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10/10/10(Sun)07:03 No.41144290I can pretty much agree with what he's saying. Allow me to paraphrase another way that someone once described the problem to me:
"What
made the anime of old great was that in a time when the creators were
doing something relatively new, they had to have had some other talent
or interest before they got into animation. When people didn't set out
to become animators, when they planned on something else but found
themselves in an alien profession, a melting pot of talent and ideas was
born. As a result, for a long time, productions were made that turned
interesting thematic, visual, plot, and character elements into
something fluid and moving that anyone could appreciate. Something
unique, something that could watched not only because it was an
interesting work of animation, but because it was an interesting film.
As
time passed, the torch was passed, and the fans of the old works became
the creators of the new ones. These people weren't a motley crew
bringing their own experiences, their own knowledge, their own passions
into a burgeoning field. Their passion WAS animation, and so the only
thing they knew how to do was to thoughtlessly copy their progenitors,
as if they were learning to paint by watching a painter's hands. Fans of
animation put up with this because it reminded them of the old works
(while feeling like it was missing something...), the people who watched
animation as film left (there was nothing worthwhile in these new
works) and over time, the process imploded on itself, giving rise to the
stuff that is shoveled out today." |
