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Independent animation is a term used to describe animation short cartoons and feature films produced outside the professional Hollywood animation industry.
Because animation is very time-consuming and expensive to produce, the vast majority of animated productions are made by professional studios. When the Hollywood animation industry entered a decline during the 1960s (see Hollywood Animation: The TV Era), a small but steady number of independent animation producers kept the art of animation alive. They produced a number of experimental films that pushed the boundaries of the medium, experimenting in ways that
Hanna-Barbera and The Walt Disney Company didn't dare to consider. A number of independent animation producers went on to produce mainstream animation, and they became successful in their own right.
Many independent animation short films are largely unknown; they are rarely seen outside of independent "art house" movie theaters. Collections of independent films have been gathered for theatrical viewing, and video release, under such titles as the International Tournee of Animation (which existed between about 1966 and the late 1990s) and Spike and Mike's
Classic Festival of Animation (1977 to 1990) and
Spike and Mike's Sick and Twisted Festival of Animation since 1990.
The rise of the Internet in the
1990s and
2000s saw an exponential increase in the production of independent animation.
Personal computer power increased to the point where it was possible for a single person to produce an animated cartoon on a home computer, using software such as
Macromedia Flash or
Autodesk, and distribute these short films over the
World Wide Web. Independently produced Internet cartoons flourished as the popularity of the Web grew, and a number of strange, often hilarious short cartoons were produced for the Web.
In the late 1990s, an independent animated short film called
The Spirit of Christmas was produced for under $2,000 by two artists, Matt Stone and Trey Parker. This film was widely distributed on the Internet as a pirated cartoon, and its phenomenal popularity gave rise to the popular TV
animated series South Park.
1960s
1970s
1980s
1990s
2000s
Independent animation is a term used to describe animation short cartoons and feature films produced outside the professional
Hollywood animation industry.
Because animation is very time-consuming and expensive to produce, the vast majority of animated productions are made by professional studios. When the Hollywood animation industry entered a decline during the
1960s (see
Hollywood Animation: The TV Era), a small but steady number of independent animation producers kept the art of animation alive. They produced a number of experimental films that pushed the boundaries of the medium, experimenting in ways that
Hanna-Barbera and
The Walt Disney Company didn't dare to consider. A number of independent animation producers went on to produce mainstream animation, and they became successful in their own right.
Many independent animation short films are largely unknown; they are rarely seen outside of independent "art house" movie theaters. Collections of independent films have been gathered for theatrical viewing, and video release, under such titles as the
International Tournee of Animation (which existed between about 1966 and the late 1990s) and Spike and Mike's
Classic Festival of Animation (1977 to 1990) and
Spike and Mike's Sick and Twisted Festival of Animation since 1990.
The rise of the Internet in the 1990s and
2000s saw an exponential increase in the production of independent animation.
Personal computer power increased to the point where it was possible for a single person to produce an animated cartoon on a home computer, using software such as
Macromedia Flash or
Autodesk, and distribute these short films over the
World Wide Web. Independently produced Internet cartoons flourished as the popularity of the Web grew, and a number of strange, often hilarious short cartoons were produced for the Web.
In the late 1990s, an independent animated short film called
The Spirit of Christmas was produced for under $2,000 by two artists,
Matt Stone and
Trey Parker. This film was widely distributed on the Internet as a pirated cartoon, and its phenomenal popularity gave rise to the popular TV animated series
South Park.
1960s
- The Critic (1963) by Mel Brooks
- Bambi Meets Godzilla by Marv Newland
1970s
1980s
1990s
2000s
