Western traditional Animation (is it dead?)

[Gigano]

The very high quality 2D animations - the meticulously hand drawn ones - are probably largely dead, as they cost too much to produce on a regular basis. This of course doesn't mean that the stories they tell need suffer in quality:

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Probably true. Fortunately that's only in America as you say. Other countries in the world don't really care less - they don't have the budget to do America's big CGI productions, so animated stuff still gets produced. In fact labour-intensive but cheap traditional animation styles have huge practical advantages, especially in countries where the ruling regime won't allow you to make a feature film with real actors by traditional means, especially one which may be seen as critical to the government:

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As this one showcase exceedingly well (didn't care much for Princess back when it came out, its priest vs. porn story being... biased... to say the least, though the bit with the voice actor recording was utterly hilarious). While the visuals are primitive - like the cartoon it was based on - the story is anything but. While I believe this particular film was produced in France where Satrapi had immigrated to, and that government censorship thus wasn't much of a problem for it, primitive animation certainly can offer a cheap and easy platform for complex and controversial messages.

So the hand drawn beauty of old is on the decline, but the medium is certainly alive and well in the West as well.

 

[TheIr0nMike]

No

Stop with this "traditional (blank) is dead" crap.

 

[Scarim Coral]

I agree in some parts but not all of it. We are pretty much at the stage (or at least near toward it) of getting sick of CGI animated. I disagree about 2d being dead as evidences from the people above me. I would like to add that as long as Craig McCracken, Bruce Timm and Genndy Tartakovsky are still alive, 2d animated still got it place on Earth (check out their latest shows Sym-Bionic Titan well ok that got a bit of CGI, Young Justice and the latest DC animated DVD movies.

 

[A random person]

I don't think it's dead by any means, but it will probably take a comparatively niche route (not obscure, by any means, but think Adult Swim instead of Disney). Part of my reasoning is recent Cartoon Network shows like Adventure Time and Regular Show.

My inner toddler was just filled with glee.