Canadian "animation"

>>85657550
Canadian law insists a certain percentage of content on TV must be canadian, so there's always a shortage of time that must legally be filled by just about anything. Also, the canadian government gives grants to business in canada, meaning that shitty companies can scrape by on government bucks. And to top it all off, Canada finally gives grants to quality independent filmmakers for them to make whatever old bullshit they want, to be thrown into the National Film Board. This means the top talent has no incentive to go commercial since they're given a perfectly good opportunity to get paid for doing their own shit at their own pace, without anybody telling them what to do, and any artist would leap for that opportunity.

So in Canada, the top players have no motivation to work on TV cartoons, while the shitty animators get funded by the government and there's a constant market for absolutely anything at all ensuring any garbage they spew out will keep getting bought up.

There's actually a lot of quality canadian animation though, it's just in the NFB rather than children's cartoons.

Well if you're talking about TV animation the answer is that the Shaw family started consolidation of most of Canada's kids / youth / animation producers and distributors under Corus Entertainment, starting in the mid to late 90's. Since then they've focused mainly on cheap and pre-school content.

There was a time that Nelvana had a pretty strong output of good cartoons but that ended pretty much as soon as they were bought up by Corus and the co-founders left the company.

>>85657699
>Canadian law insists a certain percentage of content on TV must be canadian

You guys have this bullshit too? I trought it was only here on Brazil

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>>85657550
What went so right?

>>85657550
teletoon canceled fred's head

>>85657699
So as an animator, would it benefit me if I decided to go work in canada for a bit?

>>85657550
animators smoke too much weed.

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>What went wrong?

Canada.

>>85657550
A
FUCKING
LEAF

>>85661046
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>>85660775
Probably not. Cheap animation is produced cheaply by skimping on and underpaying talent, and the industry is much larger in general in the USA. Another factor of why Canadian animation is bad is that a lot of talented Canadians go running down to the USA to take part in their bigger and more opportunity laden industry.

>>85661200
>the industry is much larger in general in the USA.

How so? I graduate with an animation major in a year, and i'm freaking out on where to go from there.

>>85660775
>>85661200
>>85661293
When you have American studios trying to open up shop in Canada in order to exploit the tax breaks, and sending their people up to oversee the operation, things can only improve.

On the flip side, if you're a crap animator, you'll probably get away a lot more with crappy work.

>>85661046

>B-but muh legal weed!

Main reason he won, and so far he's shaping up to be worse than his shitty dad.