![]() ![]() ![]() This included well-received hits like The Real Ghostbusters, but also forgotten and/or derided fare like The Fonz and the Happy Days Gang ( IN SPACE!), Rambo: The Force of Freedom, Dragon's Lair, and ALF. Less enduring but more common in 80s TV cartoons was the tendency to give live-action franchises Animated Adaptations. That said, these colorful and often action-packed shows were nevertheless a major change of pace from the dull offerings of The Dark Age of Animation and were entertaining to their target demographics, which is demonstrated by the fact that several of them became major pop culture phenomena that are fondly remembered to this day. Joe, My Little Pony, Jem, and ThunderCats ruled 80s television animation and had parents' groups up in arms about children watching glorified toy commercials, which were also strictly separated into shows for boys and shows for girls. Limited Animation was still the rule on television note (on both American and Japanese airwaves) Merchandise-Driven shows like He-Man, Strawberry Shortcake, Care Bears, The Transformers, G.I. The Renaissance age is usually considered to begin in the 80s, but it must be noted that for much of that decade, Western animation was still strangled by the Ghetto, plagued by a lack of artistic vision and pathetic budgets. ![]() Encompassing the late 1980s and the 1990s, the Renaissance Age of Animation had the medium see a significant increase in technical quality and finally returned to a point of artistic respect it had not seen since the Golden Age. What the New Hollywood era did for movies, the Renaissance Age did for animation. Animator and instructor Walt Stanchfield, in a memo to Disney animators circa 1995 ![]()
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