I'm a mid-80s baby, loved so many of those cartoons, but while the 80s had so many classic characters, the animation quality was peak in the 90s. You'd see weekly cartoon shows that had almost movie quality animation.
One thing about these days is that big studios are just mass producing computer animated 3D stuff, so 2D gets pretty neglected.
The 80s was trying to sell you something else, so it needed to be quality enough to get you obsessed with the idea. The 90s was trying to sell itself, so the quality had to be within.
Both produced some top tier stuff for their time, though I think the 80s doesn't hold up well without nostalgia in a lot of cases, and without the principle behind it later stuff became a lot more generic and mass produced with the "linear storyline" often becoming the only common differentiator.
I'm a mid-80s baby, loved so many of those cartoons, but while the 80s had so many classic characters, the animation quality was peak in the 90s. You'd see weekly cartoon shows that had almost movie quality animation.
One thing about these days is that big studios are just mass producing computer animated 3D stuff, so 2D gets pretty neglected.
The 80s was trying to sell you something else, so it needed to be quality enough to get you obsessed with the idea. The 90s was trying to sell itself, so the quality had to be within.
Both produced some top tier stuff for their time, though I think the 80s doesn't hold up well without nostalgia in a lot of cases, and without the principle behind it later stuff became a lot more generic and mass produced with the "linear storyline" often becoming the only common differentiator.