Dreamworks Animation/Awesome

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  • For Dreamworks Animation for what it did for the state of feature animation in North America. Before that company, the state of the field was Walt Disney Pictures, and a bunch of little leaguers. Sure, there were occasional winners over the decades like Yellow Submarine and An American Tail, but otherwise all efforts failed like the Fleischer Studios' doomed efforts in the 1940s, hopelessly trying to open the field for others to play. All that changed with Dreamworks in the 2000s, first with Aardman Animations with Chicken Run and then DA's own artists with Shrek, led by Jeffery Katzenberg who knew how to beat Disney at their own game (albeit because he played for Disney in the first place). Today, the door has been blow open with rival companies winning a piece of the pie with big hits of their own and we have a golden age of feature animation as a result where the public is eventually realizing that not All Animation Is Disney.