Budgeted cartoons

Anyone who bothered looking at a behind the scenes could tell me what was going on?

>>89836356
They were all extended toy or cereal commercials made for the lowest bidder.

https://myanimelist.net/featured/1737/Anime_vs_Cartoons__A_Comparative_Analysis

I read this recently and it mentioned cartoons throughout the 60s-80s pretty much all sucked because of overreliance on cheap budget techniques

>>89836356
Almost every cartoon made was to sell toys and nothing more

>>89836356

Low budgets, that's all there is to it.

Even terrible cartoons every once on a while had decent animated sequences.

It reminds me of Mazinger Z, the anime looked like crap but the intro looked good.

>>89836682
Was Denver made to sell toys?

>>89838279
Denver was an exception i think.

>>89836356
>Denver the last dinosaur
>He's my friend and a whole lot more

What did they mean by this?

>>89836356
>All the colors were faded out

The reason for this one is because American cartoons were mastered on video tape in the 80s and 90s rather than mastered on film.

Because we outsourced out animation to Korea and Japan, it was monumentally cheaper to ship video tapes back and forth across the Pacific rather than film reels. So as a cost-saving measure, we started mastering cartoons on video.

The trade-off was a loss of definition of vibrant colors. DiC cartoons from the era suffer worse on this end than any other (try watching Dennis the Menace or Heathcliff and the Catillac Cats or Inspector Gadget and you'll see what I mean).

People often wonder why Japan can take anime done in 1985 and release it on blu ray in HD, but America can't do that with it's cartoons. That's because the Japanese didn't outsource their animation overseas (duh) so they could master everything on film. We couldn't.

Also why if you look at the rare cartoons that were produced in the US at the time, such as Filmation shows, their DVD transfers have vibrant colors and crisp lines. No outsourcing overseas, so they mastered everything on film. The downside is the actual animation in those shows is shit, but oh well.

So there ya go, OP. I know you didn't read this because it was too long. I'm sorry.

>>89836356

the kids from Denver are just the absolute fucking worst

I recall 80's cartoons having color errors in almost every episode being a really common thing. Shirts or hair would just be the wrong color for several seconds then back all the damn time.

>>89838565

thank you

>>89838565
Not to mention the few times companies did try to release cartoons using the film masters (Like Rhino with Transformers G1), it just made the show's quality look worse than it originally did. As the videotape versions were the finalized products with early animation errors corrected.

>>89838391
Dinosaur porn

THE TRUTH IS, I DON'T HIRE BLACK PEOPLE.

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>>89838565

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>>89838565
>Also why if you look at the rare cartoons that were produced in the US at the time, such as Filmation shows, their DVD transfers have vibrant colors and crisp lines. No outsourcing overseas, so they mastered everything on film. The downside is the actual animation in those shows is shit, but oh well.
So, you are saying that one of the cheapest cartoon production is now one of the best looking one?