could someone explain why the budget affects animation and their art?
I'm a little confused on that myself.
This question puzzled me more than I thought it would. Have none of you had a limited amount of money to work with in order to complete a project? Or even just to buy something.
Like any project you have limited resources to complete the task. In this case it's a team that gets an order of a certain amount of episodes that must be completed by a specific date. And they get an amount of money to work with to do the job. Everything has to fit within that amount of money from salaries to equipment, outsourcing to other people what you can't do internally, licensing, etc. and by done until you were told to.
With the Hinata confession episode they used a lot of resources for it. Adding brand new scenes, making sure they're all drawn and animated, extra lines for the actors, more time was spend on it, better animators, etc.
That's why I say they spend their budget on Hinata's episode. More work, care and resources was put into it than the fight that happened after.
In an ideal world people would have all the time and resources to achieve anything, but that's not really the case in this world.
Sometimes you have to make sacrifices and we saw what they chose to sacrifice.