Western Animation - Discuss American, Canadian, and European cartoons here (or just bitch about wokeshit, I guess)

[PrettySneakyCis]

As bad as American animation has gotten now, you can't forget how restrictive everything was in American cartoons of the 1970s and '80s. Networks even banished wild takes, as you can see in this memo from 1978. Fun and wackiness in our cartoons? Not on our watch, people!

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Transformers must have been a blessing to those people.
"In this episode, Optimus Prime is going to get literally blown apart. That cool with you guys?"
"Wellll.... we're gonna need to see his arm holding a gun mounted to a rooftop aerial and his torso turned into a fucking crocodile."
"Done!"

 

[Trilby]

Transformers must have been a blessing to those people.
"In this episode, Optimus Prime is going to get literally blown apart. That cool with you guys?"
"Wellll.... we're gonna need to see his arm holding a gun mounted to a rooftop aerial and his torso turned into a fucking crocodile."
"Done!"

I guess we could call this a bright spot, even though we now outsourced that overseas. It was still a dead period but we had a few bright spots.

Here's some tutorials of how they once did it..