>“We wanted to style the new series off the best of the original, and as the original show went on, the animators got better and better at drawing the characters,” Swarr reveals. “Certain studios Warner Bros. had worked with in the past really stood out to us. My favorite one was the Japanese studio called TMS, Tokyo Movie Shinsha. I had a chance to interview one of the directors from that studio who worked on the original Animaniacs and got to ask every question I could. After talking with them, it was very obvious the studio had been doing their own thing and their own take on these characters - simplifying their anatomy, changing the proportions a little bit, making them more streamlined. So that’s what we did, looking at how TMS interpreted the Warner Bros. models, and went from there.”
>Nu-Animaniacs is stiff as shit, practically traces off of the model sheet, uses some of the OLDEST tricks in the book on trying to replicate cel animation without DARING to sullify the sanctity of what makes digital frame-by-frame look soulless.
How does this happen? Outside of the obvious "not even TMS today can match 90s TMS," it feels like here the creator didn't want to make an insult to the fans.
THEN WHY DID IT COME OUT AS AN INSULT TO THE FANS?