Why is American animation so ugly and Japanese animation so beautiful?

[ElizaPam]

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[Jltakk]

Western animation can be beautiful. I think the more anime influenced the west got, the more plastic our style became. Instead of focusing on our own style, we just took from others. The development of the incredibly lazy "CalArts" style is also not helping matters.

I'd also like to mention that your average japanese animation doesn't, well animate very well, and their obsession with cheap CG is an obvious drawback that deters from their work. Meanwhile, Gumball had smoother animation than most of what I've seen from recent seasons (I'm only talking about TV series)

Just my 2 cents.

[MackToday]

Japan is basically an ethnostate. It's homogeneous and it works. Our society is nihilistic. Here there is no belief in right and wrong neither morally or in matters of art. The trash you see is the result of that. Nihilism only exists in the mind, there is a right and wrong way of doing things, as you can see.

[ChefPapiChulo]

How is any of that to do with how cartoons are drawn?

[MackToday]

@ChefPapiChulo Probably go back and re read or wait for more people to chime in. Maybe you can figure it out. There's really nothing more I can say to explain it to you.

[ChefPapiChulo]

I reread it a few times. I don’t see how any of that relates to how cartoons are drawn.

[DorkVader]

Anime is a very homogeneous repetitive style. It looks nice, but hasn't changed in decades. Art shouldn't all look the same.

[DorkVader]

Thanks for MHO

[saeyamazaki]

There's a difference between Cartoons and Anime. I find Anime so creepy even though I'm Japanese. I don't like it :(

[LordJesus5Ever]

Hey, don't hate on powerpuff girls. Also, the West made the last airbender too, so there are good cartoons outside of Japan.
That said, animation in Japan is a heavy industry with much more budget.

[IAMNathanael]

Your opinion is the answer.

But I do think big mouth is super ugly.

[Duckysback]

Right… “beautiful”

[ImagineSketchy]

Subjectivity. I know anime is cartoons but they have much simpler cartoons that aren't as "beautiful".

[Astarlessnightsky]

Its just a different style and your own personal opinion about it. 🤷‍♂️

[Shiver]

You mean artstyle? Or the actual animation quality?

[COMMODOREII]

You did animations that were the worst in the genre you know.

[Anonymous]

Because it's American that should be enough said. And in case it isn't americans can't draw for shit

[Trojan35]

I prefer American one.

[ChefPapiChulo]

Japanese animation is creepy.