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    Default On computer graphics and TV shows

    So I've been watching a lot of animated TV shows with the mini-fish and I'm wondering how some of the animated kids shows can get away with CGI so poor that if it was featured in a AAA title 10 years ago it would have been ripped to shreds.

    I mean the texturing is crappy, the animations are wonky sometimes. Although clipping and other anomalies don't exist.

    Any ideas?

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    Well, the hand animated cartoons I watched as a kid were completely horrible at times. They're low budget.

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    From watching some shows with my daughter, she prefers the look of better graphics but as long as the story finishes off where it started and everyone is laughing at the end she is happy to watch it.

    I also changed the rule about ovhd that day.
    She is only allowed to watch Da Vinci learning during the week now.

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    Yeah I don't think kids in the age-group the shows are marketed towards would really pick up on those kinda things. Low budget CG is easy to crank out, and like mentioned above, the 2d handrawn shows we used to watch as kids were also pretty bad compared to the big budget 2d cinema releases.

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    Ha back in my day we watched 2d drawn cartoons.
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    Quote Originally Posted by brendanvb View Post
    Yeah I don't think kids in the age-group the shows are marketed towards would really pick up on those kinda things. Low budget CG is easy to crank out, and like mentioned above, the 2d handrawn shows we used to watch as kids were also pretty bad compared to the big budget 2d cinema releases.
    Likely very true, the target audience really doesn't care (it's all flashy and loud with music and stuff).

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    Anyone remember Captain Powers and the soldiers of the future? This was in 1987 and almost looks on par with some of today's shows.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Apollo View Post
    Anyone remember Captain Powers and the soldiers of the future? This was in 1987 and almost looks on par with some of today's shows.

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    Ya, I had one of the ships and the power-on machine. Was pretty cool to shoot the crap out of the TV, but you didn't really pay attention to the story at all.

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    Quote Originally Posted by brendanvb View Post
    Yeah I don't think kids in the age-group the shows are marketed towards would really pick up on those kinda things. Low budget CG is easy to crank out, and like mentioned above, the 2d handrawn shows we used to watch as kids were also pretty bad compared to the big budget 2d cinema releases.
    I put Cartoons on for my daughter (barbie, sparkles etc) and she becomes a little melodramatic princess.
    With My little pony she actually behaves better.
    But put Davinci on and she is doing everything from magic tricks to explaining to me how to make stuff (and actually making stuff herself).
    So yea, some she is welcome to watch, others not so much.

    She also enjoys DBZ but that is my fault...

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    Ok, here are some examples of what I'm talking about
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