We complain a lot about the animation industry, but what would you do to fix it if you were actually in charge?
We complain a lot about the animation industry, but what would you do to fix it if you were actually in charge?
Hire/promote showrunners who actually give a shit about the entire production process, not just whatever message they think they can shit out to make Tumblr happy.
Holy shit is that real?
Remove politics from kids shows and purge all the limp dick manchildren who just can't help themselves from letting their twitter feed bleed into their professional work. That would solve most of the problems I have anyway
Hire only based on merit rather than quotas.
Tell the showrunners and writers that your shows' intended demo is children, not people who think/act exactly like you
good lord you people are sad
Fire all the Tumblrites and Karens who have made animation a shitting ground for their personal issues, and make the industry about storytelling again.
Oh yeah, and stop outsourcing.
It's cheaper to fire all the nerds and tell them their fantasy waifubait is not coming back
And you're delusional if you think they're wrong.
They are wrong because cartoons are made by teams and writers. They are not made by a weirdo
if this thread had their way the cartoon industry would be filled to the brim with John Ks and eventually just become a microcosm of the Hollywood pedo cabal
>Like everyone says, stop inserting politics and obvious leftist ideology in kid cartoons.
>Make cartoons for ACTUAL kids with 90s/2000s style charm and humor, 20 something year old purple haired hipsters who need therapy.
-Get RID of that lazy ass Calarts shit and bring back diverse, fluid and unique art styles.
-More variety in genres, everything has either been magical fantasy or slice of life.
-Hire showrunners/animators/artists who actually give a shit about cartooning and entertaining their demographic and not just as an excuse to get woke brownie points on Twitter for people to go “YAAAAS QUEEN SLAYA.”
I really want to know what world you think we live in
Good animation is very expensive and doesn't make box office returns. The flop of Titan AE killed animation
I didn’t say anything about race or that weren’t enough straight white males anymore moron.
To be fair, most of those writers are like minded with weirdo showrunners. Not ALWAYS of course but often.
I thought Sasha was supposed to be Russian Asian.
Anons would bleed money and never get anything out on time because they're self proclaimed perfectionist who don't want to compromise.
Cartoons would go way over budget over the simplest of scenes because anons think they're animating some OVA or something
There'd be tons of cartoons involving sexual innuendo's with little girls that wouldn't even be timed properly. Tons of big titty women that don't have anything else going on besides their tits
Anons are just horny idea guys with a very weak understanding of how the industry works based off cartoons they don't like and Twitter screencaps of literal who's
Fire all dykes, SJWs, feminists, order more action shows and less dopey comedies, cancel TTG, make more obvious incestual vibes in the loud house and rehire savino, if anyone tries to metoo another VA or crewmember they get immediately fired, order more fan service in cartoons
Copy anime, but make it good/better
Add more politics, encourage acceptance and diversity
Motherfucker do you know what a showrunner does? They control their teams and oversee everything for a cartoon, ideally in such a way to unify all the collective parts to form a cohesive whole. They may not directly animate or write the cartoon, but they are in control of the people who do, so they are just as liable as the rest of the people who work on the show, if not moreso because it is their responsibility to make sure the end product is as good as it's going to be while still working within budgetary restraints set by the network.
So when I say "I'd hire showrunners who actually give a shit about the cartoons they're creating", I mean "I'd hire showrunners who actually give a shit about the cartoons they're running by hiring people who can manage disparate teams to create unified end products".
Think before you post you smug piece of shit.
The thing is that media sales is a two way feedback loop. It is easy to foist all of the blame on creators for 'inserting politics' but they also wouldn't be able to get away with it if it didn't sell. Now if you want to argue that the feedback loop is somewhat disconnected these days that would be a fair argument. But from my own perspective it seems like low effort, simple plot line, progressive (for lack of a better word) shows have taken over because that is what people are in theory watching. If something doesn't get watched it shouldn't survive, simple as that.
What I think is really needed is a more hands off approach to supervising animation and the creative process but also not being so generous with multiyear contracts. There should always be a stipulation that if your show makes [X] amount of money more than what you put in then you get auto-renewed for a new season, no questions asked no corporate meddling given.
Because I think one of the big problems isn't so much the creators themselves but meddling by corporate middlemen, trying to pander and 'brandify' things to the detriment of the end product.
For example, and please don't focus on the example itself but rather the point. The owl house was originally going to be much darker and mature before "editors" and so on decided that it needed to be toned down to fit the brand image. But what if they hadn't? How do they know that people might not be impressed by this new direction they decided to take? If people find it distasteful and the ratings plummet then so be it don't renew it. But how do we know that it wouldn't have done better if a more hands off approach had been taken?
Incest is for white trash
aww, is someone mad? maybe you should stop posting if you can't be so mad about cartoons, newfag
Have fun crashing the industry then
It's not that I think any of the answers in this thread are going to be any good, but do you guys ever stop and think, "Wow, a simple bot network is indistinguishable from my social media behavior"?
You guys act now like you're above everything and giving a shit is so "cringe", but before Google dominated everything and got you into your little bubbles we used to get earnestly weird and interesting shit. Strange people who didn't make sense to anyone and had little website shrines constructed around their behavior - not because they made us mad, but because it was fascinating to think such people existed out in the world.
Today, we have you guys. You're the safest, most middle-of-the-road kind of content. Posting and reposting the same old thing over and over without ever thinking or coming up with new ideas. Sure, we'll never build communities around your autism, but even if the spam pulls in millions of views for you algorithmically, you'll never be memorable to anyone except for as that annoying thing people were doing for a while. Like a modern hula-hoop, or a Tamagotchi, but not even fun like the old fads. Just bland and approachable.
Said teams and writers are filled with insane tumblr trash, the sooner they get sacked the better
She ra isnt female
>but they also wouldn't be able to get away with it if it didn't sell.
But it doesnt sell
>For example, and please don't focus on the example itself but rather the point. The owl house was originally going to be much darker and mature before "editors" and so on decided that it needed to be toned down to fit the brand image. But what if they hadn't? How do they know that people might not be impressed by this new direction they decided to take? If people find it distasteful and the ratings plummet then so be it don't renew it. But how do we know that it wouldn't have done better if a more hands off approach had been taken?
I actually agree with that, the original idea for the owl house sounded alot more interesting then what we got
are you really this stupid or are you just intentionally being this way?
I wouldn't mind less studio meddling but at the same time, working around limitations is part of the process and might often create the better product in the end. But despite all of that, what cartoons need are good writers. Then the problems would gradually sort themselves out
>Stop viewing animation primary as a medium for children and adults who refuse to grow up
>Encourage the whole animation medium as a art, instead of being used as a cheap fodder for childish entertainment. And then try to step it's value up onto the same level as live-action media
>Encourage the workplaces and creators to be more daring and risky, and use the medium to tell new kinds of stories stylistically that live-action cannot do.
>Actively encourage studios and creators to avoid cheap tropes and concepts that are commonly used in various products.
>Actively give more attention to animation that's outside of USA and Canada
>Stop giving the American TV animation industry attention for it's subpar media that actively brings down the whole animation medium down
>New studios in other countries that focus on producing media for adults or teenagers, instead of just being for kids and childish adults
>Establish new rules that actively forbids any sense of workplace/ideology toxicity and general gossip
This is how you fix it. The real problem with animation at this moment is that it's hugely dominated by the toxic USA/Canada animation industry that has a real iron grip on the global industry, to the point where they actively try to bring it down for the sake of their profits and sheer greed for superficial needs.