I’m going to keep it short and precise. Invincible does not have good animation, this can’t even be debated its downright terrible. I would go as far as to say its near unwatchable, I finally chose to stop being lazy and with that i have watch ALL of Season 1, the Eve special and all of the current episode of season 2. I can separate this in 2 major point.
Cheap Animation
Looking behind the studio its clear they chose to spend their 10M+ budget per episode on, and its clearly not animation. Being produce by basically cheap nobody’s its clear that the focus was on the voice cast [basically a bunch of celebrity snob with no real voice acting skills or a bunch of friends]
I mean you got to understand we are currently in the best era of animation, i could name the animator by name but that would be a waste of time. But the French, Korea and Japanese all have some of the best animated show both present and past. Ignoring the production problems, JJK, BNHA, BC and MANY MANY MANY other animated show. Are all producing top content i mean we are talking about about some of the BEST animated show and episode in the HISTORY of animation.
For example go watch the Omni-Man vs Invincible fight, and let compare it to the latest fight in JJK Sukuna vs Mahoraga. Its a night and day comparison, one has several known animator working on the project with multiple distinguish style to enhance the fight and take liberty to add more that not just
" slow motion gore ".
What make it worst is the fact that the lack of any real emotion to the character face rendering some of the " voice acting " and I’m using that term loosely here, Completely flat. This make the experience less enjoyable than it should be. You could honestly keep the crappy voice acting and just fix the animation and the show would go from a 4/10 to a easy 6/10 hell i’d go as far as give it a 8/10.
Celebrity Casting
Ok we can cut the Bull here we all know all the money is going to the Celebrity VA pockets. It does not take 2 braincell to figure that out, i’m willing to bet nearly half of them are friends or have ties to each other allowing them to get the gig.
I like mark VA, dare i say he the only one who sound right in the show and don’t seem like they are just " reading lines ". This is made worst by the fact some of the worst voice actor have major roles for the future of the book’s. I mean do we really want to have Seth voice Allen during the viltrumite war.
You could tell they’re running out of a budget when they just blatantly frame by frame montaged the fight at the end there and the comic readers just ate it up, definitely felt incredibly lazy and made the fight way shorter.