Honestly, I couldn't disagree more.....Here's why....I'll try to keep this short and sweet.
Back when animation came out, animators/cartoonists had to actually draw the animated short frame by frame. Just look back at the clips from the DSs flipnote studio app. While those are nothing compared the early cartoons of the 20s and onward, the principle is still there, You have to draw the cartoon frame by frame. These early animators had to draw tens of thousands of frames at 24fps for a short subject that only lasted 7-10 minutes long.
I remember in an interview the famous Mel Blanc was in once (the Letterman show), he said that full animation was (and still is) expensive. He said cartoons made this way at the time cost 50k. It was 1982 when he was interviewd and at the time it cost half a million. Now just imagine how much it costs now to make a cartoon at full animation. If I remember correctly it cost GONZO, (anime company) a million dollars per episode for Afro Samurai. That's insane.
So what I'm trying say is that because animation has gotten very expensive, (thanks to things like inflation) animators have went from full animation, to limited animation, to CGI and the dreadful adobe flash. Now I'm not hating on adobe or CGI but these new animators have relied on these two "too" much. In my honest opinion, these two have take away the creativity from people since cartoons made with adobe look like cardboard cutouts on a 2D plane with no real movements.
Thats my take on why cartoons suck now a days.
