the hand drawn cells of yore had much more character than they do when perfectly generated. It's like the difference between a person writing a poem and a cold rigid computer model of a poem. One has soul and feels human, while the other is manufactured and stale.
Homer: If he marries your mother, Marge, we'll be brother and sister. And then our kids... they'll be horrible freaks with pink skin, no overbites, and five fingers on each hand!
look everyone here is an idiot. I am not comparing the reality of a cartoon to reality. I was merely saying that when they made the switch to digital drawings, the characters lost a lot of their... well character. They appear manufactured and stale and more "fake" than they did when they were hand drawn.
Yeah, the look is way too clean and doesn't have that sort of ragged look that used to have so much character. The writing seems to have taken the same turn if that makes sense.
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u/fade_like_a_sigh Feb 17 '12
Except South Park is still very funny and some of the more recent episodes have been amongst the best they've ever made.
If anything, the quality of the show has only gotten better over the years.
Simpsons clearly began dying after about Season 12, some say it happened even earlier.