Why can't modern animators draw?

They automated it to digital so you don't have to hand draw anymore.

you still literally have to draw on hand on digital, its just on a tablet instead of on paper
the end result only really differs in subtle ways because you transfer the drawing into the computer directly instead of incurring imperfections as a result of photographing a cel

With hand drawing you don't get auto-filling in the lines, changing line thickness to make it "uniform", getting to erase mistakes, getting to tween the animation together or puppet rig it, and other Flash/Toonboom requirements which their expectations basically make you use puppet show instead of hand draw

Explain the difference between digital drawing and hand drawing to me.

there is very little difference
you will get a few nuanced differences as a result of not needing to push a stylus as hard as a pencil to get the same line
and digital can produce much finer lines than hand-drawn line art, though a lot of digital shows do still start with hand-drawn lines that are just finished digitally
purely cel animation will also look more faded and noisy, but thats due to the transfer process

but the overall process is the same, someone makes lines on a sheet and then adds color

she tapers a crazy amount.

it is possible to use the digital tools to enhance the traditional process but no professional studio does this. they go balls to the wall with it to cknserve as much labor as possible. simply by drawing on a computer youve already chaved off 99% of the work traditional animation had to deal with but thats not good enough.

Because Digital Artists aren't REAL Artists. They're one step removed from AI art.

They're using puppet rigs. It takes effort to make them look good, effort that might as well be spent doing it traditional.

Literally the answer to every question of poor quality goes back to the executives

I don't understand why people still don't understand this. Quality animation needs an appropriate budget, companies are not willing to pay those budgets anymore, so everything is just slop.

Why do you always repost this shit?

Why can't Anon Babble posters be non bots?

Bingo. It takes just as much effort to make something look good using digital tools as it does doing it the old traditional way. The digital tools are there to save money. You can't shortcut quality, but nobody really cares about quality anyway. Just shut up and eat your nostalgia slop, kids.

Limited animation is actually better than puppet animation. I would rather look at good keyframes than a bunch of janky movement. Anyone else get what I'm saying here?

Because its a lie. Most artists suck which is why there isn't a renaissance of indie animation. At best, you'll point to Hazbin Hotel which is just lazy porn.

In comparison, we got popular executive driven shows through the 60's to the late 80's that stood the test of time cause the animators were top notch. And once those (mostly straight white) animators got a chance at freedom (thank you Ralph Balski & Mighty Mouse), we got the 90's renaissance.

Quit blaming executives to hide the failures of bad cartoonists.

I think to save costs they use a lot of copy-pasted parts of drawings (like the head, when it's mostly the same over several frames), and this makes the animation feel slightly stiffer and cheaper.
It really comes down to budget / costs / style ambitions, as you can see Family Guy emulating the frame-by-frame style for this gag:
youtube.com/watch?v=vS3N61E4V0E

I bet they can but they're not allowed to or just don't cate. Do not deviate from the story board. Just get it done before the dead line and take your measly pay.

now we are forced to indulge in abysmal dogshit

I think to save costs they use a lot of copy-pasted parts of drawings

cel-shaded cartoons had pretty blatant drawing recycling
often much worse than with digital because if they wanted to keep re-using a cel it had to be totally untouched
whereas even recycled animation can still be touched up to make it less obvious

The boomer and gen x animators liked to draw sexiness and other stuff from life experience.
Millennials and Gen Z grew up with no outside experience and grew up mostly online.

And sexless.

What's the best book to learn?

Do you mean drawing or animation?

A new one needs to be written

Drawing animation poses

AI bots

I legitimately think that digital is just flat out inferior to physical. No pencil to paper for actual feedback to get your line weights just right, not having to use actual paints or lights, etc.

Cause the ones that can either moved to Japan or do porn

family guy out of all shows completely nailing the old disney look while modern cartoons like animaniacs, the new looney tunes cartoons and tiny toons can't even look as good as 90s tv cartoons is beyond baffling to me

Because they suck ass and aren't trained the same as they were back in the day.

concept art

so much soul
glad they did not waste it on tiny toons looniversity

All the good ones make way more money doing freelance furry commissions than going down the wageslave route.