• There is actually quite a lot of animation like this in the independent sphere these days. YouTube has a lot of up and comers with some amazing samples, short films or series. I don’t think I have ever actually seen as much animation that goes hard since the 90’s when they only went hard to sell kids toys.

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      Sure but that is the Indie space. They’ve always done their own thing. The Last Unicorn was a theatrical release with wide home video distribution as well. It’s great to see Indy’s getting more exposure and coverage these days but I’d like to see even the large more commercial offerings offering a little more along this line. Of course I’m also an irrepressible bakshi fan. So there is that too. And modern day Hollywood would never touch that