Daniel wrote:
Have you honestly seen
any recent episodes? I of course have, and do see a more than above average difference.
And seriously, well below? This was
almost classic era material. Even some of the Simpsons harsher critics have admitted this.
GeorgeC wrote:You can also really see that the film betrays its TV origins.
How?
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Yes, I have seen the recent episodes and on average the Simpsons episodes today are NOWHERE NEAR as they were 10 years ago.
Also, be honest and admit that this is low-rent animation. This is NOT Disney-feature quality animation from the mid-1990s let alone the Golden Eras of the 1940s and 1950s. There's a big difference between quality animation of the Classic Disney era and what you see of these movie spin-offs of TV shows.
Sure, the colors look a bit brighter in the Simpsons Movie but it's otherwise your standard limited animation. It doesn't have those touches of "The Illusion of Life" that make the best Warner Bros., MGM, and Disney animation of the past stand head-and-shoulders above any TV product.
Come on, don't kid yourself on this one!
The Simpsons are mainly a product of good comedy writing and excellent voice-acting but it's
NEVER been a well-animated show on anything approaching a consistent basis.
I don't mean to sound like Amid Amidi, but it's kind of hard to explain why the older animation is
animated better than what we see today unless everybody's on the same page after having seen the older stuff!
There's a huge difference in the quality level. Get back to us after more of you actually WATCH the older Disney features, the WB Looney Tunes, and the MGM Tom & Jerry and Tex Avery shorts.
If all you've seen is TV animation produced since the past 20 years and you've never actually watched the older theatrical classics (late 1930s to mid-1950s is the range I'm talking about), you're just not going to understand what all the fuss is about the lack of plausible anatomy, stretch and squash, and poor timing/plausible physics in today's animation.
