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I also find his comment about emulating old mics and recording booths from the Loony Toons era with modern mics interesting too because you absolutely can do the same with recreating old cartoon artstyles on modern hardware if given enough time and care to reproduce it.
I'll give two great examples:
There's a youtuber by a guy called Harry Gold who based on his twitter and Instagram was a former writer and illustrator for MAD Magazine in Australia. He's made videos since 2020, but gained particular notoriety when he put out a video dunking on Nickelodeon's shitty "artstyles" tweet of spongebob in "different cartoon shows" by actually making it look show-accurate.
He'd go on to make a few more videos from other cartoon companies, but I'll also link this video below timestamped where he (humorously, cringely) explains how to achieve that old cel animation look from Rugrats.
The next example is YinyangGio14, a Twitter artist that also gained notoriety by recreating the look of Season 1 Spongebob from frames of the modern seasons. And they are phenomenal.
He's got other great art recreating old 90s (even modern) cartoon frames on his accounts if you want to look through that.
But yes, taking the time to get the look and aesthetic of old cartoons down takes a lot of time and care, and companies aren't about "artistic quality", they just need something quick and easy sent out to the masses as fast as possible, no time for experimenting.
I'll give two great examples:
There's a youtuber by a guy called Harry Gold who based on his twitter and Instagram was a former writer and illustrator for MAD Magazine in Australia. He's made videos since 2020, but gained particular notoriety when he put out a video dunking on Nickelodeon's shitty "artstyles" tweet of spongebob in "different cartoon shows" by actually making it look show-accurate.
The next example is YinyangGio14, a Twitter artist that also gained notoriety by recreating the look of Season 1 Spongebob from frames of the modern seasons. And they are phenomenal.
He's got other great art recreating old 90s (even modern) cartoon frames on his accounts if you want to look through that.
But yes, taking the time to get the look and aesthetic of old cartoons down takes a lot of time and care, and companies aren't about "artistic quality", they just need something quick and easy sent out to the masses as fast as possible, no time for experimenting.
