When was the last time all toons where animated in the US?

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Where things like The Great Mouse Detective, all the Looney Tunes stuff, and a majority of the Disney stuff all animated in the US? When did things start shipping off to over seas locations, and what's the real deal as to why that happened?

We used to be able to produce great animations....fluid, well designed, etc.
 
It's not that animators in the US can't produce fluid, well thought out designs. It's just that US animators are a hell of a lot more expensive then overseas animators, which is why the move was made to have stuff shipped overseas: In order to cut down on production costs. With Disney 2D theathre movies no longer being made and the fact that animation has been outsourced TV wise since at least the 80's. So I would say the 70's was probably the last time that cartoons were all animated in the US. In fact I think the only cartoons still fully animated in the US without being outsourced in some form are cheaper, flash made cartoons found on Adult Swim/Comedy Central. Everything else though, overseas.
 
ALL toons? It's been a looooong time. Ever since Rocky and Bullwinkle was outsourced to Mexico, most cartoon studios have been handing animation duties to foreigners.
 
But you're forgetting the CGI movies from DreamWorks, Disney, Pixar and other studios. Those are completely animated domestically, for sure.

I don't see what a big deal this is, though. We get better-looking animation than the Hanna-Barbara/Filmation stuff back in the days.
 
Same. There's no real reason not to outsource animation if you can, since you can get better work done for cheaper... unless it's an 80s toon like Ninja Turtles, then you get bad animation for another reason entirely.
 
At least one American animation company, Rankin-Bass, had been outsourcing animation to Japan since the mid-1960's, so you'd have to go back at least that far. I suspect the last time there has been no foreign outsourcing was when the major film studios all had their own in-house animation houses (mid-1950's?). It was around then that labor and production costs began to skyrocket, and a lot of studios shut down their cartoon short departments.
 
If you are looking when cartoons were entirely animated in the US, that would probably be back like in the 40's. I think TV shows and movies for the most part were animated in other countries.
 
It's definitely alot cheaper, but I don't see how it's better work... In most cases the actual animation quality is probably a little worse, such as characters off-model, bland lifeless movements, etc. I'm just generalizing here though.
 
I know the interstitial animation for the Bugs Bunny Show in ths 50s was done by the WB Animation department, but other than that, I can't think of a TV show done domestically. The only way that new animation even got on the air in US was because of the low costs of out-sourcing, I think.
 
If you're talking about when they first started outsourcing animation, it was probably in the 50's. I don't know about Crusader Rabbit, but R&B is the oldest cartoon I know that has their animation done in another country.



No matter what country it is, all of them are capable of producing great animation. It's a matter of talent and money.
It's not like animation done in America is great all the time...
 
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