What do you think is the deal with that? I find it hard to believe that animations takes as long as it does. Are they just stuck in an endless corporate hell meetings, deciding whether or not to cancel the show because it costs too much overhead?
The need for longer series died out. Networks like Cartoon Network used to have a cap of 60-65 episodes for the following reasons, thanks Google AI:
This ensured 13 weeks of daily, five-day-a-week programming for syndication, allowing networks to cycle content, manage costs, and avoid expensive renewals.
With syndication no longer being a factor in the new streaming era, there is simply no reason to continue this practice, so we get less content as a result.
As for the rest, it’s Hollywood accounting in action and spans far beyond animation. These animation productions have been consumed by the greater Hollywood sphere where expenses are maneuvered around to damn near everything but the core. For example, look at Marvel. One would hope the biggest film universe based on being a live cartoon would center its budget around the effects. Nope, about half the budget of Infinity War & End Game goes to RDJ alone. Avengers Doomsday is even more ridiculous spending money to get RDJ, RDJ his own personal security team, RDJ two trailers - one for him and another for his cats, and I am sure a bunch of other pointless shit to keep Iron Man on set for 10 mins.
If we are talking Invincible, it has an insane budget that gets eaten away completely by the voice cast. Seth Rogen ain’t cheap and you know he is splurging on having his own team in conjunction with Amazon’s produce this thing. There is no way the money spent on Invincible really goes to Invincible, it probably gets funneled into Hollywood celeb’s own unnecessary vanity teams and stipulations. Then you have all the other superfluous items: some giant HR department, an unnecessary amount of writers thanks to the union demands, probably lawyers for the inevitable sex scandal, the catering company, AIPAC, The Kamala Harris campaign, California dues, money laundering, etc.. By the end, the animation is the least funded part of the animation project.
