>>43162774>Television animation was bad guys!Yeah, because animation is fucking expensive and before the 90s there wasn't really a good way to produce quality animation within a television budget. However, because theatrical shorts were becoming less relevant television quickly became the only viable medium for short form animation for decades.
Of course, it's no different in Japan, and Japanese anime from the 60s and 70s was noticeably low quality. In fact anime of the era was noticeably lower quality than western cartoons.
>Name one quality american animated television show that during that time that didn't cut corners to the point it was immensely obvious.Pretty much any popular animated show from the 90s that people still care enough about to discuss.
>>43164712Adding to that, Heavy Metal, Fantastic Planet and The Last Unicorn
>>43166436It was actually The Ruff and Reddy Show that really popularized a lot of the money saving techniques that would define television animation for decades. The Adventures of Rocky and Bullwinkle and Friends was also heavily influential and predated the Flintstones by a year.
