If Japanese animation is so cheap...

How would a 120 million dollar movie look?

Hayao Miyazaki's The Thief and the Cobbler

Fund it!

Is it so cheap? O: I didn't realize.

This makes me think of that animation that got Kickstarted recently though. The one about two luchador-esque wrestlers who fall in love? The guy's a masochist and the girl's a nun with a bit of a sadist streak? Some crazy animation? How big was the budget for that?

I won't. I'm not waiting another 40 years.

Japanese animation isn't cheap, but it's hella a lot cheaper than what the USA demands!! You also have to put what inflation and monetial value from country to country into consideration.

I doubt Hayao would be willing to work on anything but ideas from his own studio. Remember, he once worked on that film "Little Nemo In Slumberland" which he called "the worst experience in my professional career".

Well, it should be pointed out that a lot of Japanese animation houses subcontract to South Korea, just like a lot of US animation houses do (at least for smaller, TV projects; features are usually done in-house, if there's a house to do them in). If you're JUST talking the price of animation, it's not really THAT expensive in the US, even with animators' Union requirements; there are just a lot more other people in the mix (cough — useless executives —cough) who drive the domestic costs up.

Remember, since executives always make a bundle, really cheap animation is only possible with altruistic workers or sweatshop wages.

My best guess is something like south korean animation. Old anime movies are astonishingly similar in overall aesthetics to korean animation, having basically the same feeling as old paintings.

The best example of this is Arashi No Yoru Ni, which aesthetically not only resembles a south korean animated piece, but is also pretty damn close to the few chinese animated works I've seen. It's on par with Studio Ghibhli, but instead of just focusing on the details it invests more on the actual animation'.

Or no talent art school rejects.

Besides, unless it's something like say... Super Mario World, I'm pretty much accepting to the differences between TV and Movie (or in this case, Western Animation and Anime) quality animation.

Besides, it's not like American shows always look good^note hint, hint.

This is one pet peeve of mine. The gap between the executives and the ones whose work actually reaches the screens is so big that there's no way to live off working on a show unless you are the executive, or if you're fine living in poverty.