Wow... never knew Tom and Jerry had great character acting and proper smears, makes sense why i loved it when i was young xD

Osama_TMZ said:
Wow... never knew Tom and Jerry had great character acting and proper smears, makes sense why i loved it when i was young xD

yeah I wonder how they could make that, like what were the deadlines like? and stuff, because anime can't afford to be that intricate for the most part

wilmau said:
yeah I wonder how they could make that, like what were the deadlines like? and stuff, because anime can't afford to be that intricate for the most part

I think the schedules are pretty good, a big chunk of western cartoons don't usually broadcast until they are somewhat finished... Actually, one of my old Korean friends worked as a freelancer on a few cartoons, one of them was Adventure Time I think, and he told me the schedules were really open and he used to complete his cuts long before the deadlines, so yeah, they are pretty nice practically.

wilmau said:
yeah I wonder how they could make that, like what were the deadlines like? and stuff, because anime can't afford to be that intricate for the most part

These Tom and Jerry cartoons were produced as short films for a movie studio, so deadlines weren't really an issue. The production circumstances were completely different from the ones faced by current TV anime - and the ones later faced by the creators of Tom and Jerry themselves after founding the studio Hanna-Barbera, which became known for its prolific production of low-budget, low-quality animation for television. The fate of Hanna-Barbera resembles to some degree the constraints that Japanese animation had to adopt when it went from theatrical features to television under Tezuka's Mushi Production. No matter the country, the constraints of television production have tended to make it challenging to create elaborate, high-quality animation.

Osama_TMZ said:
Wow... never knew Tom and Jerry had great character acting and proper smears, makes sense why i loved it when i was young xD

This isn't really smearing, it's a different, by-then establiished technique called "airbrushing". Real smearing like in the Dover Boys nearly got Chuck Jones fired and was new at the time.

And yeah, these cartoons can't be compared to TV animation. An MGM director and their unit only needed to output around 60 minutes of animation a year.