[reactordev]

Prior to Cartoon Network, and computer animation, there was:

    Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
    X-Men
    Doug
    David The Gnome
    Care-bears
    My little pony
    Hello Kitty
    He-Man
    Garfield
    The Littles
    Duck Tales
    Thundercats
    Simpsons

Today we have:

    Family Guy
    Bobs Burgers
    South Park
    King of the Hill
    Simpsons

3D animation took over and if you can do 3D, why make it look like a cartoon?

obviously there’s more… but just pointing out the shift away from cartoon.

[autoexec]

Today there are still cartoony cartoons like The Dragon Prince, Miraculous, and Bluey but generally the decline in animation quality because of "3D" is noticeable. I keep hoping that Disney will make a comeback and bring us more shows like amphibia, owl house, and gravity falls (Hailey's on it was pretty good too). Cartoon network had adventure time, steven universe, infinity train, over the garden wall, Craig of the creek, Iyanu, etc. Streaming services like netflix put out cartoons too like Kipo and Hilda.

The cartoon landscape is different now, but it's not gone and if you wanted to you could easily wake up early on a Saturday morning and binge great cartoons all day.

[reactordev]

Blender’s grease pencil enhancements should help some but ultimately we need better tools for 2D cel animation in our 3D art tools. There’s only so much ToonBoom can do.

[LocalH]

It's very interesting how the industry spent decades refining the art of 2D animation, only for most of them to throw it all away when 3D became cheap and good.

Especially Disney.

[fragmede]

> King of the Hill

In case it's not yet widely known, KOTH is available on archive.org

https://archive.org/details/king-of-the-hill_202103

and coming back for another season on Hulu

https://youtu.be/GleTI7jDWOs

[cogman10]

What do you mean by 3D animations? AFAIK, there's still a ton of cartoons produced using 2d animation techniques for children/teens, they are simply all done using computer animation.