>>106838664Everyone says that, but that's not completely the truth. Jay Ward's cartoons (Rocky and Bullwinkle, George of the Jungle, ect.) were produced on budgets that made Filmation look like Disney, yet they still look great, and most 50s and 60s anime literally couldn't afford inbetweens, yet they still hold up fine today
The real issue is that they had no idea how to manage said budget.
They insisted on using pure realism for all of the main characters. From a production realism is literally the worst style to animate in. It takes ages to get a single frame out, it's really hard to get good expression without using exaggeration, and is obviously really hard to do.
That's why both anime and disney, while otherwise completely based in realism, simplify and exaggerate the facial features. A realistic face costs way too much to do and 99.9% of the time looks like shit even if you do have the money
They also insisted that everything always be on model and there never be any animation errors. This lead to super stiff animation because, in addition to having to work within budget, the animators couldn't make any mistakes at all AND also had to put their shit out on time
Finally, they loved making action shows. Action is literally the most expensive genre to do. You need to have full animation for all of the important scenes, and unlike comedy you need to make sure every drawing is really well done in order to keep it believable. This lead to Filmation making a ton of action shows with very little action
