Why were old cartoons so inventive, funny, and well animated and new ones are just talking head flash animations?

why were old cartoons so inventive, funny, and well animated and new ones are just talking head flash animations?

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Calarts

Budget

Everything has its golden age, user

there's like 6 funny looney tunes shorts

Because they actually had time and money to write and animate jokes at their own pace instead of having to churn shit out for syndication and toy sales.

Parody is dead and celebrity jokes are seen as dating it instead of being timeless reminders of the past.

Also, Vaudeville is almost entirely out of living memory. Most Looney Tunes gags were just stolen 100% from live performances with almost no alteration.

>There are people on this board RIGHT NOW who don't know that Marvin the Martian's helmet is suppose to be a Galea because he's from the planet named for the Roman god of war, but their grandparents understood instantly

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Didn’t know it was called a galea even back then. Info never came up in my life

The old animators had actual talent.

>knew it was a galea
>knew the planet was named after the god of war
>never made this connection
god I'm dumb

useless fact, many early animators were actually drafters, pretty much the best skill for cranking out precise drawings in a short period of time.

I dont know why, but I always love that dumb gag with things having goofy labels on them. Like Adam West Batman with all his Bat gadgets.

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It's a perfect, yet standard Jones gag.
>You have the setup of Daffy shooting a gun and the subversion of it just shooting a message
>Then you have the followup of Marvin shooting a gun as well but this time the expectation from the audience is that it will also shoot a message so we're taken by surprise when it actually just shoots him
It's basically the same formula all the Road Runner shorts follow as well. Subverting the expectations of the gag.

Have you seen the new LT shorts? Those are pretty good. Best cartoon I've seen in years.

The backbone of comedy.

Old cartoons didn't have any interesting plots though.

We're on too many layers of irony for actual wit to be popular.

> Looney Tunes
> funny
Boomers are so fucking lame

My grandparents wouldn't know shit about that

Things like Looney Tunes were shorts that played before movies in theaters, so they had more time to make them and a lot more budget. It wasn't made for tv animation.

I knew that he was dressed like a roman but not which kind of , The connection is kind of obvious

It helps that back in the '40s almost every major Hollywood studio (RKO, WB, MGM, Paramount, Columbia, Universal) had their own animation studio, so if an animator left one of them the others would be very quick to hire them again.
There is no way an animator today has the opportunity to draw full, theatrical quality animation consistently like they could in the '40s, so they simply cannot rack up the same amount of experience to become the next Milt Kahl, Rob Scribner, Bob McKimson, etc.

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Rod Scribner*

That's what happens when you treat comedy as the red-headed step-brother of drama for decades: nobody can be bothered to actually try when midwits are going to rate shit like AtlA above LT or Golden Age Simpsons.
Also these were theatrical shorts. Theatrical animation still gets effort/money thrown at it.

My grandfather was illiterate, no way he'd get that joke.

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fuck I miss BOGSposting

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kys

They were better because they were made by white racists.

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