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

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.