Day 28: Something That You Miss

Free time! *nervous laughter*

In all seriousness though... Early 2000s cartoons mostly. You know the ones.

Grim & Evil, Catscratch, Dexter's Laboratory, Cow & Chicken, King Arthur's Disasters, Mew Mew Power, Battle B-Daman, Duel Masters, the first few seasons of Yu Gi Oh and Pokemon, Invader Zim, Ed, Edd and Eddy, Medabots, Dragon Ball, Totally Spies, TMNT 2003, Sonic X, Fairly Odd Parents, Kim Possible, Hey Arnold, Catdog, the original Ben 10, Johnny Bravo, Time Squad, Sheep In The Big City, Courage The Cowardly Dog, Codename: Kids Next Door, Lloyd In Space, Filmore!, Lilo And Stitch, American Dragon, Rugrats, Darkwing Duck, Duck Dodgers, Recess, Hi Hi Puffy AmiYumi, Samurai Jack, Robot Boy, Foster's Home For Imaginary Friends, The Wild Thornberries, Danny Phantom, Pinky and the Brain, ...

You see, there was this period of 2D animation that was GLORIOUS... Movies like Treasure Planet, Titan AE, Road To El Dorado, Atlantis, Sinbad, The Iron Giant... Animated so well and so smoothly... But then every goddamn studio in the world wanted to whip out their 3D modelling dicks. I feel like with the invention of 3D CGI, we don't get that same hand-drawn feel we got from older cartoons, and I think that's why I fell in love with anime, because you still get that feeling, especially from like Shingeki No Kyojin/Attack On Titan... I remember watching the Berserk OVA and feeling super frustrated about the 3D animation... But to me, I've always loved great 2D animation, even if 3D CGI is used to so background details and whatnot. I do hate overuse of special effects versus traditional animation, I know that a lot of anime does this, and I know when you have to fill time on a weekly 20 minute show you tend to cut corners, but if South Park could do stop motion with paper cut outs for like five seasons, you can stop using five minutes of glow and monologue per episode.

I'm sure I'm not the only one.

Nowadays, what I find is that the remaining shows with 2 dimensional animation all try to go for that Adventure Time kind of style, and I think it's really damaging the industry. It also looks fugly if you ask me. 

But that's just my views on it. I don't think kids appreciate what goes into two dimensional animation, I've heard a lot of ignorance surrounding it and as a sprite artist, I have to tell you, it tickles my tits. But anyway.

Day 28.