What is this spotlit void room
To paraphrase an enlightening post from an unenlightened place, many older cartoons were drawn or directed by people with real experiences to share. Their goal was to give their memories new texture upon a screen. Adventures and heartbreak and love and motion and landscapes pulled from within themselves. Because of the sheer amount of accrued media, some modern cartoons come not from experiences but from producing animations in the style of modern animations.
Like AI collapse, if you feed cartoons to cartoonists indefinitely, you end up with animation that looks like a cartoon rather than a cartoon that looks like something. It’s funny to notice purely imaginary visual tropes becoming standard
Although, to be fair, I have never seen a wolf wear a tuxedo and do any of this:
Who are you to deny the lived experience of a posh, horny wolf
Tex Avery, Patron Saint of Posh Horny Wolves
It’s a cartoon so fantastical elements are always going to appear. I’ve never witnessed a cat plotting how to distract a mouse’s big, tough country cousin just long enough to eat him, either
Though to be fair, I wouldn’t put it past some humans.
