Animation vs Sketch, Old School vs New School, Past vs Future...Hmmmm

From what you see now, the modern animation technology that companies like Pixar use seem to be really beneficial. Everything would take much less time. You would no longer have to draw 24 pictures to get one second of film, but rather 24 minutes to get an hours of film. Well not really, but you get the point. Modern technology makes things easier for us. Technology helps us get from start, to the end result one person wants, as fast and efficiently as possible. Thus, this always seems like such a great thing. And you have to agree, the fact that the appeal factor of modern animation online makes us want to watch something more than the hand-drawn counter parts. I mean, sometimes when I see a TV show and its in black and white, it warrants an auto channel change. I think this works in the same theory with animation, the eye candy. We were born in the modern world where the majority of people will always want the newest stuff. You want the newest mp3 player or cellphone or game console. And from this, newer and better looking films and animations achieve the same end result.

But its too good to be true ain't it. The problem with modern animation is that they spend more time polishing and creating the 'image' that from what I can see, modern animation has dipped in the quality of the storyline. They seem to just pack as many jokes as they can into one measly hour and a half. What does this achieve? A few laughs? Because I doubt this will make many people come back for more. I believe that for the older generation of sketch animation, that had to put more thought into the storyline more so than how everything looks to keep the audience interested.

If only we could take the best of both worlds, now that would be a great achievement.