For a few years I've been unsatisfied with the style of modern cartoons, and I think I may have been vocal about it in this thread at one point .. I don't know. I'm just a little upset that every new cartoon these days is just overly simple in style. I've heard the excuse that animation is hard so things need to be simple ... but ... how did they make them more complex only a couple of years ago?? You'd think they'd be more complex now because of new animation technology making it easier to create a cartoon? But of course it's all just a trend, isn't it? There's been trends before, like when everything looked like Danny Phantom/Power Puff Girls with the thick, sharp lines ... but I believe there was more diversity at the time, like Ed, Edd and Eddy, Foster's Home, and KND (just off the top of my head). Is there any new mainstream cartoon that doesn't look like Steven Universe? I know it's targeted at kids, but family media fails when the creators direct it solely at kids. If you want your story/show to be remembered then you need to make it appealing for the whole family. That brings me to another point. I don't like how all the new shows are humour based? I mean, I don't mind it at all, but I haven't seen a real serious cartoon in a long while. Some do have deeper storylines in the background, but most episodes don't tend to focus on them and are instead funny slice of life or something similar.
And I know that most cartoons are all aimed towards children so my opinion probably doesn't hold much merit ... but perhaps if they had good cartoons aimed towards older people then I wouldn't be complaining? All the adult cartoons are like, you know ... that ... and while I know that many people like those kind of shows, I just feel like we're lacking some good story driven mature cartoons? I mean, Samurai Jack was good, but is there anything else like that planned? Did it even go well? Is there even a market for what I'd like to see?
And I know that most cartoons are all aimed towards children so my opinion probably doesn't hold much merit ... but perhaps if they had good cartoons aimed towards older people then I wouldn't be complaining? All the adult cartoons are like, you know ... that ... and while I know that many people like those kind of shows, I just feel like we're lacking some good story driven mature cartoons? I mean, Samurai Jack was good, but is there anything else like that planned? Did it even go well? Is there even a market for what I'd like to see?