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allieinarden · 6 months ago

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I’m just saying there was for sure a Simpsons writing decline from the late 90s on, but the correspondent visual decline is a severely underdiscussed facet of the problem and I have yet to see a lengthy essay about it from someone who appreciates the show from the art end.

#1. the colors became way too saturated and it was less pleasant to look at #2. the “camera” started to work way more like a sitcom camera where most of the 90s episodes have a cinematic creativity to the framing #3. way more slavish adherence to rigid character models #I’m also convinced that some unsung genius whose specific expertise was “comedic timing” moved to Futurama #they did lower the standards for the writing a lot but a lot of the same writers were still there. I think this was not all down to scripts #The Simpsons #I really really think if you took a script like the one where Abe keeps borrowing the car and gave it to the animation staff from 93-ish #the result would be indistinguishable from the ones they were actually putting out around that time #Anyway the modern show faded some of the colors on purpose (like Bart’s red shirt) to let the rest pop better because they know I’m right

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