>starts doing a bunch of animated stuff in the 90s both in film and television
>just stops
Why did he do it?
>starts doing a bunch of animated stuff in the 90s both in film and television. >just stops
>starts doing a bunch of animated stuff in the 90s both in film and television
>just stops
Why did he do it?
He . . . . got distracted.
They really did have the kid gloves on for Disney
Pokemon
He did it to himself by forcing Elmyra on Pinky and the Brain. That was the last show he did.
Wanted to be the new Walt Disney and he realized he bit off more than he could chew. He's one of the people responsible for Dreamworks Animation so in some ways he succeeded though he hasn't really had much to do with the company for decades.
The death of 2D animation is the most likely answer
2D animation was nowhere near dying in the 90s.
Late 90s they were, moronic zoomer. That's when he stopped. Anime killed TV animation while CGI killed theatrical animation.
>force zoomer meme
moronic fricking obese amerilard mutt frickface
it was, 2d artists were unionized and 3d artists were starting to blossom
doing a bunch of animated stuff in the 90s both in film and television
>>just stops
>Why did he do it?
I imagine frustrations with how animation was made at the time. Tiny Toons, animaniacs and their spin offs never got as close to reliving the glory of older cartoons than the four Roger Rabbit shorts. Gooftroop of all things has more warner brother silliness and slap stick than most eps of tiny toons and animaniacs. International teams that aren't all english speaking just aren't good at slapstick. It takes a lot of fast action and isn't something to communicate at 3 am with fax machines and expensive long distance phone calls.
At some point he had to have realize he wasn't going to bring back the glory days and gave up.
money
So he could “work” with children. He would have a lot of “focus groups” and “interviews”. Gross
If he’s the American Jimmy Saville and thousands of stories come out about him a week after he dies…no one would be shocked.
He realized that animation will never get even half the respect that 3d shit gets and dipped. Cant blame him. If you’re in it for glory and money you’re wasting your time on animation.
Pokémon happened
Didn’t he have a falling out with Don Bluth sometime after American Tail?
He started working on animated stuff with Bluth in the mid 80s and really mostly dropped his active involvement with most of his business ventures outside of his core directing gigs in the early 00s (after Dreamworks started up), there was a solid 15 years where he was doing animated projects which I'd say is a good run.
He doesn't seem to have as much passion for CG but he did make Tintin
In the 80's he was the fun action and family movie guy. After he did Schindler's list he started winding down his more fun projects