CGI/Traditional animation

I love CGI animation... I also love traditional animation too.

But let's face it, Studios have to make a profit, and they just can't bank on traditional animation.
I hope I can say this without being misunderstood, but I look at CGI animation/traditional animation like the light and dark sides of the Force.
Where CGI is the darkside because it is "quicker, easier".
Of course traditional animation can look bad much easier than CGI (consult the many works of Hanna-Barberra for this)

With deadlines for production in existence, CGI is more practical, and great films, shows, and shorts can and are made.
I love watching traditional animated TV shows, but it just really saddens me to see traditional animated films go extinct.
NO ONE will produce an artsy traditional animation feature.
At film festivals around the world there's always the buzz around some great independent film that's a must see.
How often is this an animated film?
Animated films, CGI or traditional are far more difficult to make than going out and shooting a small production, and if an animated film is done, it's done in CGI.
Again, because it is "quicker, easier" and practical.

There are several CGI  TV shows that are done in a 2D style, which I love, because the directors know what to do with it.
But sometimes this is not the case.

The Transformers Beast Wars/Machines CGI, I thought was done much better than what was done in the  Energon, and Cybertron.
NOT because of the different art styles, but because of the animation itself.
The Transformers Beast Wars/Machines shows took some liberties with what the charter's looked like compared with the toys of the characters.
Those design liberties taken added with small subtle whimsical movements, gave the characters ....more character.
The  Transformers Energon, and Cybertron character designs were exact scans of the toy line that were then animated very blandly.....they were boring to watch and look at.
I actually enjoyed watching the human character's antics over the Transformers,
(The human character designs in these 2 shows were visually better than the drab looking humans of the original  series).
I love GONZO's other shows, but these 2 were just lazy.
One small example, in TBW/TBM, if a charcter was not the focus of a scene, and was in the background somewhere...they would be doing something, or at least seem a little restless.
Where as the same scenario in TE and TC, a background character was just standing there like a still frame cel shot ala'TOS.
(In this regard, these modern shows were actually more like the original badly animated Transformer TV show).
I enjoy the current Transformers Animated show, but I would love to see  a Transformers show where the robot action was fast and furious and just plain cool to look at.
Recent anime shows like Eureka7, and Code Geoss which mix CGI/traditional animation much bettr than TE, or TC .
Even an old show like Mighty Orbots had great (better) robot action.

Again, I love CGI, but...

Let's look at Final Fantasy The Sprits Within/Advent Children, The Incredibles, Beowulf, and the upcoming Star Wars Clone Wars.
I've always preferred the cartoony look of FF characters better than the modern look that's more photo realistic that was used in TSW.
I feel any FANSTASY character should not look totally realistic.
Even though Advent Children movie's character designs leaned more towards the photo realistic look than I would have liked, it still split he difference between the photo realistic and cartoony styles.
The characters can be just as believable if not more so when they're cartoony as in The Incredibles
In animation, MOVING realistic and LOOKING realistic are 2 different and separate things.
Apparently this was never part of the producer's plan for the flick-O-pain Beowulf.
They seemed to be counting on the 3D gimmick, so you know the movie was weak to begin with.
No amount of 3D would make this movie better.
Star Wars Clone Wars, (can't wait for this one) is a good example.
In a live action movie filled with live action actors, it makes sense for a digital stunt double, or character to look as photo realistic as possible.
(This also applies to the Superman, Batman, Spiderman, the Hulk, and Ironman movies too).
The SWCW cartoony artstyle characters designs against the (more or less) realistic look of the backgrounds fits really well.
Complete photo realism in an entirely CGI movie is only sometimes great.
Even changing the character designs of the flick-O-pain Beowulf would not have made me like it, but making The Incredibles look more like Beowulf would have really made me dislike that film.
God bless Brad Bird.

Again I love CGI animation... I also love traditional animation too.
These are only some of my feelings on CGI/Traditional animation.
I think It can be done both ways depending on what the feature would be produced.

ZING!
I've  digressed into a rave.
If you read all the way to the end thanx.