# Sick of computer generated cartoons **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [March 10, 2019, 12:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sick-of-computer-generated-cartoons/830886 "2019-03-10T12:11:04Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Cindycat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/54ee81/32.png) [@Cindycat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cindycat)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2019, 12:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sick-of-computer-generated-cartoons/830886/1 "2019-03-10T12:11:04Z")
I saw the trailer for the new Lion King movie, which saddened me because it’s yet another remake of a childhood classic. What really irks me is that no hand drawn cartoons seem to really be done anymore. It’s all Pixar and computer stuff. I guess I just don’t see much character or soul in it. I like to know that something was made my hand. Am I the only one who’s creeped out by all the computer generated stuff? ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2019, 12:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sick-of-computer-generated-cartoons/830886/2 "2019-03-10T12:26:37Z")
The Frog Princess was cel-animated. But I guess that’s a few years now. Wasn’t Into the Spider-Verse cel also? It won the Oscar for Best Animated. ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2019, 2:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sick-of-computer-generated-cartoons/830886/3 "2019-03-10T14:42:15Z")
Well done CGI can be a work of art. [Cheap-ass slapped together stuff](https://youtube.com/watch?v=ZcDGyi_J97w), less so. ---
**Author:** ![Alessan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alessan/32/465_2.png) [@Alessan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alessan)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2019, 2:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sick-of-computer-generated-cartoons/830886/4 "2019-03-10T14:56:45Z")
As someone who grew up on whatever crap Hanna-Barbara were producing at the time, cheap-ass slapped-together hand-drawn animation is even worse. ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2019, 2:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sick-of-computer-generated-cartoons/830886/5 "2019-03-10T14:58:48Z")
> [@Chronos](#): > > The Frog Princess was cel-animated. But I guess that’s a few years now. > > Wasn’t Into the Spider-Verse cel also? It won the Oscar for Best Animated. No, it was hand-tweaked CGI. But I’m seeing around a dozen cel-based films in [the Oscar nominations for the 2010s](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Academy_Award_for_Best_Animated_Feature) (although even modern “cels” might be drawn on Wacom tablets instead of sheets of plastic.) ---
**Author:** ![RickJay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/bb73d2/32.png) [@RickJay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RickJay)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2019, 3:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sick-of-computer-generated-cartoons/830886/6 "2019-03-10T15:04:57Z")
I’d have to agree the problem isn’t CGI. It’s tired, mediocre CGI. In the hands of artists, any medium can be wonderful. Spider-Verse was awesome. ---
**Author:** ![digs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/digs/32/14889_2.png) [@digs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/digs)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2019, 3:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sick-of-computer-generated-cartoons/830886/7 "2019-03-10T15:47:09Z")
> [@RickJay](#): > > I’d have to agree the problem isn’t CGI. It’s tired, mediocre CGI. > > In the hands of artists, any medium can be wonderful. Spider-Verse was awesome. Yeah, I saw it with a friend who hates “Comic-y movies”. As the credits rolled, he whispered “So when we gonna see it again?” So I’ve seen it twice. The magic of it is the writing. It’s how you care for the characters, not just the animation. ---
**Author:** ![Thudlow\_Boink](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thudlow_boink/32/320_2.png) [@Thudlow\_Boink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thudlow_Boink)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2019, 4:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sick-of-computer-generated-cartoons/830886/8 "2019-03-10T16:48:53Z")
Nowadays, hand-drawn animation still exists, but computers are still used in the animation process (via [“digital ink and paint”](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Traditional_animation#Digital_ink_and_paint)).