Animation is for everyone!
If there’s one thing about Hollywood that drives me the craziest, it’s that it is determined to pigeonhole things into easily understandable boxes. We see this a lot with people stuck making the same genres over and over again, but we often forget it happens to film mediums as well.
Animation is a way to deliver any story in the world, with any characters you want. It’s a hard, laborious process, usually done by a collective of artists working together.
At the Academy Awards a week ago, we saw the hosts diminish animation, basically saying it was just for kids.
Now, I’m sure you can think of plenty of animated movies for adults, for kids, and for everything in between. Animation is for everyone. Lord and Miller, the producers and directors behind many animated movies and TV shows, wrote an open letter in Variety yesterday, skewering Hollywood’s myopic view of animation.
In their words:
Author: Jason Hellerman
This article comes from No Film School and can be read on the original site.
