It was never alive to begin with. 99% all Hollywood animation can be described as a combination of musical and family adventure comedy. Even going back to the early 40s. I don't think there is one single Hollywood animation that is a drama.
What killed western animation?
Wyatt Barnes
Cameron Morales
It's seen as childish and inappropriate for older audiences. This severely restricts what can be made as there is an odd idea in Hollywood that any film aimed towards children must be incredibly basic and mindless.
Ian Lopez
99% of animation is aimed at children and adolescents, that's what killed it. They never used the medium to it's full extent.
Jayden Martin
they're not just random scribbles, user
Christopher Brown
I want to come inside
Bentley Ross
Unironically the new generation of animators all being weirdos who grew up on tumblr. We're never going go be able to escape the twee quirky aesthetic.
Nathan Gutierrez
SAUCE
Juan Taylor
this. no respectable western animator will ever work for pennies and it's almost always been cheaper to simply outsource animation to gook sweatshop (has been happening since the 70s, look it up, nearly every western animated cartoon has been animated by a gook/jap studio). Since western artists want to be paid more, they get no work, no work and no money means no motivation to animate, since it's a long, tedious and painstaking process. All that work can be done at very little cost and time by worker ant gooks who work like machines. Capitalism is what killed western animation, essentially.
Christopher Russell
The problem is older and deeper than tumblr
Samuel Collins
Unions