>>101909>cheapnessThe animation in anime made in the 90s is almost always of waaaay higher quality, with waaay more effort and care put into it, than the animation in animes made in the last ~22 years (where usually the animation is low quality as a result of comparatively much less care and effort being put into it due to many of the steps being automated with computers; the animator needing to do less and less, think less and less, becoming less of an animator and more a clicker of buttons that cause things to happen for him automagically, and needing to care less and less as sloppier animation is the norm and what's expected; standards having been reduced and most anime looking essentially the same – even when the "style" of the character design and backgrounds are different between several animes, the animation often is still similar; they still share a sort of "generic computer-made anime" look, a bit like how UE5 games may have differences in style but usually share "that generic UE5 look and feel").
Vidrel is from 89 though and isn't the greatest example to use for showcasing good animation but even so (and in a way precisely because of that; being visually nothing particularly remarkable for an old anime) it's an example of animation that destroys 99% of computer-made anime. Note the video was heavily noise-filtered before encoding; the source has more fine details.
