>>212746230It used to be that people would go to school for art and take all sorts of fine art classes, learning to draw and paint and sculpt in total realism based on real world anatomy and everything. With that strong foundation in place, the artists would find ways to make their own stylized, simplified art that still had some grounding in reality or broke rules with intention and understanding.
Now, people go to school for "cartoons" or "anime" and only learn how to draw the simplified forms with no fundamental understanding of the rules of real art, anatomy, etc, so you end up with uncanny bullshit that's not even based on reality. It's just copies of copies of copies, getting worse as time goes on.
You can see similar things happening in film and video games, where people aren't transferring existing knowledge and skills from one background or profession into film or games and adapting the mediums to their creative vision, they're just learning how to make films and games based on everything that already exists and it's all becoming soulless, derivative slop.