I cannot express enough how true this is. The key animators in a lot of Anime studios are overworked, but there are also “grunt farms” which handle the heavy work of filling in the animations. Even US (and really, everyone else) studios farm out a lot of work to these houses, who take the barebones stuff the main staff have assembled and turn it into a polished product.
Comment on Why are American animations more expensive than Asian animations?
simple@lemm.ee 2 days ago
Labor is significantly cheaper in Asia compared to the US. Simple as. If you compare the budget of an anime compared to an average American show, it’s night and day.
This isn’t a good thing. Eastern animators are often overworked and earning less than minimum wage compared to the U.S.
Zonetrooper@lemmy.world 1 day ago
jeffw@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Not just animators, salaries can differ for voice actors.
Marketing budgets also tend to be larger for something like Inside Out.
jqubed@lemmy.world 2 days ago
It’s why a lot of American cartoons like The Simpsons or Futurama are animated in Asia, usually Japan or Korea. They might have American animators do the key frames and then pay Asian animators to do the tedious in-between frames, or just send it all to Asia.
This also puts a downward pressure on American wages, with the threat effectively being, “take a pay cut or lose the work entirely.” Seems to be what Hollywood is hoping to do with “AI” also.