did cartoons actually peak in the 90s or is it just nosetalgia?
>>151729783Nostalgia. Cartoons peaked in the early 2010s.
>>151729809Nope, industrycuck
>>151729783It was basically a continual peak from 1989 to 2003 honestly, with 1987 being the start of a ramp up and 2006 being the end of a wind down. The 90s are just the only decade that fully falls within that period.
>>151729783Yeah it's nostalgia. I tried giving Cow and Chicken a chance and it sucked. Yet people see it as one of CN's greats for whatever reason
>>15172978390's cartoons were the era after what was a executive-controlled dark age in terms of creativity and represented a new age of animation prosperity, tons of shows from that decade helped change television forever, Ren & Stimpy is what paved the way for all wacky and absurd cartoons like SpongeBob and Courage, Batman: The Animated Series is what paved the way for more serious action cartoons like Samurai Jack, The Simpsons was what paved the way for adult animated comedies (for better or worse) like South Park and Family Guy, Rugrats and Doug paved the way for slice of life shows like Arthur, there were cartoons from that decade that the industry would be very different without.Not to mention tv animation peaked in visual quality there, look at Ren & Stimpy next to modern shit like Stugo or Craig of the Creek and easily see how much we've degraded over the years. Modern cartoons are also far more sanitized and restricted compared to what was shown back then.
>>151729994Yeah this, there was obviously some bad mixed in too but overall the highs more than made up for those lows. It didn't start or end in the 90s, it went through them.
>>151730247If the animation renaissance started with New Adventures of Mighty Mouse or Roger Rabbit then which cartoon would you say it ended with?
>>151730363I don't think a singular cartoon ended it so much as the financial crisis just marking the end of those kinds of productions. Most of the decent stuff from after that was just older cartoons that ended up coming to an end somewhere around 2007 - 2008. Ed Edd n Eddy was probably the last real straggler if you put a gun to my head and made me choose one, since the finale movie came out in 2009, but that's more like a final dying gasp of that era.
>>151729783Hell yeah
I dunno. I also think it's nostalgia. Every era is gonna have great and bad animated content. Some are just.... more or less so then others. That being said i think I'm inclined to watch the more down to earth stories more then when I was a kid. The more wacky stuff is a good way to take advantage of the animation medium but it's difficult to balance without coming off as "so random lol"
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>>151729783the only toon in the OP I did not watch was Arthur being after my time of childhood wonder
>>151729783Zoomer here (though I did grow up on alot of 90s cartoons), I don't think it's just nostalgia. There was a level of artistry in both writing and animation that just didn't show through before and hasn't been met since. I blame it on corpo execs. The 90s seem to only really be exceptional in the fact that corpos just seemed more lax around that time.
