Zura_Orokamono said:Hrybami said:Well you should take into consideration that One Piece has been airing for about 20 years non-stop now, so it is impossible to have an animation similar to the 1-cour seasonnal. Those short anime had at least one year of planning while each One Piece episode are made several months before release only. Given that, and do you also watch the seasonal anime? There's a lot of badly animated anime getting released with derpy face and other animated flaw. One Piece doesn't have much of these flaws or rather it happens occasionnaly, but the lenght of One Piece make it seems like it's a regular problem while it isn't. One Piece has consistent animation and had some pretty great sasuga from time to time. It's just generally good for a show as long as One Piece to have such decent and flawless animation throughout all these years. One Piece currently have good animatiom that can stand by most of the other seasonal show this season. It's not as good as P.A. Works or KyoAni but still above average.
We clearly have different standards for what "above average" and "flawless" means. 'Derpy faces' are indeed a more occasional flaw (even though it's very noticeable), but other production issues occur in almost every episode, like terrible framerate, awful sound direction, scenes that are stretched awkwardly long and lack of details on the characters and environment. And the fact that a scene can look good while the very next one can look terrible makes the animation anything but consistent.
Now of course you can't compare a show that has been continuously on air for the past 20 years with high-budget short series, but I can compare it with other long series like Pokemon, Detective Conan, Bleach, Naruto and Hunter x Hunter who, despite having some reeeaaally bad moments, managed to keep the the animation ranging from decent to really good overall through proper planning.
Seasonal anime that look bad, usually do so because a lack of budget, One Piece producers have all the budget they need but are too greedy to invest in the show's quality as long as they can keep it running. They're understandably not like PA or KyoAni, but they're not even like Deen or Pierrot at this point. I know the animators try, but the producers clearly don't care so I won't hesitate criticizing their product.