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TomRoid Since: Oct, 2011
#1: Nov 12th 2011 at 7:38:38 AM

And is it really other people animating and doing the frames?

RTaco Since: Jul, 2009
#2: Nov 12th 2011 at 1:42:20 PM

Most feature films aren't, and a lot of Flash animation is done in-house.

Typically, you have the guys over here laying things out and the overseas studio doing the in-betweens, then clean-up is done back here again.

edited 12th Nov '11 1:42:49 PM by RTaco

SilentlyHonest Since: Oct, 2011
#3: Nov 12th 2011 at 2:55:25 PM

More profit in outsourcing. For some reason it's cheaper to leave a Godzilla sized carbon footprint, then it is to do it domestic. Thing is it's not just this way for animation. It's like this for anything. Spin around three times and point to something in your room and it's probably not made here.

RTaco Since: Jul, 2009
#4: Nov 12th 2011 at 3:15:44 PM

It's cheaper because American labor has higher minimum wages.

edited 12th Nov '11 3:15:58 PM by RTaco

truteal animation elitist from the great southern land Since: Sep, 2009
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#5: Nov 12th 2011 at 5:48:47 PM

R taco is right, most flash is done in the show's homeland, but we should savor this because in 5 years or so, we'll get Asian sweatshop-made flash

Also, I may be wrong on this (I'm too lazy to fact-check) but most CGI-shows are outsourced to India.

http://s1.zetaboards.com/Conceptual_Evolution/ http://sagan4.com/forum/index.php
Gray64 Since: Dec, 1969
#6: Nov 12th 2011 at 11:33:44 PM

It's not so much that the US has a high minimum wage as other nations have a really LOW minimum wage, or rather just really low wages and no laws at all concerning minimum pay standards; couple that with most executives desire for really obscene profits (under most circumstances you could make most items and provide most services that are outsourced, at home, and still operate at a profit, just not at as great a profit, or as great a rate of profit growth, as most corporate executives seem to demand) and thus you have the magic that is outsourcing.

Disney feature animation is done in the US by animators who work directly for Disney, and Pixar CGI is done much the same way. Portions of Warner Bros. DC universe films, at least according to Lauren Montgomery, are done in house in the US.

kyun Since: Dec, 2010
#7: Nov 15th 2011 at 7:54:59 AM

The first season of Speed Racer The Next Generation wasn't outsourced. Kappa Mikey wasn't either.

Now look where they are. :P

[up][up]Don't look now. Asian-run Flash shows are already being made! They have been for 5 years now! What will happen to those people in the States who want to learn to actually animate!? I'm surprised animation schools are still around here!

edited 15th Nov '11 7:58:00 AM by kyun

RTaco Since: Jul, 2009
#8: Nov 15th 2011 at 8:01:03 AM

TV animation has been outsourced for more than 20 years. It's film and video games you wanna go for.

edited 15th Nov '11 8:01:28 AM by RTaco

Gray64 Since: Dec, 1969
#9: Nov 15th 2011 at 6:46:18 PM

There are loads of areas open for skilled animators, from tv/web commercials all the way up to features, and yes video game animation is a BIG area for 'em.

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