American cartoons

I love how crazy everyone is and how all those fictional locales are Worlds of Ham. Everything is so wonderfully over-the-top that Willing Suspension of Disbelief gets thrown out the window and comes back smacking you in the head. True, if any of us actually lived in those cities, we'd go nuts within a week, but they're mad fun to observe from a distance.

Of course, all this means that they are very susceptible to Flanderization, and there is indeed too much of a good thing. Less adept writers end up making the characters annoying caricatures and the situations ridiculous rather than ridiculously funny. But done right, American cartoons are a great way to spend an afternoon.

And Japanese animation was highly influenced by Western Animation, but that's a totally different story.

I don't think any type of animation can really be simplified to one type, because animation, like live action, is a wide and varied medium.

edited 20th Mar '11 12:10:54 PM by Scardoll