I think this should be in YMMV because this is way too opinionated. What one might consider good animation might be considered bad animation by another person. The Simpsons is a good example. Although most people think that Season 2 is better animated than Season 1, some people disagree and say season 1 has better animation than season 2 because season 1 has squash and stretch and more exaggeration while Season 2 (and today's Simpsons episodes) have animation that's too conservative and too stiff. There are some animators who enjoyed working on Season 1 more than the later seasons.
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I somehow managed to accidentally copypaste parts of the Western Animation section on top of a South Park example... I did my best to undo the mistake. Just noting here if anyone was confused.
You forgot The Charlie Brown and Snoopy Show. As much as I want this to be on DVD, it had weird animation bump.
It's super effective.
- This also happens with American adaptations of tokusatsu (Japanese superheroes that were made into shows such as the Power Rangers, VR Troopers, Big Bad Beetleborgs). The shows combine American footage with Japanese, and the lines really show. Most times, the Japanese footage, which one is 8 years old and one is 7 years old when put into the new show, is darker and grittier.
What? Please elaborate.
- The thing about pilot episodes looking more expensive than the episodes which follow them is equally as true in Live-Action TV as it is in animation. In many cases the pilot episode of a series has more money pumped into it than any subsequent episode, leading to it having more impressive special effects than subsequent episodes, more location filming, and so on. Again, its all because the producers want your first experience of a series to wow you... after you're hooked it doesn't matter so much if cracks begin to show.
Sorry, but, citation needed. Besides, it's not by any definition "animation".
The image is, was, rubbish. It took me quite some time to figure out what was happening. No, actually, I don't know what was happening but I was able to figure out that i should read the tiny tiny tiny text of the subtitles that were clunkily cut out from a conversation.
The forum doesn't overrule discussion, it just makes another place for it.
The intro mentions the Japanese term sakuga and implies that it means "good animation", but it just means animation work-product, whether impressive or not. Is equating sakuga with virtuoso work a fandom thing now? Is this someone trying to make their own definition one user-curated website at a time?
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