The thing I hate about cartoons.

[Soviet Heavy]

-NOTE-
This does not mean that I hate cartoons. I quite like them. This rant only refers to a specific sequence that is quite common in most cartoons today.


I'm not here to ***** about how cartoons suck today, or how anime isn't really my thing. I am going to ***** about one thing that bugs me in a ton of cartoons.

Spoiler

No, not the character, not the giant hadouken laser. The goddamn background.

I cannot stand it whenever this is used! Whenever a character is about to pull off some badass move, the scene becomes distorted, and it looks like the character has started to travel through fucking hyperspace. The lines and the neon colours drive me nuts!

I understand that this is mean to represent the power of the hit, or the shot, or whatever the hell the guy is doing, but it pisses me off that otherwise cool looking background images are replaced with an inter-dimensional wormhole.

 

[delet]

It's a trick used every now and again in certain animes, not all though. It's just easier to animate methinks.

 

[SnootyEnglishman]

It's defying any and all things related to Science.

 

[Sleekgiant]

Ummm yeah take a chill pill dude, its just a background

 

[MortisLegio]

it to emphasize speed and power to the character's attack/move

yes it gets annoying when overused but it works in small doses

 

[Armored Prayer]

I think its just a lazy way of showing the character moving without actually making him move.

It was constant in the Pokemon anime.

 

[Soviet Heavy]

I think its just a lazy way of showing the character moving without actually making him move.

It was constant in the Pokemon anime.

Yeah, pretty much this. I guess I do seem a little hostile in my OP, but it just strikes me as lazy, and completely pointless.

 

[sheic99]

If you hate that, DO NOT read The Dark Knight Strikes back. Frank miller hardly did backgrounds in that. I have to agree with you, it is extremely lazy thing for artists and animators to do. It also makes scenes that much easier to recycle because of the lack of background.

 

[Gigaguy64]

It's a trick used every now and again in certain animes, not all though. It's just easier to animate methinks.

Agreed.

OT:to me it adds to the atmosphere of the move.
And sometimes the Background it distorted to show the flow of whats happening on the page or scene.

Look at that picture.

Ryu is gathering energy in his hands and is about to release it foreword.
In the background the lines are showing the flow of the movement and they also focus your attention on Ryu and his Hadoken.

When overused its annoying but it has its place.

And id take an Epic Battle in an Dimensional Distortion over a flowery field of trees any day.