How did animation fall so far in the west?

>>86699376
This video and image is suspiciously similar to an /a/ thread up right now.

>>86699376
Spooky.

>>86699376
Rising costs of production. Even with modern technology animation is expensive and time consuming.

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>>86699376

It's almost as if 30 seconds of animation is easier to produce than 11 to 22 minutes of it. We need to get to the bottom of this mystery!

Commercials have always had more budget per minute of animation.

You fucking idiot.

That's why cereal mascot commercials have been feauture quality for the past 30 fucking years. Where have you been living, under a rock?

And furthermore, kill yourself.

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>>86699376
TV corporations have been outsourcing animation since the 1960s. Since today's cartoons are aimed at kids, they know full well they can get away with the absolute minimum effort required to keep them entertained.

>>86700270
>outsourcing tacks on another 5-8 months in the production schedule to ship the storyboards/finished animations back and forth overseas
Wow it's almost like animating the damn cartoons within their country of origin could save time!

>>86700317
>getting this triggered
Take your own advice

>>86699376

A really masterful, veteran animator could bang the above commercial out in a couple of months or so. Writing him a check for $15k to that then another $5k to get it colored in Korea and edited together*sounds like they spent some money on some good voice actors though) is cheaper than putting together a studio and having 11 animators working round the clock on all aspects of a show.

>>86699376
That old school shit was so badass. I remember watching the old Disney cartoons. The details in the background. The artistry was like nothing else. Now it's so simple. Computers do all the work I guess. Like, it has no heart now

Why is Robin wearing a crucifix around his neck?

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Several things
1) It's a commercial, less time, more effort on existing time
2) It's from a company that had money coming in like crazy to produce cartoons so they could afford it
3) It was one of those studios that were churning out stuff for the theaters instead of just the home television. You want to see the kind of stuff going to direct to tv?

Here
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=brIA3Va-x-o

>>86699376
Commercials, especially animated ones back then, often have the same budget put into them as a 22 minute episode of a show. Take into consideration that budget is being poured into 30 seconds rather than stretched out across 22 minutes.

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John Celestri did those commercials. He has a blog and have posted some behind the scene stuff (rough sketches, animation frames, etc). Might be of interest to someone.

>>86706297
Why does this make me think of Nu Pogodi?