Anyone else think ME3 looked better then MEA

Depends on the zone/scene.

Citadel wipes the floor with the Nexus but Hyperion looks better than the Citadel.

Turians look bad.

But Salarians in cut scenes look incredible.

Biotic explosions look like ME2.

But Drack is best looking Krogan for a long time. Despite being all of 5ft tall for some reason.

Its a mixed bag.

Facial animation is problematic, but overall I'd say that MEA all around looks better on a technical level beyond that, though not exactly by leaps and bounds. The environments are definitely superior, and there's a far better sense of space that the original trilogy did not enjoy. As for cartoonish, I'd say that's BioWare's signature aesthetic. They always look a bit cartoonish.

It depends on what aspect.

Not even remotely. The facial animations are no worse than in ME3, the just seem like it because (a) the models and textures are far more detailed in MEA and ( 2017 games shouldn't have 2012-level animations.

Everything else looks much better than in ME3 - the body animations, the environments, the textures, the lighting, the butts... In fact, this game as a whole looks fantastic aside from facial animations and some weird design choices (eg Addison's makeup). Oh and hair, although that's still better than it was in the OT.

The only thing better in ME3 is the facial animations. Aside from that, Andromeda is better imo.

Most of the problem comes IMO from the coherence from the entire world.
There are great nuances of effort shown in the game.
Some characters have a terrible rigging/skinning making metal armor looks like paper folding.
Some characters (especially korgans on new tuchanka) have missing lightning resulting in a total black/silverish face where only the basic reflections are shown but lack textures.
Animations are absolutely terrible but what gives it away among everything is the "mise en scène" of every scene/character.
The lack of proper cutscene with characters behaving in a certain manner really gives away the non-natural feeling of the animations falling deeply in the uncanny valley with very detailed texture but terrible animations compared to the realisticness of some models.
I do not like that camera that just get closer for each dialog, character facing you is baiscaly repeating a set of loops that reveals how life-less its programming is resulting in a total cartoon look.

ME3's animations were a step down from 2. I'll say that ME3 looked a bit crisper. IDK it's weird. I'm having a hard time focusing on enemies in Andromeda. 

ME2 and ME3 both looked stylistically and intentionally consistent.

No. Though i do think ME3 has much better sound design than MEA.

Graphical quality of MEA is good most of the time. The lighting can be hit or miss at times but overall it looks pretty good from a technical perspective.

Most of my complaints about the looks are stylistic choices, like the whitewashed Turian and Krogan faces, the neanderthal human faces, the man hands on the human/asari females, and the stubby human bodies that look like 1/4 of their legs are missing.