I actually really liked that show as a kid, it had decent concepts and story lines (unlike most other Sat morning stuff in 80s). Den of the Sleeop Demon was a good one, IIRC
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I reread the wikipedia page every year or so and it seems like solid future fantasy wrapped in terrible animation
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kirby & toth did concept work, gerber and evanier wrote - they were all really talented people - but the quality of american animation at the time was incredibly poor. not entirely sure why
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economics, I'm sure I don't know the exact details (federal regulations? lack of competition bc 3 channels? other?), but I'd wage $50 on that being the answer.
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sure, yes - but 60s animation seemed better? so, something changed, not sure what
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relatedly, i think these stylistic choices train our mainstream animators to make ugly crap for undiscriminating consumers, while the really talented people go into video game development where quality seems to be a much higher priority
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Replying to @LibertyFarmNH @MorlockP and
well, i'm not really familiar with the modern stuff, but it could be a question of different influences? artists in the 70s & 80s grew up looking at commercial art from an era focused more on photorealistic styles, even in newspaper strips.
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Replying to @mr_archenemy @LibertyFarmNH and
i noticed something related a few decades ago, when new comic artists entered the field. good or bad, they didn't seem to know shit about how to draw people - it seemed instead like manga and anime had become middlemen, distorting their perception of what people looked like.
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we agree on the core issue here: we are both looking at who the artists looked at for inspiration this is my same complaint about modern fantasy: the people who write it are basing it off of video games, movies, and already-third-generation-xeroxes of 1990s fantasy
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