What constitutes as bad animation to you?

[a???z???D????y (:]

Yeah, and the interaction between the live-action actors and the backgrounds is equally crappy.

[Jawohl]

Watching that Hammerman clip, I thought of another one: Wonky designs. Now that in and of itself doesn't automatically equal bad animation, but in my experience I've found that the two often go hand in hand. It's rare that you'll have wonky designs but beautiful animation.

[omins_]

Phew, that thing was worse than any Filmation cartoon I've seen.

[Helena Isabella]

That MC Hammer cartoon was pretty bad, but I've seen even worse- Dingo Pictures.

http://www.dingo-pictures.de/en/wabuu-en.htm

Seriously...:sweat:

[Physics101]

Specific example?

This. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q6WGp...&feature=feedf

More generally, attempts to skip animation, undetailed designs, general lack of movement, off-color modelling, and most importantly, a lack of consistency.

[Me..!]

I don't agree with the undetailed designs, but will definitely agree about the rest.

I mean, it makes Dingo Pictures look good.

[sn_laughs]

Stiff characters, wonky movements, lack of movement, consistent animation errors, etc. Actually, it's kind of hard to think of what constitutes as "bad animation". It's kind of just something that I know it when I see it.

Though I do want to say that just because a show has bad animation doesn't mean the cartoon itself is bad. This is usually the case, but then you have cartoons like Rocky & Bullwinkle, whose animation might as well be still images, but it's one of the greatest cartoons of all-time.

[Zarkuna]

The only way I can describe my definition of "bad animation" is "worse than Hanna-Barbera."

[All hat]

The 1967-70 Spider-man cartoon was known to reuse lots of the same footage as well as reusing some plotline during the psychedelic seasons 2 and 3 supervised by Ralph Bakshi. For example "Swing City" plotline and footage was recycled into "Up from Nowhere" and "Specialist and Slaves" who also re-used parts from "To cage a Spider". And the ice on the cake was reusing footage from the cartoon Rocket Robin Hood episode "Dementia Five" to recyle it in "Revolt in the Fifth Dimension".

[MATTY!]

Bad animation tends to be the result of the resources and technology available to any given production.