Something I cant stand in American animation currently is that the composition of the vast majority is done in the sitcom style. Where it's "shot" at flat level and everyone is just kinda standing around. I hate to make this an "Any Forums vs Any Forums" type thread but I wish we'd do more stuff like anime does in terms of visual composition and the use varying frame rates. Action scenes in particular don't hold much weight since the frame-rate is kept so consistent, there's no emphasis on a big attack or movement usually.
pic related the classroom pic, you almost NEVER see a shot from that angle in currently running cartoon here. and the Mako spotlight pic shows another thing, lighting. So much in American cartoon is flat lighting. Unless its nightime and maybe sometimes afternoon, everything is flat.
TLDR: I want American animation to do less baseline shit with its mise-en-scene.
you're not the target audience plus you probably dont pay for cartoons anyway
James Jackson
such a long nose for a japanese
Oliver Martinez
You probably havent even watched TWO of those you lying fuck.
Jayden Watson
Its not about being the target audience its about having an admiration for the medium. It can be better they just dont care to even try.
Luis Cox
Dont need to watch generic high school anime feces to know amphibia is better
Nolan Lopez
user I know you're only saying this to fit in to the contrarian mindset of Any Forums, please stop its embarassing. Besides the two are so different in tone and plot trying to say one is objectively better is absurd.
Logan Allen
Reddit spacing
Isaac Perry
the second spacing was unintetional
Kayden Garcia
Modern anime has some of the worst staging and lighting in animation, at least with shows like Amphibia there's intent in its direction. And that's not to excuse North American animation either, it has plenty of its own problems - but to act like anime is above it, when it's possibly never looked worse? Lmao
Japan got good at doing visually interesting stuff decades ago. The 1970s is usually called the dark age of animation in the West, but it's frankly the time period when a handful of Japanese artists were preserving and expanding on the ideas from classic animation, while Americans were fine and happy with the worst possible stuff that pushed zero boundaries. Shows like Conan or Heidi are like 45+ years old, and they're still strong and interesting. Ambition goes a long way, and it will show in the end. Not trying to make this an east vs west thing, I think it's best if animation if viewed a universal and regionless study where people can learn and choose what they think is best.
