Back then it really looked like animation (animated, from anima, soul). The movements flowed. Today they look like dead rigid figures, the animators are just abusing lights and shadows to give them a fake 3D effect just to compensate for their mediocre animation.
@@calypso To be fair, digital animation is good, it's always good to use new technologies being used and whatever. The problem is how poorly they implemented it on The Simpsons. Now they just look like dead objects with a voice over. I like the well defined lines and to some extent the new light and shadow work they put on them... but all of that doesn't work if the animation is so stiff, so rigid, so dead. It's like watching a puppet show where there is only one person moving each puppet, one at a time so only the one puppet speaking is moving but the rest remain inanimate until it's their turn to be used. Idk if this makes sense. Example: All characters are static while Lisa talks, then Lisa shuts up and now she's static, Homer/Bart/Whoever suddenly starts talking and everyone else is motionless... I mean, come on, even Rick and Morty, Adventure Time and so many other modern shows that use computer animation do a way better job!!
What made classical Simpsons so memorable for me was their tangential story lines. For example, Homer shopping in a grocery store ends up him traveling to Africa.
@@_reverse-psycho_855 The Africa Episode gets a lot of hate from people but I personally actually like it, it's one of the few episodes where I never really understood the intense hate for it, its like calm down, it's not that bad, is it one of the best?- no, but it's not one of the worst either, it had its good moments and lines, I think it gets more hate than it deserves to get.
It's weird to think that Ronald Reagan was the oldest President and Joe Biden was in the Senate when The Simpsons started and now Joe Biden is the oldest President over 30 years later with the series still going on.
The simpsons is my favorite show ever, no matter how "mediocre" it is now, the show overall is fantastic I still like the show tbh but most people don't
The funny thing is compared to everything else currently on air simpsons is far from mediocre. It was the best thing on tv then and its the best thing now. Hold modern episodes up to the earlier ones of course it won't be as good, but Tv in general has declined not just the simpsons.
Wow! I’m glad someone agrees with me. Although I do think that there are pros and cons to the new and old episodes, i still think the show realy holds up. And you gotta hand it to them, after 30 years of episodes of course its gonna be mediocre at times, but i still think its truly great.
The 2nd to 7th season of the Simpsons was the best sitcom/ television show of all time … it is a pity the storylines and humour radically changed declined after this…
@@haliaeetus8221 Pretty much. Simpsons always have team of writers (around 12-15 people) who works on the show at the same time. Like half of that writers left show (amd were replaced by new unfortunately less talented writers) in 7 season, when storyline became less grounded, more absurd and ratings slowly beggin to drop, by the season 9 only 3 of classic writers remain
It's interesting seeing how they started creating character sheets only later on, after a few shorts. That is something that changed for the better nowadays. However, the fluidity, the principle of Exaggeration, and so much more... were completely abandoned for the sake of speeding up production and adapt to HD. A true shame. In this fast paced market, I find it ironic how HD basically forced companies to think "wait a moment, we should take the time to do this", but unfortunately at the expense of basic principles of animations. I wish we would all slow down production and focus on quality, but our life style seems to be antithetical to this crazy idea. Still, The Simpsohs remains in my heart, especially the early seasons.
If only... I remember this interview with an animator of the cartoon network show "Steven Universe", in which they said "If you can recognize the character, it's on model"... Characters on that show are incredibly inconsistent, not just from chapter to chapter, but from shot to shot! They never really made model sheets, and the ones they made used already existing assets... And THEN other shows came and managed to go even lower than that already very low standard (Thundercats ROAR, for instance). 2D animation is pretty much dead. Disney no longer makes 2D animated movies, for instance, and it's a shame, because the medium still has a lot to give. With the rampant nostalgia baiting, studios should bring back 2D animation instead of a recycled IP from the 80s. It's not like they don't have the money or can't find artists anywhere, or worse, that people somehow no longer want 2D animated movies and tv shows!
@@DonVigaDeFierro Hopefully Studio Ghibli doesn't go in the 3d direction, as well. Their 2d animated films are some of the best movies I've ever seen, but Earwig and the Witch seems mediocre at best. The animation is good for a first attempt, but I would much rather prefer something more on brand
@@dustyrat3067 Ah, yes. The Japanese animation industry is in a weird position, because they still make largely 2D shows, but add 3D to the complicated backgrounds, characters, effects, etc. 3D has its own qualities and it's cheaper to produce than 2D animation, so I'm not surprised that they're using it more liberally. It has its place and it can do amazing things (as Pixar/Dreamworks have shown us), and I'm really all for its adoption as long as the animation is good. Same for 2D... I prefer a good 3D animation over a mediocre 2D animation any day! But 2D animation has its own uniqueness to it, and I would like to see 3D animation doing the job of making 2D animation easier, rather than replacing it completely...
there's something incredibly inspiring about all the struggles the simpsons team had to go through over the years. They never waited to have a perfect recipe, they just went along, doing their best and adapting and still managed to be successful all the way.
1987-2009 had the best animation for me. Especially earlier on, I loved the more energetic, fluid and messy look. The coloring also looked a bit deeper back then.
"To make things more demanding the Simpsons were going for a hand drawn look, so the artists used traditional ink and paint cell animation" Or Translated: "to make things exactly as challenging as all animation was at the time the Simpsons were going for the only kind of look that one could do at the time, so the artists settled for literally the only way that every single cartoon was created at the time"
Not quite - there was also a technique where you photocopied pencil lines into the cel instead of hand-painted black outlines. A ton of shows (and even some Disney films) used that from the 60s and onward until the death of cels, precisely because it saved a lot of labour versus this older method of outlining. But it also gave sketchy, rough outlines, rather than the clean smooth outlines that The Simpsons went for. TLDR: the special thing wasn’t their use of cels, but that they didn’t cheap-out on the outlines.
The animation for the Modern Simpsons, while clean and clear, loses the charm the early seasons had, specifically with the animation feeling robotic at times
insane that this show's almost as old as me. like I would have never believed a show I grew up with, saw the shorts then premier ep would STILL be going.
Me too. It's surprising that the 80s show lived longer than that. I'm pretty sure people wanted to cancel the show for being so bad, but I think it deserves a proper ending, like The Simpsons Movie which it's the true ending for me.
IKR. I was either younger or same age as Lisa when I first started watching and now I think I’m the same age as Homer and Marge (I don’t remember how old they’re are supposed to be, I’m guessing mid thirties)
Not gonna lie I think I just gained more respect for the employees from beginning to what we got now for what they do do I always kinda thought it was something throw together for money I owe my animation class teacher a apology
At the end there when homer is waving goodbye to his mom then afterwards just sits there for hours.. after leaving my family for me it hit so hard. Just like I do He could be thinking about all good an bad things from childhood and then life now as an adult but words at best probably shouldnt be spoken
@@kingsavagebruh147 I'm so sorry buddy, but at least you can hear huh? The birds chirping, the leaves rustling, your parents calling you downstairs for pie. Don't be sad, enjoy the things you have :)
Nobody ever took Fox as a serious network until The Simpsons. At the time, The Cosby Show on NBC was the undisputed king of prime time but this little cartoon show from a struggling network dethroned it.
It kinda baffles me that money was an issue to scale up to HD in 2009. Like you would think, after been on the air for 20 years being one of the biggest cartoons money wouldnt be a problem. We're talking about The Simpsons, which is sold to literally every country in the world.. Dunno, seems weird to me.
I thought it was weird too... I guess each episode cost a lot of money to make and they prob only make a fraction of what they made decades ago from the show
1:42 Considering the show first aired in 1987, an era when digital ink and paint was still VERY experimental (Disney didn't fully adopt it until 1990) I'd say the use of cel animation was less of a conscious style decision, and more of a "this is pretty much the only option we have" situation.
The Simpson’s has to be the greatest animated show of all time. I’m currently on season 29 on Disney plus. I could rewatch every episode, and it’ll be like if it was my first time watching it like I was 8 again. It will always be my favorite animated show. I’m glad it’s still around. 👌🏼
Yes and I will only watch those episodes on an old CRT tv I have. Old episodes look super weird on disney plus, with the tops and bottoms of the images cropped out
I like seeing how the animation improved over the years. I wish same could be said for some of the writing. Many sharks have been jumped in the last 25 years.
0:20 The reason it looks like that is because after the episode the literally had no money for the intro idk why they tryna act like the HD revamp looks good Sure the rest of the intro looks fairly good but the grocery store scene looks soo horrible 😭😭😭
Ya know, even though the simpsons might have lost a lot of fluidity and that "human touch" feel to it in the later seasons, it is admirable how they reinvented themselves when dealing with camera movement, scene planning, attention to detail etc. I do think it was an improvement, unfortunately it came without the most substantial thing about the show like the storyline and jokes
This 14:32 video is entertainingly educational. The history of animation of The Simpsons was presented complete with interviews of the key people. This video is a nice piece of work.
They keep saying "there was no money"... That franchise makes a ridiculous amount of money every year from ads, games, toys and other merch. If the Simpsons didn't make mega bucks they wouldn't have continued to make it for the past 30+ years.
This is so crazy. I used to have a "how to draw the Simpsons" book from the nineties, that laid all this out in more detail. I remember entire pages dedicated to how many spikes to put in Bart ant Lisa's hair. So much mastalgia here!
I grew up on the Simpson’s! My older brother would watch it at 6 after the news and dinner and I’d sneak in to watch too from the age of 4 until now! 1990-2021 for me and of course I went back and watched the original episodes and shorts! Literally the best series on TV
That part at 4:42 when they rewind. Anyone notice how when the woman talking about the show said "Like they usually do" right at the same time the woman in the show was moving her mouth. It looked like they said the same exact thing 😂
I think a lot of people are lost by nostalgia. Sure a lot of people grew up with that hand drawn fluidity, that I can also say has a certain feel to it, but ultimately studios need to adapt, and the Simpsons did a great job of doing so. The animation looks great, and they still show creativity to this day both in animation and in story lines. I think it is ignorant to degrade your perception of a show based on "what it used to be", because in the end it is still great now!
Scripts aside, which is the thing that's currently failing in The Simpsons, it's nice to see that they're constantly improving and fixing their "look". I must say though, I digged the color pallete of the older episodes, with those jarring, extreme colors and kinda flat backgrounds with straight geometry and kinda empty spaces. It gave everything a slight uncanny feeling. Specially the night shots with used those deep purples and blues. It's an iconic look.
HD looks so much worse imo. It loses it's charm and the colours look more washed out for some reason. Everything looks less fluid and natural. Edit: You guys realise it's a cartoon about yellow people right? It's not meant to have rigid, realistic animation. Let it be wacky.
@@everythingcollectibles Are you kidding? The animation on Spongebob was always the best and it's better than ever. The animation is more fluid and they keep hearing over-the-top expressive poses.
I appreciate that the show is still going today as I grew up watching it, but the best seasons were when I was a kid. The shows all but dead now in terms of quality comedy and content. I haven’t watched the show in probably 10 years, but I’ll go back to the old classic episodes and watch those. God I miss watching those on TV with the family during dinner.
The Tracey Ullman Shorts and the early seasons (1-2) were my personal favorite animation design of Bart because I just really loved it better than modern ones today..to be honest
and of course, they started off as a working class family but these days would be considered upper middle (to use the common definitions of those terms)
@@Emily-fp8wp Just having a house at all would put them into upper middle class. Planet Money recently did an analysis, and found that their family wouldn't be able to exist nowadays(a dad with a working-class job supporting a family of 5, with a house and two cars).
@@laerin7931 I mean, Homer _still_ has an important position on a highly technical field (performance not taken into account for obvious reasons). His job must pay very well no matter if it's 1991 or 2021.
@@DonVigaDeFierro I believe the idea is that being paid very well(although in show, Homer's job was never described as particularly well-paying, even though nuclear power plant personell tend to have high salaries) isn't really enough to support a family of 5 and buy a house in 2021.
Also distancing: 'the feast of maximum occupancy' - but if something runs for long enough you will eventually find many coincidences since humans love to spot patterns in things.
It's funny because that "animation mistake"with the eyes bulging in seasons 5 and 6 especially, were one of the reasons I laughed the hardest during those episodes. The characters just looked hilarious in almost any pose. They didn't even have to do a gag to deliver any laughs. This was fascinating to watch!
Unbelievable, it is hard to believe that there was that much of hard work, art and geniuses behind The Simpsons. These people must have really proud of their selves for what they have been doing. I wish one day I also become a useful person like these people. My God, running this series like this is like running a whole world of yours. To be short I really admire this masterpiece, THANK YOU A LOT ❤️ ❤️ ❤️ ❤️
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I love how one of the biggest shows of all time has "no money" to do something essential, like a title sequence.
That's Fox for yah. LOL
It's not a priority
@@kingastaroth7912 you both are correct
@@tripi7906 not if I have anything to do with it
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The animation was the best in the 90s when it still looked “rough” but at the same time smooth and energetic
I agree
The change to digital was a detriment to the Simpsons, the show looks worse and lost a part of its soul
Exactly it’s just lazy now. This is what Arthur fell into and look how that worked out
Back then it really looked like animation (animated, from anima, soul). The movements flowed.
Today they look like dead rigid figures, the animators are just abusing lights and shadows to give them a fake 3D effect just to compensate for their mediocre animation.
@@calypso To be fair, digital animation is good, it's always good to use new technologies being used and whatever. The problem is how poorly they implemented it on The Simpsons. Now they just look like dead objects with a voice over. I like the well defined lines and to some extent the new light and shadow work they put on them... but all of that doesn't work if the animation is so stiff, so rigid, so dead. It's like watching a puppet show where there is only one person moving each puppet, one at a time so only the one puppet speaking is moving but the rest remain inanimate until it's their turn to be used. Idk if this makes sense. Example: All characters are static while Lisa talks, then Lisa shuts up and now she's static, Homer/Bart/Whoever suddenly starts talking and everyone else is motionless... I mean, come on, even Rick and Morty, Adventure Time and so many other modern shows that use computer animation do a way better job!!
What made classical Simpsons so memorable for me was their tangential story lines. For example, Homer shopping in a grocery store ends up him traveling to Africa.
I liked classic Simpson's for focusing on Bart a lot more.
That sounds a lot like Family Guy
The Africa episode was seriously underrated.
@@_reverse-psycho_855 The Africa Episode gets a lot of hate from people but I personally actually like it, it's one of the few episodes where I never really understood the intense hate for it, its like calm down, it's not that bad, is it one of the best?- no, but it's not one of the worst either, it had its good moments and lines, I think it gets more hate than it deserves to get.
They still do that.
Perfect example of “isn’t it funny how day by day nothing changes, but when you look back, everything is different”.
Your body adapts. That's why
Except day by day it changed rapidly, even frame by frame LOL
Y’know, for a 40 year old, Bart is looking pretty fresh.
But still pretty fat.
Nicolas Labranche I do, and I just hate the Simpsons
i was the same age as bart when this show came out now im in my 40s wondering why bart is still young
@@fwef7445 we already saw Bart die old I haven't watched in a while but I think he died when he pulled his final prank on skinner saying skinner sucks
@Nicolas Labranche no
No matter what happens, The Simpsons is always there for you
I wish the show would be canceled. The current Simpsons is a sham of what the show used to be.
@@_Painted yeah the storylines are repetitive and generic and some characters like Lisa have become really annoying
I reckon since Disney's bought them, they're gonna want to make their money's worth. They might not be gone for a while.
I think it would be better if they did shows as Lisa and Bart as adults
@@_Painted 1 x
i kinda prefer the older version, it’s a lot more energetic.
Same here.
Same. Everything from season 7/8 and under are by far the best.
00:02
Everyone does.
Eh, everybody's a critic.
It's weird to think that Ronald Reagan was the oldest President and Joe Biden was in the Senate when The Simpsons started and now Joe Biden is the oldest President over 30 years later with the series still going on.
No it really isn't.
It just means we need to stop voting in old people.
Fake puppet president
@@I_WANT_MY_SLAW Yes it is lmao
@@JohnWick-vh2qy opposed to a real puppet president?
The simpsons is my favorite show ever, no matter how "mediocre" it is now, the show overall is fantastic
I still like the show tbh but most people don't
The funny thing is compared to everything else currently on air simpsons is far from mediocre. It was the best thing on tv then and its the best thing now. Hold modern episodes up to the earlier ones of course it won't be as good, but Tv in general has declined not just the simpsons.
kinda thought I was the only one…
Love them to .
Wow! I’m glad someone agrees with me. Although I do think that there are pros and cons to the new and old episodes, i still think the show realy holds up. And you gotta hand it to them, after 30 years of episodes of course its gonna be mediocre at times, but i still think its truly great.
ive heard the new season is actually good
The 2nd to 7th season of the Simpsons was the best sitcom/ television show of all time … it is a pity the storylines and humour radically changed declined after this…
2-8 more like, season 9 was when the show became crap (minus the first episode).
like most shows in the 21st century they just became Democrat propaganda
Did the writers change much at that time or what/who could be the reason?
Yeah true
@@haliaeetus8221 Pretty much. Simpsons always have team of writers (around 12-15 people) who works on the show at the same time. Like half of that writers left show (amd were replaced by new unfortunately less talented writers) in 7 season, when storyline became less grounded, more absurd and ratings slowly beggin to drop, by the season 9 only 3 of classic writers remain
It's interesting seeing how they started creating character sheets only later on, after a few shorts. That is something that changed for the better nowadays. However, the fluidity, the principle of Exaggeration, and so much more... were completely abandoned for the sake of speeding up production and adapt to HD. A true shame. In this fast paced market, I find it ironic how HD basically forced companies to think "wait a moment, we should take the time to do this", but unfortunately at the expense of basic principles of animations. I wish we would all slow down production and focus on quality, but our life style seems to be antithetical to this crazy idea. Still, The Simpsohs remains in my heart, especially the early seasons.
Wow, well said
If only... I remember this interview with an animator of the cartoon network show "Steven Universe", in which they said "If you can recognize the character, it's on model"...
Characters on that show are incredibly inconsistent, not just from chapter to chapter, but from shot to shot! They never really made model sheets, and the ones they made used already existing assets...
And THEN other shows came and managed to go even lower than that already very low standard (Thundercats ROAR, for instance).
2D animation is pretty much dead. Disney no longer makes 2D animated movies, for instance, and it's a shame, because the medium still has a lot to give.
With the rampant nostalgia baiting, studios should bring back 2D animation instead of a recycled IP from the 80s. It's not like they don't have the money or can't find artists anywhere, or worse, that people somehow no longer want 2D animated movies and tv shows!
@@DonVigaDeFierro Hopefully Studio Ghibli doesn't go in the 3d direction, as well. Their 2d animated films are some of the best movies I've ever seen, but Earwig and the Witch seems mediocre at best. The animation is good for a first attempt, but I would much rather prefer something more on brand
@@dustyrat3067 Ah, yes. The Japanese animation industry is in a weird position, because they still make largely 2D shows, but add 3D to the complicated backgrounds, characters, effects, etc.
3D has its own qualities and it's cheaper to produce than 2D animation, so I'm not surprised that they're using it more liberally. It has its place and it can do amazing things (as Pixar/Dreamworks have shown us), and I'm really all for its adoption as long as the animation is good. Same for 2D... I prefer a good 3D animation over a mediocre 2D animation any day!
But 2D animation has its own uniqueness to it, and I would like to see 3D animation doing the job of making 2D animation easier, rather than replacing it completely...
Wow
i feel like the pre-hd seasons are the funniest, maybe bc the weird faces the caracters used to have like when homer vomits
no because the writers had more ideas, i mean you wouldn't have much idea left if you'd been doing a comedy since 1987
Until season 13 it had actually good writers. Then it got terrible. But no news, everyone know the writing team changed and it went downhill
the episodes from roughly 1991 - 1998 were the best. This is a fact generally agreed upon by all simpsons fans
@@lander77477 ok
Why is this an unpopular opinion????
The Simpsons is by far the greatest show ever to be grown up with.
No it isn't. The show hasn't been good in 20 years.
Family guy baby 🔥
@@etparadise7277 that's second on my list only cause I grew up with Simpsons from a small child. Family guy started for me in my teens.
It is for adults not kids
@@I_WANT_MY_SLAW - well most of us have already grown up, lol
there's something incredibly inspiring about all the struggles the simpsons team had to go through over the years. They never waited to have a perfect recipe, they just went along, doing their best and adapting and still managed to be successful all the way.
1987-2009 had the best animation for me.
Especially earlier on, I loved the more energetic, fluid and messy look.
The coloring also looked a bit deeper back then.
The Simpsons is the greatest cartoon ever. I grew up on this show on a daily basis and I still watch it religiously 20 years later!
it’s bad to me
@@slumberpartybard6355 your weird
@The Film Makers 2004 yuh
@The Film Makers 2004 quite the gay person he is
You STILL watch The Simpsons? You must be an extreme masochist because it's freakin terrible now.
Friendly reminder that “sleep” is quite important!
Me at 2am.. Ik
@@kxiszo it's 2 am for me now, one hour difference
Hmm 4:32 am I think imma go sleep.
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Thanks bro, you too
"To make things more demanding the Simpsons were going for a hand drawn look, so the artists used traditional ink and paint cell animation"
Or Translated:
"to make things exactly as challenging as all animation was at the time the Simpsons were going for the only kind of look that one could do at the time, so the artists settled for literally the only way that every single cartoon was created at the time"
Produced in a way that was shabby and low quality, carried by solid writing which to this date is severely lacking in Western animation.
Technically the computer was available if you bought one but it probably be harder than traditional animation at 1989
Not quite - there was also a technique where you photocopied pencil lines into the cel instead of hand-painted black outlines. A ton of shows (and even some Disney films) used that from the 60s and onward until the death of cels, precisely because it saved a lot of labour versus this older method of outlining. But it also gave sketchy, rough outlines, rather than the clean smooth outlines that The Simpsons went for.
TLDR: the special thing wasn’t their use of cels, but that they didn’t cheap-out on the outlines.
The animation for the Modern Simpsons, while clean and clear, loses the charm the early seasons had, specifically with the animation feeling robotic at times
insane that this show's almost as old as me. like I would have never believed a show I grew up with, saw the shorts then premier ep would STILL be going.
Yeah but its not good. Just because it still going, doesn't mean it should.
@@I_WANT_MY_SLAW haha, I don't necessarily disagree. It's just amazing to see, probably once in a life time kinda thing
Me too. It's surprising that the 80s show lived longer than that.
I'm pretty sure people wanted to cancel the show for being so bad, but I think it deserves a proper ending, like The Simpsons Movie which it's the true ending for me.
IKR. I was either younger or same age as Lisa when I first started watching and now I think I’m the same age as Homer and Marge (I don’t remember how old they’re are supposed to be, I’m guessing mid thirties)
@@I_WANT_MY_SLAW Well, South Park would like to say the word with you. It got from the seasonal rot now.
Not gonna lie I think I just gained more respect for the employees from beginning to what we got now for what they do do I always kinda thought it was something throw together for money I owe my animation class teacher a apology
I still like the show but the old ones were better script wise in my opinion they focused more on Bart and I liked that.
I think your English teacher would like one too.
@@trentonklein5725 only for season 1 and 2
The show has been terrible for a good many years
At the end there when homer is waving goodbye to his mom then afterwards just sits there for hours.. after leaving my family for me it hit so hard. Just like I do He could be thinking about all good an bad things from childhood and then life now as an adult but words at best probably shouldnt be spoken
Too bad the writing quality didn't improve with the animation.
To bad you are blind
@@kingsavagebruh147 I'm so sorry buddy, but at least you can hear huh? The birds chirping, the leaves rustling, your parents calling you downstairs for pie. Don't be sad, enjoy the things you have :)
@@dorkle9085 what if there deaf...? And there orphans...
How can someone become better then perfect
@@dorkle9085 "your parents calling you downstairs for pie" 😂
The technology didn't "refine the animation process" it made it cheaper and cheaper for FOX to produce, cheapening the soul of the show in the process
Nobody ever took Fox as a serious network until The Simpsons. At the time, The Cosby Show on NBC was the undisputed king of prime time but this little cartoon show from a struggling network dethroned it.
Where's Bill Cosby now?
@@RetroJack a free man
@@uwu- With a totally ruined reputation.
@@RetroJack true, but I'm sure the man's got enough money to laugh it off
@@uwu- I wonder what his lawyers and victim comp cost.
The original are legitimately terrifying.
its terrifying how long this show has been going for. Put it out of its misery already.
I like the original, its meaningful
@@purefoldnz3070 nah
@@Maximus20778 super nah
Those shorts are cursed
It kinda baffles me that money was an issue to scale up to HD in 2009.
Like you would think, after been on the air for 20 years being one of the biggest cartoons money wouldnt be a problem.
We're talking about The Simpsons, which is sold to literally every country in the world.. Dunno, seems weird to me.
It's probably their adherence to budgets that has enabled them to last 30 years.
I thought it was weird too... I guess each episode cost a lot of money to make and they prob only make a fraction of what they made decades ago from the show
Maybe the HD are expensive bc they need to redraw all thing and object
the people with the most money are always the stingiest with it
1:42 Considering the show first aired in 1987, an era when digital ink and paint was still VERY experimental (Disney didn't fully adopt it until 1990) I'd say the use of cel animation was less of a conscious style decision, and more of a "this is pretty much the only option we have" situation.
Im 28 years old im still watching this secretly because other people just dont understand that watching cartoons as an adult is normal
Wow such a lovely and comprehensive coverage of the Simpson’s animation evolution. I love it and I love the show!
The only reason the Simpsons is still on is because its still a cash cow overseas. They don't care about impressing anyone in the U.S. anymore.
I miss when there was low quality and good animation.
i watched a video about that a few weeks ago
This is a really in-depth and well rounded video. I enjoyed it!
The Simpson’s has to be the greatest animated show of all time. I’m currently on season 29 on Disney plus. I could rewatch every episode, and it’ll be like if it was my first time watching it like I was 8 again. It will always be my favorite animated show. I’m glad it’s still around. 👌🏼
:)
Finally, someone who actually watches the new seasons instead of taking one look and shoving it in the corner
7:06 this was my favourite style.
True. And why does sangwoo look different on your pfp?👁👄👁
@@olracroma1670 who tf is sangwoo
@@bossshrek1241 he's from killing stalking. It's manhwa.💅
@@olracroma1670 I hate anime
@@bossshrek1241 good for you
0:16 Maggie costs $486.52 now compared to $847.63 in the past!
Thats a nice detail inflation
When he said confused bird look that's exactly how I always felt it was
It seems like it gets worse every year despite how long it’s been
90's Simpsons (seasons 1-10) will always be the best! 📿🍩🛹🎷👶
So much so, the show ended for me after season 10.
Season 1-8 is perfection after that it's a hollow shell of itself
Agreed
I go to season 9 then its well and truly over
Yes and I will only watch those episodes on an old CRT tv I have. Old episodes look super weird on disney plus, with the tops and bottoms of the images cropped out
I like seeing how the animation improved over the years. I wish same could be said for some of the writing. Many sharks have been jumped in the last 25 years.
Not the animation the visuals
Very interesting that they weren't given any (or very little) budget to redo the title sequence.
0:06 with all due respect that is the second title sequence to the Simpsons
Then she showed the 3rd intro
@@gachaakiememes3255 that's the 4th or 5th counting music changes
It's amazing that this is still going!
Can't believe I was eight when this show first premiered.
This was fantastic to watch. As a student and practitioner of traditional animation I loved seeing these behind the scenes aspects.
Truly, an insider's video. So many technical insides. Love it
I know it's silly, but I love watching this show over and over again because it has such nostalgia attached
Why and how exactly is that even close to being silly?
Same
Is it just or anybody just touched this videos notification redirected to a video about friends.
0:20
The reason it looks like that is because after the episode the literally had no money for the intro idk why they tryna act like the HD revamp looks good
Sure the rest of the intro looks fairly good but the grocery store scene looks soo horrible 😭😭😭
It's kind of weird that the real life cast have slowly morphed into their Ullman era character animation.
that outro was beautiful
Holy crap what an incredible video
I'm 31 years old and still watch the show everyday. I grew up with them!
Simpsons: we made over 706 episodes, what show has more episodes than us?
One piece: Allow me to introduce myself
Ya know, even though the simpsons might have lost a lot of fluidity and that "human touch" feel to it in the later seasons, it is admirable how they reinvented themselves when dealing with camera movement, scene planning, attention to detail etc. I do think it was an improvement, unfortunately it came without the most substantial thing about the show like the storyline and jokes
Can't wait for Season 100
Yup
@@Zramy no it’s not. It’s still as popular as it was
You'd better get accidentally trapped in a cryo-chamber, then you won't have to wait.
Simpsons is the only “adult show” that almost every kid has watched
No matter how bad it is, I still love it
This 14:32 video is entertainingly educational. The history of animation of The Simpsons was presented complete with interviews of the key people. This video is a nice piece of work.
Season 7 was sooo good, especially the Halloween special! Definitely my favourite ep.
Nice video btw, learnt a lot I didn't know about the Simpsons.
0:02 me donating to my favorite streamer
Old school Simpson's was the best. Characters felt like they had souls.. now days feel like you looking at soulless A.I.
And it was funnier back then
I think it’s funnier now
@@agentchubbbbb4285 I think I hear an angry mob forming somewhere in the distance...
Cringe
@@sleevman k
@@agentchubbbbb4285 well good for you, you're wrong though.
A very nice case study of my favourite show of all time. Good Job team Insider!
insider has its own channels for its own content, i like how organized that is
I love the background music. I want a library of all if it
They keep saying "there was no money"... That franchise makes a ridiculous amount of money every year from ads, games, toys and other merch. If the Simpsons didn't make mega bucks they wouldn't have continued to make it for the past 30+ years.
I wouldn’t be surprised if very little of that money went to the actual animation team though. Cutting corners maximizes profits
Fox wouldn't give them money. Most of the money goes to Fox. Take it up with the higher ups.
This is so crazy. I used to have a "how to draw the Simpsons" book from the nineties, that laid all this out in more detail. I remember entire pages dedicated to how many spikes to put in Bart ant Lisa's hair. So much mastalgia here!
Mastalgia haha?
I grew up on the Simpson’s! My older brother would watch it at 6 after the news and dinner and I’d sneak in to watch too from the age of 4 until now! 1990-2021 for me and of course I went back and watched the original episodes and shorts! Literally the best series on TV
That part at 4:42 when they rewind. Anyone notice how when the woman talking about the show said "Like they usually do" right at the same time the woman in the show was moving her mouth. It looked like they said the same exact thing 😂
I think a lot of people are lost by nostalgia. Sure a lot of people grew up with that hand drawn fluidity, that I can also say has a certain feel to it, but ultimately studios need to adapt, and the Simpsons did a great job of doing so. The animation looks great, and they still show creativity to this day both in animation and in story lines. I think it is ignorant to degrade your perception of a show based on "what it used to be", because in the end it is still great now!
Never really had a issue with the hd animation
It looked better before and the jokes aren’t as good
The first season has some beautiful animation!
I like the 90’s and early 00’s Simpsons, nostalgia. I also like the super modern episodes with extra movements and shadows.
Scripts aside, which is the thing that's currently failing in The Simpsons, it's nice to see that they're constantly improving and fixing their "look". I must say though, I digged the color pallete of the older episodes, with those jarring, extreme colors and kinda flat backgrounds with straight geometry and kinda empty spaces. It gave everything a slight uncanny feeling. Specially the night shots with used those deep purples and blues. It's an iconic look.
Yeah the colour theory in the early seasons was really strong. Heightened, yes, but very strong.
I like how I can roughly tell how old the episode is based on the style and quality of the writing!
Oh and the animation too
Congratulations on releasing this video, it's top-notch for sure
HD looks so much worse imo. It loses it's charm and the colours look more washed out for some reason. Everything looks less fluid and natural.
Edit: You guys realise it's a cartoon about yellow people right? It's not meant to have rigid, realistic animation. Let it be wacky.
Although modern Simpsons has some of the best animation on TV at the moment.
@@williamruiz5965 That and Spongebob.
Charm doesn't exist. It's all in your head. Can you go to the store and buy charm. That's nostalgia talking. Also it got more fluid if anything.
You could say the Same for SpongeBob (Season 1) Vs all the rest (2-13).
@@everythingcollectibles Are you kidding? The animation on Spongebob was always the best and it's better than ever. The animation is more fluid and they keep hearing over-the-top expressive poses.
I appreciate that the show is still going today as I grew up watching it, but the best seasons were when I was a kid. The shows all but dead now in terms of quality comedy and content.
I haven’t watched the show in probably 10 years, but I’ll go back to the old classic episodes and watch those. God I miss watching those on TV with the family during dinner.
It kills me when people say how bad simpsons is now but admit to not having watched in years ...makes 0 sense
THEY PUT IN SO MUCH HARD WORK TO BRING US THIS ART, I LOVE THE TEAM UP THERE, THANK YOU FOR AT LEAST 20 YEARS OF AWESOME MEMORIES
The Tracey Ullman Shorts and the early seasons (1-2) were my personal favorite animation design of Bart because I just really loved it better than modern ones today..to be honest
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you could not have said that any more amazing
looks great, wish they could invest time into some *good story lines*
The oldies are still the goodies in my opinion! ❤️😊
impressed by the cast and crew as always
Before HD the story writing was much better, but I don't see many people talking about how the animation was SO much smoother
This is actually a topic I've been curious about for ages! Thanks for the interesting upload Insiders :D
and of course, they started off as a working class family but these days would be considered upper middle (to use the common definitions of those terms)
I don't think they would? They have a pretty small house and car etc.
@@Emily-fp8wp what are you talking about? their house is huge
@@Emily-fp8wp Just having a house at all would put them into upper middle class. Planet Money recently did an analysis, and found that their family wouldn't be able to exist nowadays(a dad with a working-class job supporting a family of 5, with a house and two cars).
@@laerin7931 I mean, Homer _still_ has an important position on a highly technical field (performance not taken into account for obvious reasons). His job must pay very well no matter if it's 1991 or 2021.
@@DonVigaDeFierro I believe the idea is that being paid very well(although in show, Homer's job was never described as particularly well-paying, even though nuclear power plant personell tend to have high salaries) isn't really enough to support a family of 5 and buy a house in 2021.
Can't wait for season 33
Anyone know the name to that amazing outro song?
HAVE YOU FOUND IT YET?
4:43 perfect timing
After 32 years, it’s understandable that ideas are hard to come. I still enjoy watching the tv show.
4:41 that was satisfying
2:03 The Simpsons predicted face shields
Also distancing: 'the feast of maximum occupancy' - but if something runs for long enough you will eventually find many coincidences since humans love to spot patterns in things.
It's funny because that "animation mistake"with the eyes bulging in seasons 5 and 6 especially, were one of the reasons I laughed the hardest during those episodes. The characters just looked hilarious in almost any pose. They didn't even have to do a gag to deliver any laughs.
This was fascinating to watch!
David Silverman & Al Jean have a lot to answer for
Unbelievable, it is hard to believe that there was that much of hard work, art and geniuses behind The Simpsons. These people must have really proud of their selves for what they have been doing. I wish one day I also become a useful person like these people. My God, running this series like this is like running a whole world of yours. To be short I really admire this masterpiece, THANK YOU A LOT ❤️ ❤️ ❤️ ❤️
Late 90-Early 2000s Simpsons were the best. No one can change my mind
No one's trying to, we all agree with you, buddy.
That's not the original title sequence. They didn't start using that one until season 2.
Growing up we use to eat dinner as a family and watch The Simpsons together ❤️😩
I LOVE the way the original version of the characters looked. 😍
Hey anyone know where i can find the full versions of those interviews with David Silverman and Al Jean please?