But he’s an illegal alien!

@JSul3 We had the Fleischer studios cartoon on vhs when I was little. Probably why I like old school animation now.

@JSul3 Yep. It was a statement against corporate greed.

@Straylight I think those cartoons were masterpieces of animation, even though the stories were almost all the same. I watched them on TV as a kid, and I've watched them now and then as an adult too.

My favorite to watch has almost no story at all: circus animals break out of their cages and Superman rounds them up. I remember the use of light and shadow in the artwork was absolutely stunning.

@DrWatson I love the techniques of hand drawn animation and the skill and vision that went into making it.

@DrWatson Also paranoid fear of 'aliens' or 'the other' leading to mob mentality.
Red Scare tactics.

@Straylight I am not impressed with modern computer-generated special effects. Sure, they can look great, but they also look easy to do. When I watch them, I almost see software code passing before my eyes! In the old days, as you say, people used a lot of creativity and skill.

@DrWatson I don’t know a ton about cgi animation. I’m sure the in early days, it was a lot more work. But now that the framework is done and animators have physics engines and the like, it’s probably a much simpler process.
But that’s just my outsider view. Maybe im wrong.

@Straylight I once spent an afternoon in a coffeehouse, where the TV screen was showing a couple of superhero movies back to back (with the sound off.) I wasn't paying close attention, but I would look up from time to time. In the first movie, there was a scene where the guy flew through the air. In the second movie, Aquaman did a rapid swim upward through the water. It was the same effect! The same arc, the same rate of acceleration -- the same software, just with a different input image in each case.

*Yawn*