>>5964499>but at the same time the talent pool of cartoonist was so lowthis is because nobody wanted to draw cartoons. There wasn't any respect in drawing it. Just like when you were a kid and your art teacher told you not to draw anime. There was a huge stigma against drawing cartoons of any kind for a very long time
>Disney himself demanded all art be made of simple recognizable shapesmaybe initially due to budget or tech constraints but some of disney's animated movies are still marvels today. They were downright breathtaking works of art back then compared against their contemporaries. See: Snow White for example.
>Hannah Barbara et al also created "Famous Artist" books to train Joe blowsI don't think this proves the point you want it to prove. Hannah Barbara perfected the take what works and do 10 thousand nearly identical derivates of it. They might be one of the root causes of this modern: you don't need to learn fundies, just draw cartoons.
>"you don't know anything out of college"this has always been true in literally every industry because there a huge disconnect between what colleges teach and what the industry is doing that takes colleges a long time to catch up. I originally went to school for finance and when I got my first job on wallstreet I was told to toss everything I knew in the trash. Not because none of it was useful but because the college curriculum is a huge lumbering beast that takes forever to update and is different in every school. It's much easier for a company to tell you to toss what you know, assume you don't know shit, and teach you their way of doing things as if you were a fresh slate.
