I cannot remember the exact video, or maybe even post here, I got the info from, but 2D is just dead. Many of the schools have phased it out completely other than likely flash animation. Companies also don’t want to switch thanks to the time consumption. 3D is more costly a medium, but the products are shit out faster, which is why all the movie studios use it, and I guess Nickelodeon with all their reboots. Any extra cost can be made up by releasing two-three movies in the span of one 2D.
For some reason I can't quote you. But if that's the case than animation is dead!!! And we are in hell now.
I honestly have no idea where this industry is heading anymore, but at least Puss provides some hope.
I honestly can't find any Western animated film, indie or professional, that interests me anymore (even on YouTube), and I think I can say the same for most guys, as the reason they look to anime is that anime is the only medium where shounen and seinen (meaning the audience is mainly for males) exist, since they are virtually non-existent in Western animation. A lot of Western men have either grown out of watching Western animation or were pushed out of the audience demographic Western animation is going towards, which is now predominantly women, troons, and beta males.
The list I put out for recommended Western indie animation to watch such as Astartes, TIE Fighter, Spall and Splinter, are literally one of the only animated films that I have enjoyed, mostly because of the violence, cinematography, immersion, and environmental storytelling, qualities that most Western animation have failed to achieve. I tried to look fucking everywhere on YouTube to find an animated film that is like this but now I have given up. I would also love historical dramas in animated form, but it's impossible to find something. The only cool indie animation I can even bother watching because the amount of effort given is LEGO stopmotions, but even then, gems are usually rare due to most stopmotions being too childish for my tastes.
Western animated movies and TV shows are self-explanatory. I have little interest watching low-quality children films (would like a more Tolkien-esque epic) that is dominant in so many industries that doesn’t feel like the old Pixar or old Dreamworks. TV animation is too woke and there is an obvious audience they’re going for and it’s definitely not me.
Most indie animation on YouTube nowadays are mainly done by women, and thus cater to the concept of cuteness, intelligence of the lowest denominator, and slice of life that they took from Miyazaki animes (I noticed it is mainly this and other cute anime films and not from
Akira or
Jin-Roh). Because of this, most indie animation is just either anthropomorphic shit or slice of life inserts that deals with the most simplest themes that is only befitting for a child. Other indie animation is just meme stuff or just not interested in telling a story. Plus, most of these animators are limited to certain areas of America, most of them liberal, so they, and the fans of Western animation, think almost alike.
I can say for sure that the animations put out by today's animators is no longer for me anymore. I am not in the audience demographic that the animators are going for, because I am not their self-inserts or whatever. I don't think I can find anything that I would enjoy anymore from today's Western animation even though I enjoyed so much of it in the past. It's whatever; I have downloaded an animation software app FlipAClip to start doing some 2D animations and I can share it on the Kiwi Farms just to show ideas that I would like in future animations. Right now though, I'm still trying to master drawing people and understand shading, which is a challenge.
