The trouble with animation today is that we’ve forgotten the basics. E — Animation

"After graduation, Tezuka became a full-time cartoonist and hit the big time with Astro Boy, about a robot boy who is rescued by a sympathetic doctor. In 1963, Astro Boy became the first homegrown animated cartoon to air in Japan, giving birth to the billion-dollar anime industry. Tezuka had created one of Japan’s most enduring post–World War II cultural exports. But in the late 1960s people started to complain that cartoons were rotting kids’ brains and teachers began enforcing a “no comics” rule in the classroom. Tezuka’s cutesy animated television shows, so novel in the 1950s, became laughable during the 1960s. Tezuka responded by creating some of the most outrageously racy, controversial, morbid adult-oriented comics, ever."

"The 1970s and 1980s saw the heyday of Soviet animation. Wonderful cartoons were produced, which were of the highest quality, and many won international awards. IuriiNorshteins Shazka skazok (Tae of Tales 1979), for example, won awards in Germany, France, and Canada shortly after its release. As MacFadyen has shown (2007:183), the film was called "the greatest animated film of all time" at the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics, and an international committee in Japan declared it the second greatest film" with another Norshtein creation, Ezhik v tumane (Hedgehog in the Fog 1975) coming in first. Both of the acclaimed Norhstein films declare a relationship to folklore. Hedgehog in the Fog does so in its opening credits, where it states that it is based on a folktale, and Tale of Tales does so in its title."

"I think [adult studios] are afraid of CG coming into the market because it will affect them, and they arent able to do it themselves because they do not have the creativity or the skills," says Darron. "If they do hire someone, theyre not willing to put up the budget or give it the financial backing required."

"You have to understand that many of the scenes were building just couldnt be done without the use of digital rendering."

"The temptations and pitfalls are to go too far -- to exaggerate too much and just put things on the screen because you can put them in. To me, the most important thing is the characterization: to know them, to understand them and appreciate them. The effects are just to allow you to depict the characters as WELL and vividly as possible."

"Animated porn has a long, international history—from the erotic woodblock prints of Japan’s Heian period to some of the earliest animated erotic cartoons of the Roaring Twenties (because of course once the moving picture came along, porn came with it). So if hentai and anime communities still thrive online and there are sites dedicated to Disney-inspired porn, it seems a shame that more people don’t talk about what makes this type of erotica so great. Clinical psychologist David Ley, PhD, author of Ethical Porn for Dicks, says that “animated erotica has been underground for a long time, largely because it’s often misunderstood.” Not only are cartoons something we regularly associate with childhood, but the style of a lot of pornographic cartoons is such that some characters featured may appear to be under the age of consent. “Though I might question how exactly you determine the age of a fictional animated character,” Ley added in an email to Glamour."