What's your favourite animation style?
 

Animation has many forms, what's your favourite style

Rubberhose/Vintage
hand-drawn/Traditional
Key Frame (2D)
CGI
Motion Capture
Stop Motion
or "Anime"

do you like simplistic designs or abstract and surreal designs

if you like anime, what era, the cel painted era or the current digital era

I personally like the Casshern Sins/Heart Catch style.





It gives off that “living toy” vibe.

A lot of hand drawn cartoons from the 80's and 90's before they got drawn with computers or digitally.

is it because we got old and are nostalgic? I remember when they made the switch to digital coloring and later all digital it felt so clean that I loved it. Then with HD cartoons started to look like flash animation. Now looking back at even digital coloring just looks so soulless.

I still enjoy watching old cartoons of course but I definitely prefer animation to be as clean and smooth as possible so I’d say 2D and CGI are my favorites.

I never realized growing up but some old cartoons use almost abstract, highly stylized backgrounds. I don’t like these. They come off thrown together. It’s like they didn’t bother because they thought nobody would care since your attention is on the characters.

Early Hanna Barbera cartoons do this. Looney Tunes too kind of. Certain ones.

I agree, what do you think of top cat?

You know what style of animation is missed?

Schoolhouse Rock animation.



Any of you guys recall the cartoon “Whatever Happened To Robot Jones”?

you should probably look up the animator J.J Sedelmaier, he worked on that and he also mimics other styles, he even worked on Beavis and Butthead too

https://www.jjsedelmaier.com/networkprojects
https://www.jjsedelmaier.com/retro

I can see that, I didn't know you were a magical girl fan

So what I meant is this...just shapes or outlines colored over with no definition. Top Cat kinda did this but the overall look was minimal. Early Yogi Bear and Flintstones too. Again Hanna Barbera.

https://i.postimg.cc/nzWMcV22/BC8-D4...1-F5-BCF63.jpg

https://i.postimg.cc/yYjxkTLW/BD65-A...E5-F5-F5-F.jpg

I saw this Looney Tunes episode recently again and I know it’s intentional but the background is basically nonexistent. It’s not that they couldn’t do quality backgrounds either plenty of older cartoons like Popeye had very good looking backgrounds/environments. I don’t mean they should be hyper realistic either. I mean they don’t look good.

I think I’m kind of realizing I more like the concept of magical girl than the actual genre itself. Like I’ll start a magical girl show (like say a season of Precure) and after about 5 episodes I’ll forget about it and go on to other stuff.

Granted I have been working on a book that puts the Magical girl against The Grudge. Brightest light vs blackest darkness.

I enjoy the fact that all four TMNT cartoons (1987, 2003, 2012 and 2018) are ainimated in four different styles.