It may also have some great opportunity to have some interesting kickstarter/patreon/indiegogo, "us supporting the creators" scene, something like that (maybe a webpage like youtube or a youtube premium dedicated to it?) and have a very niche audience devoted to it, kinda like E-Sports are now, but way smaller.milojthatch wrote: I agree. I think in so much time we'll end up at a place where not as many animated films are produced by Hollywood for a while and a number of animation studio might shut down or shrink to near non-existence. History has an interesting way of repeating itself. However, this might not be a bad thing. Hopefully if/when such a time period comes, it will help to recapture that spark of creativity that in the past lead to things like computer animation, stop-motion animation and even hand drawn animation itself. It could be an exciting time actually!
In the past, it was worse because being in the indie circles in the 70s and 80s meant nobody saw your movie, and if you where waaay lucky, your movie became this weird cult hit and now is highly regarded, and that serves you to gain momentum and get big. Kinda what happened with Ralph Baskhi. Now we have the internet so we can build up something like an animation community, kinda what we have here, so we all get to discover the latest animated 2D movie and watch it on stream, or gather on dedicated cinemas.
Getting smaller may indeed be better than the bloated thing we have now.
I also have like this weird wish, where I really, really really want the "old guard", you know, Glenn Keane, Eric Goldberd, Richard Williams, Andreas Deja, everyone so they can gather together an make like a "swan song" kind of movie, something that can make them say "yeah, we are masters of the craft, you made great mistake throwing us away like trash" etc.
My fear is that they get older and older and we may never get to see something that great, even if if only two of them, heck one of them will get the chance to do something like that. hopefully Don Bluth and Baskhi crowdfunding attempts make others try to do the same.