why were so many cartoons ugly as sin?

[Kyle Nuva]

a similar problem with games, anime, movies and music, just because you think you can doesnt mean you should and too much ♥♥♥♥ gets approved and so does every bad cartoon and yet many things get cancelled and or has a short run and never returns

ren and stimpy

rockos modern life for starters were horribly ♥♥♥♥♥♥ up

doug was full of weirdos

wild thorn berries

cow and chicken

too many horrible batman joker variants

thunder cats go

teen titans NO

regular show and steven universe

as told by ginger. EW EW EWW

Pelswick... looking like phinas and pherb

[Out Of Bubblegum]

Money. They want something as cheap as possible to show. Gotta fill the time up with something.

[Jackie Daytona]

Originally posted by Kyle Nuva:

why were so many cartoons ugly as sin?

a similar problem with games, anime, movies and music, just because you think you can doesnt mean you should and too much ♥♥♥♥ gets approved and so does every bad cartoon and yet many things get cancelled and or has a short run and never returns

ren and stimpy

rockos modern life for starters were horribly ♥♥♥♥♥♥ up

doug was full of weirdos

wild thorn berries

cow and chicken

too many horrible batman joker variants

thunder cats go

teen titans NO

regular show and steven universe

as told by ginger. EW EW EWW

Pelswick... looking like phinas and pherb

While each of these shows has their own reasons... Ultimately, it's to save money.

Simple character designs are easier to draw. Therefore, faster.

[ṼṏẌṏḭḊ]

Just because.

[Volfogg]

Just an art style, I guess. Gross-out shows are also a part of the genre. Really no point in obsessing over it.

[Haruspex]

Originally posted by Volfogg:

Just an art style, I guess. Gross-out shows are also a part of the genre. Really no point in obsessing over it.

Yep, exactly. In the 90s gross out stuff was HOT, even going further back to the 80s. I'm looking at you Garbage Pail Kids.

Speaking of which:
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1897630/Garbage_Pail_Kids_Mad_Mike_and_the_Quest_for_Stale_Gum/
Yeah, that's a thing.

[Tiberius]

Whats wrong with teen titans

[Birds]

Disney has key copyrights on animation techniques and styles similar to those used in Snow White, B&B, etc.

They’ve held up in court.

That’s actually how Gargoyles ended up in the Disney stable. And Disney was so mad at being forced to go to court that they killed the franchise.

[Affronter]

So....you, OP, consider "sin" as ugly?

Explain.

[Bamford]

Lazy style, the more distorted the drawing the more margin there is for error.

Combined with the politics of mediocrity, less than ideal blob figures exist not to offend the fragile.

[Jackie Daytona]

Originally posted by Bird:

That’s actually how Gargoyles ended up in the Disney stable. And Disney was so mad at being forced to go to court that they killed the franchise.

You got a source? Pretty sure that's not accurate.

As I recall, Gargoyles was always a Disney property. However, they released it under one of their other labels. (Buena Vista, I believe.) Which was released in syndication on multiple networks. It's success led Disney to rebrand and move it to ABC. Which it had purchased.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hc7yQ4nX_8k
I could be wrong.

[Midnight Sky ✨🌙✨]

Ren and Stimpy being ugly was definitely part of the aesthetic.

[Birds]

Originally posted by Jackie Daytona:

Originally posted by Bird:

That’s actually how Gargoyles ended up in the Disney stable. And Disney was so mad at being forced to go to court that they killed the franchise.

You got a source? Pretty sure that's not accurate.

As I recall, Gargoyles was always a Disney property. However, they released it under one of their other labels. (Buena Vista, I believe.) Which was released in syndication on multiple networks. It's success led Disney to rebrand and move it to ABC. Which it had purchased.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hc7yQ4nX_8k
I could be wrong.

Article about it. Some forum posts. Gargoyles wiki maybe. Nothing I have on hand, and it’s unlikely I could find it again.

The subsidiary was a subsidiary of another company Disney owned, and was sold off in a bankruptcy settlement. When Disney told them to stop using the animation style they politely declined, so Disney sued them into stopping.

They promised they would return with a different style, but in a few years Disney had bought them out and had no intentions of reviving the series. Only granting a few contracts for reruns, the series having become something of a cult hit and generally pulling good advertising numbers.

[Mother 3]

A thing with 90s cartoons is that weirdness was the ultimate priority.
In your case with most modern cartoons, it's just being cheap, and trying to emulate 90s cartoons

[Kyle Nuva]

Originally posted by LiamDaMan:

A thing with 90s cartoons is that weirdness was the ultimate priority.
In your case with most modern cartoons, it's just being cheap, and trying to emulate 90s cartoons

but its no longer 90s and hasnt been

[choco_coronet_devourer_69]

Originally posted by Kyle Nuva:

Originally posted by LiamDaMan:

A thing with 90s cartoons is that weirdness was the ultimate priority.
In your case with most modern cartoons, it's just being cheap, and trying to emulate 90s cartoons

but its no longer 90s and hasnt been

Yeah but sadly they don't let go of the 90s