, and Bluey but generally the decline in animation quality because of "3D" is noticeable. I keep hoping that Disney will make a comeback and bring us more shows like amphibia, owl house, and gravity falls (Hailey's on it was pretty good too). Cartoon network had adventure time, steven universe, infinity train, over the garden wall, Craig of the creek, Iyanu, etc. Streaming services like netflix put out cartoons too like Kipo and Hilda. The cartoon landscape is different now, but it's not gone and if you wanted to you could easily wake up early on a Saturday morning and binge great cartoons all day.
- reactordev 1y ago
  Blender’s grease pencil enhancements should help some but ultimately we need better tools for 2D cel animation in our 3D art tools. There’s only so much ToonBoom can do.

LocalH 1y ago

It's very interesting how the industry spent decades refining the art of 2D animation, only for most of them to throw it all away when 3D became cheap and good. Especially Disney.

cogman10 1y ago

What do you mean by 3D animations? AFAIK, there's still a ton of cartoons produced using 2d animation techniques for children/teens, they are simply all done using computer animation.

fragmede 1y ago

> King of the Hill In case it's not yet widely known, KOTH is available on archive.org https://archive.org/details/king-of-the-hill_202103 https://archive.org/details/king-of-the-hill_202103 and coming back for another season on Hulu https://youtu.be/GleTI7jDWOs https://youtu.be/GleTI7jDWOs

autoexec 1y ago

Today there are still cartoony cartoons like The Dragon Prince, Miraculous, and Bluey but generally the decline in animation quality because of "3D" is noticeable. I keep hoping that Disney will make a comeback and bring us more shows like amphibia, owl house, and gravity falls (Hailey's on it was pretty good too). Cartoon network had adventure time, steven universe, infinity train, over the garden wall, Craig of the creek, Iyanu, etc. Streaming services like netflix put out cartoons too like Kipo and Hilda. The cartoon landscape is different now, but it's not gone and if you wanted to you could easily wake up early on a Saturday morning and binge great cartoons all day.

reactordev 1y ago
Blender’s grease pencil enhancements should help some but ultimately we need better tools for 2D cel animation in our 3D art tools. There’s only so much ToonBoom can do.