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Wednesday, February 29, 2012

Where oh where have all the good cartoons gone?


The Disappearing Art: Cartoons



   Today when looking through my Facebook Feed I saw a posting from “Lady and the Tramp”. This was my favorite cartoon as a child, sure I liked “Cinderella”, I cried every time I watched “All Dogs Go to Heaven” and “The Land before Time”, “Fievel Goes West” will always be something I laugh at (Especially when I watch the parts with Tiger the Cat). I collect Disney movies like “Lady and the Tramp” and “The Jungle Book” and so on. However, this got me to looking around at the videos in Target and Walmart, where have all the cartoons gone? They still have the great ones from the past but there are no new drawn cartoons being produced today.

   It’s all computerized animations and Japanese anime comic book style, where are the good drawings and paintings of the cartoons we remember? Are these relics from our past and when we tell our children about them will it be like when our parents talked about Eight-tracks and Beta-disks? Something that they hear about and then say, “Well things have changed?” I like all movies, even children’s movies but why has the sketched cartoon gone out of style?

   Disney did and still does it best, their cartoons look like art works because that’s exactly what they are. They literally painted in the backgrounds and then drew in the characters. Check out the video and tell me what you think, new school computerized animation or old school and real human talent for cartoons?

2 comments:

  1. Its depressing!! Trust me there are not really any good cartoons out there any more :( My kids love the "oldies" better than the stuff on now. Max is a bit of a Dora fan and Yo Gabba Gabba, but other than that they tend to stick to the same stuff I watched.

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  2. yeah they were diffantly better than, old school disney all the way! lol!

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