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Message: <blockquote data-quote="reanjr" data-source="post: 2037495" data-attributes="member: 20740">In Japan, T.V. is dominated by animation, so it makes sense that their animation is going to progress more quickly than America's for that medium.  But America's still way ahead on cinematic animation.The current American television animation, to me, seems to be somewhat of a fad/company thing.  You've got the Ren & Stimpy style animation that grew to dominate the Cartoon Network and Nickelodean, and you've got the Groening/Simpsons animation that grew to dominate prime time television.It's not really that there is nothing else out there, it's just that those two companies and their clones do most of the animation.But on the cinema front, you keep getting massive CG breakthroughs (mostly from Pixar, but also Dreamworks) and even on non-CG (though certainly computer-aided) you still get absolutely beautiful movies like the Iron Giant and Prince of Egypt.  Non-CG animation is just getting a bit rare nowadays.</blockquote>