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1980s TV animation history

1980s TV animation history

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1980s TV animation history

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- [Instructor] Over the next series of movies. I'm going to talk about how you would approach animating a period piece in the style of 1980s television cartoons the kinds of things you saw on Saturday mornings if you were a kid in the eighties or the nineties. So we're talking about TV shows like "The Transformers" "He-Man", "Captain Planet" "The Real Ghostbusters", "G.I. Joe", "ThunderCats" and "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles." "The Smurfs" I'm not going to cover they are a slightly different style. They are in a much softer traditional style. They always kind of stood out. But the other shows I mentioned have a very particular look. They were made in a very particular way. So there are characteristics of 1980s TV animation. They tend to have an incredible amount of detail or pencil mileage, much more complex designs actually than a lot of feature quality animation. They didn't move as nicely as say Disney characters…

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