>communist funded scribbles start playing
>still better than 90% of modern animation nowadays
>Makes TV animation viable>Genuinely aesthetically pleasing in spite of the simple designs>Serves as the direct inspiration for 90s kino stylesWtf I love Communism now???
>>151696579Unironic backbone of leftist cartoon fans political opinions. (They inspired PPG. how can be bad?) Rightoids like anime
>>151696606Ok, faggot
I think the art looks nice
>>151696559i hate commies but its a fun art style, shame nobody actually draws like this anymore and its just the lame ass beanmouth shit.
>>151696559It wasn't though but Walt Disney did make baseless claims to try to shut down the studio since it was competition. Or are you all that retarded now that you think Walt was an honest businessman.
>>151696814Ok, sperg.
>>151697600https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Productions_of_America>UPA was founded in the wake of the Disney animators' strike of 1941, which resulted in the exodus of a number of long-time Walt Disney Animation Studios staff members.[2] Among them was John Hubley, a layout artist who was unhappy with the ultra-realistic style of animation that Disney had been utilizing. Along with a number of his colleagues, Hubley believed that animation did not have to be a painstakingly realistic imitation of real lifehttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Hubley>In 1952, Hubley was forced to leave UPA after refusing to denounce communism>On February 25, 1939, the architect Frank Lloyd Wright visited the studio with a copy of The Tale of the Czar Durandai (1934), a Russian animated film directed by Ivan Ivanov-Vano. Wright showed the film to Disney's staff, including Hubley,[33] who was greatly inspired by the film's stylized visuals and animation.[34]
>>151698074>unhappy animators started their own studio>never stated they were communist>but they watched a russian cartoon and liked the arthttps://alphahistory.com/coldwar/walt-disney-testifies-huac-1947/
>>151698074Land of the free.
Does it need to be stated the irony that the style associated with UPA was perpetuated massively through marketing products on television. Animating commercials for a living is probably enough to turn many arty-farty types into communists. And would you blame them?
>>151698011I accept your concession again, OP
>>151700000Verified
>>151696559Thank God the company died
>>151696606not everything needs to be ideological team sports. you can just like things because you like them.
John Kricfalusi was absolutely right about UPA killing cartoon animation.
>>151700000Confession denied, twice.
Yeah these guys hated beauty, and made ugly cartoons with limited animation, but hotsy footsy is hilarious.
>>151701851I think UPA cartoons posses a KIND of beauty. They're not the fucking sistine chapel by any means, but they are elegant in their ability to reduce information to merely a line, merely a shape. Some of this stuff is just genuinely pleasing to the eye, it's fun. Art can be silly and fun.
>>151696606>Rightoids like animeIronic
>>151698136Nigger he was a commie, stop making excuses.
>>151696559>/co/ is so boring that shitposters are ragging on a famous animation studio to get any sort of replywow
>>151696559Hanna Barbera often gets blamed for cheapening animation, but these guys started it all.
>>151704068It was cheap, but it was art. HB's television output was corporate slop, ripping off live-action sitcoms and comedians.
>>151704068Breh practically all "cheap animation" during the 50s and 60s aimed to copy UPA.
>>151703630There's a clear difference between refusing to partake in purity testing and being a useful idiot.
