Why aren't they really prominent in animation compared to America and France?
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Why aren't they really prominent in animation compared to America and France?
Why aren't they really prominent in animation compared to America and France?
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They make a lot of stuff, you just don't hear about it quite often. Aardman's animations are the ones that achieved international success the most arguably.
The only countries that are capable of doing high-end animation is US, Canada, France, and Japan (with korea outsourced for inbetweening). I suppose a lot like how semi-conductor fabrication can only be done in a few countries, animation at any prominent scale requires certain business environment, history, tax credits, etc.
There is a scale transformation that happens that lies between doing puppet rigged cbeebies cartoons, to doing high end feature animation and everything that precedes it.
At least we have Aardman.
I think most of their stuff is for young children. Most of those brit cartoons I saw were on like noggin and pbs sprout and shit for pre schoolers back when I was like in... well pre school, you know?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Framestore
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Williams_(animator)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amblimation
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Baxter_(animator)
Do these count?
>He gets his sources from Wikipedia
There isn't really a strong tradition in comics in the way France, America, Japan or even Italy has it. There's influential individuals but most of them find success in the U.S.
As a result, the preconception of cartoons/animation being frivolous preschool stuff is stronger and it's not really taken seriously by people who aren't already invested.
Which is funny because for a while British animation arguably leaned slightly more adult. Animal Farm, Watership Down, Yellow Submarine and the Channel 4 stuff where more independantly British, but it just didn't seem to grab the general public's imagination.
Talking to older people, I suspect there's also a perception that animation is America's "thing" and not culturally British. It's really weird.
Brits practically dominate childrens animation, a lot of their shows are also either regionally dubbed or masqurade as american shows (i.e. gumball)
>masqurade as american shows
Wasn't there a Dennis the Menace cartoon where they explicitly said they made it look like it was more American so it could be exported more easily. Combine that with
and it seems more that people don't want "British" anything, and Britain makes it accordingly.
>Brits practically dominate childrens animation
>gumball
Gumball is not the same audience as CBeebies
Because whenever British media is exported it's remade rather than actually exported itself.
Whats the point in doing more when youve already acheived perfection
Forgot pic somehow
This is what English cartoons look like.
terry gilliam is a mutt
I've been to London. The only non- mutts are foreigners.
Because any Brit with creative talent makes a beeline to America, with good fricking reason.
We work with france a lot, they get the credit, we get the bill.
Universal Credit
theory
think brit drawgays sit in their brick house bedrooms and draw cartoons, but since within their culture it is seen as such intense homosexualry, they immediately get mugged + stabbed if they reveal that to somebody
so they just disappear from the nation asap and become part of the wall of credits on some foreign project