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An All-CGI Cartoon is Exactly What It Says on the Tin — an animated TV show or movie which consists entirely of artwork made by computer software, and does not contain any frames drawn on physical media. Many 2D digital animated shows are made using software such as Adobe Flash, Toon Boom, and OpenToonz, or other digital artwork utilities. Meanwhile, 3DCG works tend to be modeled and/or animated in industry-leading software such as Autodesk's Maya and 3Ds Max, or even Blender. In modern times, this has become the rule rather than the exception for works made outside of Japan, France, or the United States (the latter in the case of television animation). Whether computer-made 2D animation should fall into the category of traditional animation or be lumped in with computer-generated imagery is usually up to the viewer — Wikipedia's list of computer animated films excludes features such as The Simpsons Movie and South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut.

Most CGI animation tends to be Western. While there are definitely examples of Japanese and Asian forms of CGI, almost all of the major films, franchises, and series done in computer animation are from the United States, Europe, or Canada.

Compare Machinima. Also see Painted CGI, a hybrid of hand-drawn and CGI.


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    African Animation 

    Anime — Films 

    Anime — Series 

    Asian Animation 

    Eastern European Animation 

    South American Animation 

    Western Animation — Films 

    Western Animation — Series 

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Butt-Ugly Martians

Butt-Ugly Martians was a short-lived CGI cartoon produced by the UK's Just Entertainment (in association with the US-based Mike Young Productions) for CITV. It focused on three butt-ugly Martians named B-Bop a Luna, 2T Fru-T and Do Wah Diddy who were reluctantly sent as scouts to the planet Earth under the commander of their ruler, the Emperor Bog, to make it suitable for conquest. However, they take a liking to Earth and its culture and instead pretend they enslaved it by sending fake progress reports to their boss. Bog starts to get suspicious of the reports, sending in forces to check out on how the trip is progressing, forcing the aliens to defend themselves and their newfound home when the time comes.

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