>>116004241If they'll work themselves to death for their dreams why bother paying them more? There's no incentive from the management end to treat them like human beings beyond basic decency, so none at all.
Quality varies from show to show, but at the best level you have stuff that puts pretty much everything that isn't a Tartakovsky joint to shame for a tiny fraction of the budget and production schedule. For that I lay most of the blame with actual western animators and a pathetic level of creative ambition, even the most slideshowy of non-Toei anime can slather things up with a fine gloss of basic cinematic techniques or solid color and light direction that makes them infinitely more appealing just to look at than whatever CN airs. And most of that is borne directly from cutting corners and time saving measures, Osamu Dezaki made a career out of freeze frames.
Basically if you're an american cartoon maker and you don't work for Adult Swim by definition you are not even trying.
