>>8969051>Sculpts and engineering improve as time goes on.Engineering might improve, but sculpts?
Sculpts always depend on the talent of the sculptors, so a bad sculpt can come out tomorrow, a year from now, and even a century from now.
Good sculpts have existed for millennia and if you didn't have a good sculpt a year or a decade, it's because of hiring bad talent.
One thing that hampered good sculpts for toys 40 years ago was just company policy, where they didn't care about making toys too detailed because they were kids shit. This changed in the 90s with McFarlane, who wanted to one up the entire industry, so he told his sculptors to go wild and take advantage of high pressure injection molding. So this brought on a revolution in the industry and we really haven't seen improvements since then, in terms of sculpt/molding. Still the same high pressure injection molding process since the 80s or 70s.
Only production has sped up, thanks to 3d software and rapid prototypes made with 3d printers.
btw, companies like Playmates and other "gross" toy makers had already been creating high detail toys, but they never applied that detail to anything but monsters and animals.