I miss the days where things like Liquid Television and Cartoon Sushi aired. It was an era where the. Back when MTV(Music Television) still play actual music and created cultural phenomenon. It was the birthplace or Beavis and Butthead, and Aeon Flux. The first time I saw Vermillion Pleasure Night, this is what it reminded me of.
Even children's cartoons like Gargoyles were more mature and better written then most of the crap we get no in the U.S. We need to see more stuff like Spawn and Sin City.
Re: Creative or Mature animation
Posted: Sat Mar 14, 2020 1:20 pm
by Iwazaru
Besides Spawn, also Maxx
Re: Creative or Mature animation
Posted: Sun Mar 15, 2020 12:32 pm
by Krizzx
The 90's was field with more mature animations.
I was sad at the way Duckman ended. They made it a cliffhangar to try to gain support to keep the show going, but it never happened.
Spice City was that type of cartoon that they would never make today. Violent and damatic with heavy adult themes.
Re: Creative or Mature animation
Posted: Wed Jul 20, 2022 5:17 am
by Rake
Basically anything Hanna-Barbera or similar
Humor grounded (in what was once) reality. Top Cat is a scumbag, Fred Flintstone hates his job. Authority figures are retards but not true antagonists. Made by highly technically skilled men who probably chain-smoked and had wives who made them casseroles.
Even the animals have hats and ties (funny).
Re: Creative or Mature animation
Posted: Wed Jul 20, 2022 5:25 am
by Cat
I don't know when it was officially decided that children's animation should be ugly and stupid, but it was very much the case even in my own childhood.
It's difficult to think of anything attractive at all besides Bruce Timm's Batman which was itself a mixed bag.
I'm excluding anime here, obviously.
Comparing the insipid and degenerated '80s and '90s to the creativity, talent, and care that was put into making children's cartoons in the '60s and '70s ought to get one asking questions.
Krtek
What is there to even be said about something without a single flaw?
Communication achieved through animation itself:
Wikipedia wrote:The first episode of the cartoon was narrated, but Miler wanted the cartoon to be understood in every country of the world, so he decided to use his daughters as voice actors, reducing the speech to short non-figurative exclamations in order to express the mole's feelings and world perception. Miler's daughters also became the bottleneck of the creation process as they were the ones who got to see the whole film first, thus Miler was able to decide whether the message of the movie was able to reach children or not.
Episodes produced from the '80s on aren't poor quality, but Peak Mole is up to around '75.
I recommend a legal acquisition, as the quality of the episodes on YouTube isn't great.