What caused this art style shift today and can it ever go back?
>>156240641>What caused this art style shiftcost of living in Seoul, South Korea in 2002 vs today
>>156240641>top>white hobbyists and Japanese production companies>bottom>Korean animation studios who'll work for pennies
>>156240641Hamburger shonen
>>156240641There’s a certain look to 2000s action cartoons I can’t describe, the shading the fluid animation sharp bold lines the fact that even white characters had a tan complexion compared to now voltron is definitely the main culprit for this shift
>>156240641Digital
>>156240641gays and women
>>156240641That's an era which style was sweep away long ago.
>>156240641Always stand behind thundercats 2011 being the last good action western cartoon style, such a shame it was shat on back then
>>156240641All of the bottom examples were designed by Kris Anka, and he objectively sucks at design. Invincible's particularly suffers immensely
>>156241703He didn’t design Invincible characters
>>156241687Still weird that people didn't give it a chance.
>>156240641I’m vindicated on my position that all animators, regardless of style, need to study golden age cartooning methods>>156238758That’s the big reason why a lot of modern cartoon artstyles in general suck, even serious and action cartoons before the top images in picrel like Aeon Flux, The Maxx, Batman: The Animated Series, Spawn, Spicy City, Samurai Jack, etc. all looked great and unique because they came out of a variety of visual influences and were done by creators who heavily studied cartooning and how to draw in multiple styles, learning a lot of from them in the process. Bottom is just made by people who want to copy anime rather than combining influences to form something original. There used to be a time when most animators were expected to draw in any style.Heck, even exclusively in the realm of action I feel a lot of action animators would benefit from taking influence from guys like Jack Kirby and Frank Frazetta.
>>156241703The only good design I have seen from him was an old one for villains on DeviantArt, but they weren't used on comics. The rest is so horrible I sometimes wonder if he can see his own art
>>156240641Voltron Legendary Defender and its consequences. Cheap flat animation and coloring. It was massively popular and set the standard.
>>156240641Pretty sure all the top ones were still hand animated.
>>156240810You retards think white people are bone white
>>156241609Western characters NEVER WEAR SCHOOL UNIFOMSAnime characters always have this "side-ponytail" hairPantyshots always are part of anime.
>>156242162Voltron invented the "rectangle face" thing that every faux anime likes.In you screenshot you'll notice that every character have heads weirdly too big or too small for their bodies, and bodies are too skinny or too obese. The problem is anime style should follow the average design of human bodies, but California-Americans-Koreans didn't get the memo and made it too obvious, making it uncanny and weird.
>>156240641>What caused this art style shift today and can it ever go back?It's the Korean Amerimanga style. It's inspired by anime, character designs are by Westerners, but the actual animation is done by Koreans. I'm kind of getting tired of the art style really.
>>156243514It's done by people who would be rejected from actual anime work, not even doujinshi artists are so lazy
>>156240641you can NEVER go back
>>156240641Invincible looks nothing like anime
Voltron: TLD popping off.
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>>156241338Anon, you can't blame EVERYTHING on gays and women.
>>156247220NIGGERS AND SPICS! is that what you want me to say?
>>156247229Nigger gays and spic women?
>>156243514American artists hate anatomy and sexual dimorphism. It’s a weird political thing
>>156240696Avatar, Ben 10 and Teen Titans was animated in Korea
