#westerm animation

[themousefromfantasyland]

I know that Hollywood's over-reliance on CGI is due to it being a cheap, non-unionized industry. But I think there's another factor: Extreme prejudice against animation.

In the last decades, executives, producers, and directors came to expect doing films that are simply impossible in live action. They want alien worlds not seen on Earth, amazing creatures with multiple heads, wings, and horns, and human characters flying like rockets or jumping over buildings. Nothing like this can be easily made with practical effects in live-action. They are just choosing the wrong media. Only animation can achieve all these things.

But animation in the West is stereotyped as a thing only for children, so how do you handle the problem?

Easy.

You rely on animation that can be photorealistic enough so you can pretend that Henry Cavill can fly and punch alien beasts. That's CGI animation.

So, you have an industry that actively looks down on animation, but is deeply dependent on it, although secretly.

[themousefromfantasyland]

Do you want to know why the fanbases of mainstream children's animated shows consist mostly of teens and young adults instead of actual children? Because these shows aren't for children.

Children's Animation in the West is a giant scam.

I think only 30% of productions are made with actual children in mind. The rest is written for teenagers and young adults, but they have to try to market to young children to get funds.

Your animated series might deal with heavy themes of abuse, trauma, capitalistic exploitation, and systematic oppression, but still has to find a way for children to buy the official toy line for the whole thing to be aired.