It's all so tiresome

All the technology of the modern day and this is the best they can do

>omg animation from the same era looks similar

It's always been like that.

>>212263969
Kiki sexo

>>212263969
>it's always looked the same
>it just so happens now they all look like repulsive Playdoe-esque, gumby bodies with zero cultural identity intended to indoctrinate preschoolers
>Things have always been bad, you're just bitter

>>212263969
Same production team and art director vs different production teams, art directors, etc
not the same equivalent
People get angry when it's called the CalArts style but it's true
All of these artists in the animation industry now have CalArt in their styles. It's in the industry's DNA.
They were taught by people with the same style, they ape that style, the cycle repeats.

>>212263969
AIsloppa faggots don't deserve to post opinions because they have none. Also it isn't that it's similar that's the problem, it's CRAP!

>>212264526
"AI slop", "calarts" and "beanmouth" are not opinions either.

>>212264636
no it’s just a distillate of the criticism of why animation has dropped so much in quality

>>212263969
Can't you defend anything without muh Japan? Jesus Christ

>>212263969
The difference is Ghibli is pleasant to look at.

>>212264924
And obviously little children (the target audience) enjoy watching bean mouths

>>212264924
So basically the children are not attractive enough. Yikes, my dude.

>>212263969
>One artist has unique style
VS
>Everyone uses the same disgusting bean mouth with pastel colors which exists only to make everyone look either mixed or a shitskin

also, ghibli's style is not from ''the same era''. they haven't changed much in the last 40 years, for better or for worse.

>>212264999
>pleasant == attractive

>>212263969
Spbp

>>212263898 (OP)
literally spent 2 seconds doing this
hire me Pixar you autistic faggot pedophile fuckers

>>212265604
Don't forget that annoying shit eating grin/smirk that presses 1 eye.

>>212263898 (OP)
People call it beanmouth and calarts, but i've been calling it grubhub brown

>>212263969
Impressive bait

>>212263898 (OP)

>>212264085
>reading comprehension
Sasuga retardo-kun

>>212265720
>i call it something that came later

>>212265187
bait = taken

>>212266940
tranny faggot

>>212263969
>slop :|
>slop, japan :O

>>212266940
>trannies hate seeing real girls menstruate

Sick of making everything about beaners nowadays

>>212263898 (OP)
American animation has been lame as shit for decades, this is even worse but even in the 2000's shit like Shark Tale or Over the Hedge were all awful garbage.
Anime that animates at 2fps is better because at least the art is good and they can do nice cinematography

I would rather watch Steven Universe over pic related tho. Hated that show.

>>212266961
I knew exactly what you were saying and my comment highlighted that. Sorry, I didn't allude directly to anime. You're a moron

>>212267258
>Shark Tale was awful garbage
Amazing how that movie still filters people in 2025

>>212263898 (OP)
SU got waifus tho

>>212267363
it was awful, it gives that 5 yo with a bootleg dvd abandoned at home feel

>>212267415
It was the first CGI movie by the Glendale division of DreamWorks, so they did what they could

>>212266961
>animation from a certain tranime era looked the same
>animation from present era America looks the same
>reading comprehension
Nah I think you're just autistic

Luca is kino. Top tier Pixar movie.

>>212267149
believe it or not, the middle one is actually Italians. Bottom is Chinese and steven universe is jewish

>>212267517
being first doesn't excuse being bad.
just because you saw it as a kid doesn't mean its good

>>212263969
No fuck you. You little piece of shit. The animation that happened on cartoon Network. All the shows look different during the '90s. The same could be said for most of the shows on Nickelodeon you're going to tell me that invader Zim looks the same as fairly OddParents or SpongeBob. You're a fucking moron. You're going to tell me that fucking dexters laboratory looks the same as Johnny. Bravo and Ed Edd and Eddie look the same or any of the shows. From what a cartoon that literally are different animators doing different animating styles. Cow and chicken looks nothing like anything doug has a unique look to it, The Rugrats had multiple different versions of animations that they used with it looking extremely crude early on and while we're talking about things that looked extremely crude early on South Park was another cartoon of the time which was originally used as cardboard cutouts for like an episode and then that animation looked unique and different. The Simpsons looked unique and different until they decided to make Futurama and make them look the same as the people from fucking Simpsons. It's more along the lines of lazy companies like Fox being like well, we could make things look a specific way or I can make The Simpsons and then I can make the Futurama version of The Simpsons and then on Netflix one day in the future 20 years down the road I'll make the d&d version of Futurama for nerds that looks like fucking The Simpsons. Same thing with family Guy and the American Dad show and the Cleveland show that's lazy shit. But at the same time they do not look like The Simpsons and they do not look like King of the Hill. You're post is obvious bait or all you do is watch Japanese animation from a fucking time period where everything look the same

Shrek is still awesome. It was the second movie by the Palo Alto division of DreamWorks (their first movie was the underrated Antz)

>>212268083
There are still hundreds of different animation styles today too, but people on this board are such plebs they don't know about anything other than the latest Disney slop.

>>212268291
apples to oranges

Invader Zim should've lasted longer

>>212268291
>There are still hundreds of different animation styles today too

where.

>>212267752
kys pedofag

Calarts Millenials ruined amnerican animation forever.

>>212263969
incels triggered HARD by this truth nuke lmao

>>212263898 (OP)
better than the dreamworks face

>>212267125
kek

>>212266940
Turning Red is the only good movie (media in case of SU) of those four.

>>212263969
>>212268461
It's a retarded equivalency. Who gives a shit if a lot of anime looked the same depending on the time period? So that absolves American animators of all the things that people hate about present day animation?

Plus if you wanted to pivot the conversation to anime so badly you could've made your own faggy thread.

>>212268561
Agreed

>>212268436
The Steven Universe and Turning Red creators aren't even from Calarts, they came from deviantart and other websites
The real catalyst for all this shit happening today was Penn Ward from Adventure Time inviting all these internet and indie comic artists to work on Adventure time. It made the standards drop like a rock since all these people could bypass traditional routes into work. They have styles based on the seattle comic scene and bad anime fanart

>What? Who is that?
>The author of the journals... My brother
>Is this the part where one of us faints?
>Hohoho. I am so on it, dude

>its ok when japan does it episode 912

>>212269290
Absolute kino episode. Too bad we never got to learn anything about his 30 years in some mysterious realm.

>>212263969

Sheeta is best girl, cry about it commie

>>212269666
She's definitely sheeta.

>>212263898 (OP)

>>212267752
It stands out as being decent during the current Disney dark age, and its shitty artstyle prevented people from giving it a chance.

>>212269490
>absolute kino episode
Nah, most of it is unfunny jokes (that webm includes one)

>>212263898 (OP)

I really want Luc Besson to make another animation movie someday

>>212263969
Weren't those all drawn by the same dude?

I think this movie was the first bad CGI movie ever made. It's just not an interesting or coherent storyline at all.

>>212270511
>I think this movie was the first bad CGI movie ever made
A Bug's Life?
The Incredibles?
Shrek 2?

>>212270581
(You)

>>212269290
seeing these simply drawn kids shows try to do "epic" moments looks so stupid.

>>212270670
This. Might as well have been Family Guy or something

Are you looking forward to the Zootopia sequel on November?

>>212270799
I look forward to nothing

>>212263898 (OP)
Animation today would look different if there wouldn't have been Shrek, or rather if Atlantis hadn't flopped against it.
After Disney burned their hands with deviating from their formula and ultimately sinking with Princess and the Frog the age of animated dogshit began.

>>212270799
Seriously, why did it take them so long to make a sequel?
One would think that after the success of the first one they would have started immediately with the next.

>>212271975
They plan their releases years in advance. Zootopia 2 couldn’t even be planned until they had released everything for the year.

These are made for babies. You are an adult who will never touch a woman. Stop watching stuff for kids.

>>212268083
I ain't reading allat my nigga

>>212272248
He said, while posting on 4chan.

Steven Universe went downhill in later seasons

>>212263969
Delete this.

>>212263969
It's not about it looking the same, it's about it being fug.

>>212274657
No it was always sloppa for emotionally stunted adults
No child watches steven universe when shows like dragonball z exists
>this HECKIN' cartoon healed my emotional trauma, a thread:

>>212272248
>These are made for babies.
Actually the non-zombified, non-Millennial activism version of Pixar from the late 90s/early 2000s typically made animated films for the entire family. Says more about the current state of Pixar.
>Stop watching stuff for kids.
People are generally forced to see previews and adverts for this slop because Disney funnels big money into marketing. Seeing the moonfaced beanmouth chink bitch from Seeing Red told me enough, I didn't need to watch it.

>>212266940
>>212267752
You guys really think Luca was good?
All faggotry aside, even the jerky animation seemed like low-effort trash designed to keep production costs low.

idk why but I simply don't want to watch anything cal arts. And this was before I knew "cal arts" was a thing. It's repulsive on some instinctual level.

>>212263898 (OP)
Gay style
>>212263969
Cool and kino

>>212270511
All CGI is ugly slop. Shit like Shrek is how we got where we are today. Anti-beauty, anti-tradition, ugly, weird, sarcastic slop for children and man children.

Reminder that the first Shrek movie looks very good for the time

>>212263898 (OP)
why did this particular hideous style become so common

>>212275312
It minimizes sexual dimorphism.

>>212275082
>This was considered attractive in 2004

Jesus Fucking Christ. Give me "beanmouth" over that any day.

Antz and Shrek were the first movies by the Palo Alto division of DreamWorks (which moved to Redwood City not long after finishing Shrek). It's true that Antz shows its age, but Shrek still looks really good.

>>212275506
The third movie by that particular division was going to be about elephants, but it was cancelled in favor of other projects.

>>212275706
July 1999 video in which Shrek and the elephants project are mentioned (Shrek wouldn't come out until 2001) Skip to 3:37
https://youtu.be/JP9pZ2sGVFw?si=Z8aP3C6oTnizvR6N

>>212274657
Oh don't start.
One of the biggest cases of too much freedom given.

>>212274657
is she breaking up with him in the lower panel?. Her head looks like the PBS logo.

>>212263898 (OP)
Honestly the thing I hate the most is how all these faces sort of blur into each other, you remember the style but not any particular character drawn in it

It's like the gay western equivalent of generic anime girl faces

>>212265720
>im a newfag
K

Shark Tale is the first CGI movie by the Glendale division of DreamWorks. That is the division responsible for the 2D movies (Prince of Egypt, Road to El Dorado, Spirit, Sinbad)

It makes perfect sense that they switched to CGI, because their only successful 2D movie was Prince of Egypt. They lost money with the others.

>>212263969
They had to come up with easy to animate designs that only got more detailed over the years because tech improved. The pixar guys have solved every technical problem in the book years ago and still opt to make their characters ugly.

vocal fry. upspeak. twerking. planking. and now this. the bean smile. the goddamned bean smile. i can't take it anymore. i'm going to kill myself.

>>212276217
Spirit and Sinbad were only finished because they were too far in production to be cancelled. DreamWorks already knew that CGI was their future after Shrek.

>>212266940
This poster is a genuine pedo faggot

>>212263898 (OP)
Who is forcing you to watch cartoons