Favorite/least favorite animaton company

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What do you think is your best and worst in the art of animation?

Me, my favorites would be Toei (One of the legends, enough said), ILM (the kings in American CGI SFX), Digital Domain (Decent work, I like them best in the live action TF films), TMS (The did DIC's work in the 80's), Rough Draft Studios (Quite possibly one of the kings of the animation world), Pixar (I enjoy their animated films) and Akom (once you get past their work on Transformers G1 Season 3, they do pretty decent work)

My least favorites would have to be Filmation (They are too cheap in their work I find), Anivsion (I just didn't like their work on the Simpsons from seasons 3-9, with some exceptions that is) and Lucasfilm animation (from what I've seen of Star Wars: The clone Wars, it just looks bad)
 
I like both Toei (One Piece) Rough Draft Studios (The Simpsons, Futurama & others).

Anyone here like Will Vinton Studios? They ARE the inventors of Claymation after all.

As for dislikes....hmmm never thought about those.
 
I'd rather just list my top favorites. If I were to list my least favorites, I'd likely offend the majority of the folks here.
(In order, and listing my favorite period/series)
1. Warner Bros-1942-1957
2. MGM-MGM Avery, T&J
3. Disney-All Donald, 30's Mickey, all Goofy
4. Lantz-All 1944-1949
5. Famous-All 1940's
6. Fleischer-Popeye, Talkartoons
 
Pixar (Incredibles, Up, etc.), Moonscoop (Fantastic Four: World's Greatest Heroes, Code Lyoko, etc.), and FreshTV (Total Drama Island, 6teen, etc.)



Don't really have any least favorites.
 
I know you are just a troll, but I get really annoyed with people bashing Drawn Together without giving any real reason why they disliked the show besides the generic and unintelligent "It was horrible/sucked". It's hard to deny the series was that bad when you had a lot of Futurama writers working on it.

The series definitely relied on shock humor a lot, but there were some genuinely funny and well written gags in there that were devoid of shock humor. The series made me laugh, and made me laugh hard. Despite its sometimes gross humor, it was always hilarious and extremely unpredictable (hard to find a TV series that is unpredictable every episode these days).

The animation in Drawn Together was also top notch for a cable series. But like SNES said, Rough Draft Studios is a very good animation studio.
 
I disliked Drawn Together (way too much in the way of high school-level "tee-hee" gay, feces and sex humor with almost no substance and a waste of a really good premise) but you can't really blame any of that on the animation studio. They're just doing what the company that produces the show tells them too. You blame the writers, directors and showrunners for something like that. Not the animators.
 
Yeah, you cannot blame an animation company for most things unless one of the faults was poor animation, though unless it's either budgetary concerns, or limited animation.

And Before I forget, is CGCG related in anyway to Wang Film Productions?
 
My favorites are Hanna-Barbera, Ruby-Spears, Filmation, DePatie-Freleng, Rankin-Bass, Warner Bros., Disney, etc.- anything that's old school and good. I don't like any kind of anime. That's my personal stand on this matter.
 
Oh, and if we are allowed to mention companies which doesn't actually handle the animating of cartoons, but rather just the writing, then the best animation company is of course the one behind the best cartoon of all time: namely Gracie Films, the company behind The Simpsons. As much as i read about the origins of The Simpsons, it never stops seeming like a pure miracle to me that Groening and Brooks were able to get hold of so many so incredibly talented writers for their little of-the-wall cartoon show.
 
My favorites:
Disney (when they were good)
Warner Bros
Hanna-Barbera
Nickelodeon (when they were good)
DIC Entertainment
Saban Entertainment
Film Roman
Cookie Jar Entertainment
Nelvana
Filmation
and some small independent production company's.

My least favorites:
4Kids Entertainment
Nickelodeon (the way they are now)
Disney (the way they are now)
Cartoon Network (the way they are now)
 
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