What do the Japanese think of cartoons from the Golden Age of American Animation?
Cartoons I am referring to specifically are, Tom and Jerry, Looney Tunes Popeye ect. Since the Japanese are very well known for their animation today I would wonder if they would consider older American cartoons like Tom and Jerry trashy because of it's lack of detail compared to their works. I am not sure a common person would know this but if you do please answer.
I, as an american, felt a lot of animation that came out in the early 60s was pretty trashy, especially the stuff from King Features Syndicate.
Tom and jerry did not pick back up until they got rid of Gene Deitch and replaced him with Chuck Jones
Actually, the older mangakas such as Osamu Tezuka based some of their styles on the older style of Disney animation. In an interview (before his passing away of course) Tezuka explained why his animation looked the way it did and where he came up with such patterns. In a way, the Japanese might have thought it looked simply trashy, but in another, a good handful of Japanese cartoon artists found a door way to something new.
All in all, that is why some of the 1960’s and 1970’s anime looks the way it does. Astro Boy (Tezuka) and Cyborg 009 (I don’t know the creator) are prime examples of such similarity and basis. It’s people like Tezuka who provided an international bridge through an art style that made animation popular in many different countries.
Sorry, that might have not been too clear. Anyways, I think basically Japanese people might have found it different and neat at the same time because it was foreign. That’s sort of how anime made it’s popularity in the U.S., because it was different, and foriegn. A change from every day life. An artist living in mexico would thing the same thing about a painting that was created in Russia. We, as humans need different viewpoints on things. Simply seeing a different style of cartoon is such.
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EDIT:
If you think about it, Older American cartoons had a great deal of detail compared to anime back then (I’m comparing same time animation of course). Everything was hand drawn, and cells were prepared indivisually. It was Osamu Tezuka and a few other manga kas that came up with animation "Cheats" to save on animation costs. This would include making a single cell and doing different shots off of it during an entire episode. More repetative cells were also used in anime rather than American animation, and american made cells had much more color detail in the late 50’s early 60’s.
These are based on observations I have made between the two different art styles. It isn’t based on any referenced material or such, so sorry I don’t have any official resourses or sites for which you can study this.