Agreed, however having those time saving tools tends to lead to a more homogenized feel to the animation than working closer to the “old school” process. They are a godsend for a commercial product these days, because without them a designer/animator wouldn’t be able to compete professionally with the people who have them.
If speed isn’t of the essence for a project, and the goal is to match the look of animation done in the old days, it would be better to eschew some of those processes, and stick to using some of the older skills.
Hmmm. I was a kid in the 70s and a teen in the 80s. I enjoyed the “older” cartoons all through those years, along with some of the new ones that came out. There aren’t many cartoons that I recall from that time period ending with a spanking, and they were plenty violent with no lasting damage to the recipients of the violence and (usually) no external punishment to the cause of the violence. It’s lampooned and dialed to 11 through “The Itchy & Scratchy Show”, the cartoon within the cartoon on “The Simpsons”.
I feel like your correlation and causation is askew. So many factors can desensitize someone to something, pointing to cartoons as being the cause for the problem is just too simplistic. It’s like trying to blame violence on violent video games. There are many vectors that influence how someone develops.
If you don’t enjoy modern cartoons because kids don’t get spanked at the end…
