I was watching Tenchi Muyo! OVA.It was done from 1992 to 2021.The season 1 and season 2 image quality if fucking absolutely great. They used cells.Then season 3 is complete garbage, it is digital.And season 5 is even more garbage, high resolution digital.What happened? Did the good animators all retire?Or is it impossible to replicate the analog image with digital tools?
If you spam old good new bad threads, you are soulless, just an automaton powered by nonsense from faggots who don't even watch anime.
>>292198223yes. only newfags will argue different so just treat their words the same as baby babble, they dont know shit from filet mignon
>>292198223>souless
>>292198223no, it became soulless when the product became lazy
anime died in 2007
>>292198223>cells
>>292199138interlinked
>>292198223>t. poser zoomerYou never watched the old anime exactly like that pic on the right until it was digitalized and remastered with modern tool btw.
>>292198244Good post.
>>292198223the art style here changed too, maybe they got a different character designer
>>292198244>zoomer seethes at being told things used to be better
>>292198244Retarded post.
>>292200574I'm 39 and think 20s anime is about on par with 90s-10s anime.
My take on it is that a certain amount of "pop" was lost with digital. It may have only been a matter of a millimeter, but with traditional animation the moving characters are not on the same layer as the background, they are separate entities. Whereas with digital, everything is all flat on one layer, backgrounds, characters, everything. I think aesthetically there will always be a greater respect for the extra effort it took to make stuff like that, not just painting the cels without digital tools and paintbucket shit etc., but the actual method of animating it as well.
>>292199565kek what the fuck does this even mean. you do realize every anime every seen was "digitalized" little bro. Watching an HD release of old cel anime doesn't make it digital animation.
>>292200715>I think aesthetically there will always be a greater respect for the extra effort it tookAmong pretentious hipsters, yeah. Most analog anime are really ugly and crude-looking.
>>292198223The animators forgot how to do shading using multiple variations of the same color, takes too much time, apparently.
>>292200715I like your theory. Even the less than 1mm difference between the cel layers might be enough to give or at least supplement the feeling of depth, which in the end *feels* more lively/realistic, even when the general design is less realistic.I once also saw an interesting video about how old Kodak film stock hat a specific color range, which wasn't tied to how the colors were in reality, but how they were remembered by the avarage human. In the video it was theorized, and I found that quite plausible, that this different color space actually feels more natural and thus relatable/pleasing because of it. Looking at the color space of old movies and cel based anime I'm pretty sure you can make a similar argument there.Then there's the obvious stuff like color shifting because of imperfect coloring, scratchy shifting outlines which are imperfections, but also make it obvious that what you see is a *real* thing, where somebody (sometimes more sometimes less) poured his craftsmansship in it.Not too long ago I watched the Escaflowne movie again and it, together with Vampire Hunter D: Bloodlust, might be around the best hand-drawn animation had to offer.
>>292198223I wouldn't necessarily call it "soulless" but I've certainly noticed a decline in quality compared to how it used to be done back in the 90's and 80's.
>>292200735It means if you're really some ancient fag who watched his old shits on oversaturated lowres CRT, you never actually saw all those placebo effects when it was released on VHS tape, unless you're actually watch it from the master reels and using cinema projection.
>>292200624Excuse me, did you just post NEW ANIME while complaining about someone else's post quality?
>>292200715So true. Zoomzooms just don't have attention span to notice.
>>292198223>"Any headline that ends in a question mark can be answered by the word no."Yeah, so the answer is no. In fact the ceiling for quality is simply just keep increasing along with its average quality every years forward.
>>292198223I think it depends but we love generalization don't we folks? I'm tired of the complete dismissal of 2000's anime however by fake retrofags just because 2000's anime was an experimental era and had no real default style like past decades. It's like not aesthetic, pretty or cute enough (besides some moe) for people to larp it on Twitter and post pretty gifs, 2000's anime discussion is just moe, shounenslop and pretty much nothing else.
>>292198223Why did American cartoons have an easier time switching to digital? I know they did it slightly earlier but still it's like the one thing they got above anime like only really difference is the brighter colors.
Shame most of old anime has pretty fucking dogshit stories and characters that make watching them a garbage experience unless you're a child who likes flashing lights.
>>292205948The best stories are in old anime however
>>292198223That was just the worst step in the broader soullessification process of anime
>>292204390Unless you watched the cels arranged live in front of you by pure blooded Japanese hands you didn't watch it
Notice how there's always one faggot constantly necrobumping the shittest threads from page 10
Modern animation looks like shit made in shockwave flash.Painted cells didn't have 100% sharp lines or colored borders, that's why it looks better.
>>292206335>t. streaming his low-bitrate anime from ad-ridden indian website on his substandar phone LCD.
>>292204635The average quality sucks.
>>292200634WellIt's not
>>292200715>Whereas with digital, everything is all flat on one layer, backgrounds, characters, everything.What if I were to simply move the Grease Pencil layers away from one another?
