[quote="Elton John"]I'm not trying to undermine the rest of Tarzans visual quality.
To me it's like, say there's this great tv show but it has one character that weighs down a bit all the other positive things about certain scenes he/she is in. There's another tv show that is not as great in most areas but has nothing that brings down the show. That to me is Tarzan compared to the lion king.
The rest of Tarzans visual quality is probably better than the lion king but there's one thing that keeps me from saying that it's better as a whole.[/quote]
Don't worry, I wasn't indicating that you were undermining the other visuals. What I was trying to say was that the specific flaw in question doesn't really hinder the rest of the work all that significantly.
If the use of jarring digitally painted 3D models was a consistent issue and was really poorly rendered all the way through, it most likely would bring down everything else a little bit. But only a small handful of shots showcasing a small clashing of styles doesn't really put a knife in a film's side when every other aspect of its animation trumps another film's in the same department, especially when the core discussion revolves around what has the best hand-drawn animation. A little bit questionable CG model work is of small consequence in the whole picture of comparing the general animation of those two films.
Are the visuals technically better than TLK as a whole? No, probably not. Like you said, it probably wouldn't be entirely accurate to say so due to one small aspect of the earlier film not showing its age as badly as the other's. However, when the majority of every other element(especially the hand-drawn work) revolving around the animation can potentially beat out TLK's on a technical level, the claim that "The Lion King has the best animation" becomes a subject of debate, as there are a good deal of worthy contenders(certain Golden Age features, Tarzan, those early DreamWorks films or some Don Bluth works) ready to challenge that.