Recent American Animation

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Heidi A

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I see that majority of western cartoons have been either Canadian of French, but has there been any American -MADE recentely? I was just wondering if U.S.A. still caree to make their own. And I want examples from TV. No movies.
 
I guess Chowder, Flapjack, Secret Saturdays, Batman: Brave and the Bold, Clone Wars, Penguins of Madagascar, Spectacular Spider-Man, Back at the Barnyard, Phineas and Ferb, and Goode Family don't count then? Those are recent example that come off the top of my head right now.
 
But for 2009? Well, yeah there is The Brave And the Bold , but The Penguins of Madagascar is a spinoff of a series of movies. Eh, whatever.
 
But Batman's based on a comic.....
Anyhoo, that came out last year anyway.

This year, we got Sit Down, Shut Up as well. And the year ain't over yet. Nick is currently the largest producer of television animation in the United States.
 
I agree i stopped caring back in 2005. i mean theres very few US toons made after that I like (TFA & Clone wars are all i can think of) & in this entire decade theres probably only 15 mabye 20 toons max ive truly enjoyed that may sound like alot but considering the rediculious amount of Toons i enjoyed in the 90's its not even close. Thats why I stick mostly to Animes & British Sci-fi/Comedy nowadays.

But im sure US animators will get back on track next. decade....hopefully.:sweat:
 
Not the case for me. Almost all of my favorite cartoons on TV right now are from the States (Chowder, Flapjack, TSS, Batman TBATB, and The Spectacular Spider-Man). Plus there's Transformers Animated, which ended only very recently, and Adventure Time starting up soon.

And "the majority"? There's a fair amount of Canadian stuff out there right now, but I'm still seeing a lot less of it than animation from their southern brother, and even less from France.
 
Here's the thing, you didn't give a definition of "Recent." Recent for me is like 1-3 years for animation since it is a long process to get finalized.

There is Adventure Time, and it looks pretty sweet. Of course it isn't out yet, but still, looks awesome.
 
The majority of Western cartoons are Canadian or French? Are you serious? There are plenty of American made cartoons: SpongeBob Squarepants, Back at the Barnyard, The Mighty B!, The Penguins of Madagascar, Transformers Animated, the Ben 10 franchise, Star Wars: The Clone Wars, Batman: The Brave and the Bold, The Spectacular Spider-Man, The Secret Saturdays, The Marvelous Misadventures of Flapjack, Chowder, Yin Yang Yo! and Phineas & Ferb, to name only a few. And there are plenty more to come.

Really, a few acquisitions here and there does not equate a French/Canadian takeover. People need to relax.

Anyway, why are so many people obsessed with a cartoon's country of origin? Does it really matter where a cartoon comes from as long as it's good?
 
He's really splitting hairs as what counts as recent American animation.

Next thing you know, he won't include a cartoon if it's animated in overseas. In which case, that reduces the number of recent shows to zero.
 
That's what I thought after looking through this thread. No offense to anyone, but I couldn't care less about where a cartoon series is made as long as I enjoy it. In fact, I rarely even think about where a cartoon is made when I watch it, if ever. If I like at least some of the characters and I enjoy the storyline, that's all that really matters to me in the long run.
 
Recent American animation should count as ANY project conceived and produced in this country. It doesn't matter where it's animated, how long it lasted or if it was derived from something originating from another country.

Game Freak is adding way too many ridiculous stipulations, IMHO.
 
I guess I wasn't thinking much... again. I probably got the idea that USA was getting lazy by licensing foreign cartoons more than making their own.
 
As I said earlier, just because networks acquire an import here and there doesn't mean that American cartoons are falling off. Acquisitions are simply more budget-efficient; it's less expensive to acquire an already made series from another source than it is to produce a completely new one from scratch.

Anyway, what constitutes an "American" cartoon and a "foreign" cartoon in the first place? What country it's conceived in? Because a lot of the so-called "American" cartoons are animated overseas.
 
You said recently not this year and all of those shows are recently made and are ether still in production or aired new episodes this year. There is Also Wolverine and the X-men which has a second season being made right now so it counts. And there are four new American made shows in the works for Cartoon network. Adventure Time, Cartoonstitute, Sym-Bionic Titan, and Generator Rex.

Also Cartoonstitute being a series of shorts could make way for a couple new shows based on the better recieved shorts.

They don't seem to be getting lazy to me.
 
The problem with many American animated shows these days is the fact that TV executives more than ever are controlling the direction and stories of these shows. That's why international animation seems better, because their staffs don't have these bigwig TV suits rewriting their stuff and telling them what to do with their shows, at least not to the degree that it is in the U.S. With the exception of big names with name clout like Matt Groening and Seth McFarlane and to a lesser extent Bruce Timm, most non- "name" people involved in U.S. TV animation are basically giving up any creative control they have once the scripts leave their hands and are sent to the TV executives.
 
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