Why I HATE The "Future of Animation"

Why I HATE the post-Adventure-Time School of Animation "design".

College kids don't know a fucking thing about how to draw well with a pencil....

Here's the deal with poorly drawn shows like Adventure Time, Uncle Grandpa, Gravity Falls, China Illinois, Squidbillies, Family Guy, Seth MacFarlane, Clarence, Regular Show, and Steven Universe. It's an approximation of a line. Not one placed in a sketchbook or on computer paper by an artist, which theoretically is no different than that Pixar or Kung Fu Panda CRAP. It's not design at all. It's automated, autocorrected digital gobbledeegook. Not real art at all. Not pen work, pencil work, or line quality goes into it. Books like Bone, Tank Girl,  Calvin and Hobbes, and Spawn and many modern manga and bandes dessinee are all primarily still drawn  by hand. Hand drawn art in comics and animation has a certain textural feel to it. It doesn't feel pooped out of some PC processor's wacom answer to penmanship.

Graphics software and pen and ink tablets "autocorrect" mistakes without the artist even erasing any of his or her lines himself. It's just insane! The level of detachment an artist places between him or herself and his or her drawings.

When I see art I want to feel something. I want to know the artist took the labor and skill to put it there. If an artist didn't actually commit it to paper, you can usually tell by the feel. The drawing will feel automated, anonymous, empty, lifeless and hollow. At least have the decency to stylize some of your work and commit some of it to paper with ink and lead. Don't just hide behind photoshop all day. I don't care how many hours you're putting in. If you're not doing REAL Drawings, you're not doing REAL WORK, whether you're in Japan OR Europe. Pick up a goddamn pencil and make some good old fashioned lines happen. Don't be an automated robot cyborg. It will show. Your drawing won't be your own. It will be you're software's and computer's.