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- Apr 19, 2019
Other animation types and styles take effort.It appears so many of the people raging against HH are angered by the suggestion from anyone that CalArts-Beanmouth style isn't the only way for animation to go.
Look at old simpsons episodes and then compare them to modern cal arts animation. Simpsons would stay on model and scale, where as they no longer teach animators to stay on model anymore for recent shows. This also translates to being unable to design characters with any physical depth in the scene which also hurts the final animated result.
Before people made their 2d Character sheets for films and TV there was usually some actual clay and wireframe sculpting involved. This was so you could work out your character in 3 dimensions before you put it to paper, it also made drawing angles for animation sheets much easier. At the very least you were expected to do a bust so the face would look on model.
Japan still fucking does this because it's ingrained in all aspects of anime itself. The very first Garage Kits/Third party stuff for unofficial merch involved nerds getting the character's hairstyle right on a pingpong ball with clay before committing stuff to a mold impression and pouring the plastic. Now this is what fans did, they mimmicked the professionals and later became professionals themselves.