If you try and tell if animation is good or not by looking at screencaps rather than just watching clips, I'm not sure how to address your question without pointing out how bad a method for assessing animation that is. Animation doesn't prioritise looking good in individual frames, it prioritises how things flow and how they work in motion. To discover whether you think animation is enjoyable/pleasing for you to look at or of a high quality (two things that are very different I'll note) then you should watch it in motion.
What you're actually saying in the above quote is that the screenshot you posted doesn't have high contrast shading like the counterexample you posted and his design elements have shifted a little with the new style. Neither of those things are grounds for calling the art (much less the animation) bad to me.
So to recap; conceding that you used the term animation in error, you asked "Did the art get worse?"
I responded with "No, it's good and is arguably better than it's been previously," and gave you a bunch of examples of it being good, a thing that seems blindingly obvious to me because I am familiar with the animation /in motion/
I apologise if you feel got at but your question seemed quite ridiculous and, to me, built on a bad foundation.
To be clear, something being of good quality is not grounds for it being mandatory to like it.
The art style for Sun and Moon is distinctly different from previous iterations of Pokemon as a show and I can quite understand not liking that shift but that is not the same thing as it being objectively bad.
Thank you! I'm not an animator myself. It's perfectly plausible and even likely that what I voice is going to sound ridiculous to an artist just as some of the ways I talk about cars would sound ridiculous to a mechanic or engineer.
I suspect a lot of what people call "bad" would to you be simply a different art style. And not liking the art style would be no basis for saying it's bad. If so, that perspective would seem to me to emphasize the expressive nature of art, and taking its logic further it would be impossible for art to be bad so long as the result was what the artist was going for.
From what I can see having watched a bit of the clips, saying the art is bad is also wrong. Ash himself looks bad to me. The other characters look simply designed but perfectly fine. But Ash looks 2-dimensional to me.
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I'm heading to bed but just wanted to address this point in brief. This isn't aimed at you specifically Falcon, it's a broader point.
It's almost like "good" and "bad" are inherently limiting and super binary terms that aren't actually that useful in the serious discussion of art.
I have to agree.
Ash and Pikachu both look...odd. The animation style is fine, but the art put into those two seems weird.
Might just be me being used to the older style of course. But it’s just those two that seem off to me.
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