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[[File:Renaissance_6935_6462.jpg|frame|A sampling of influential animation from this era.<ref>In order: Fievel from ''[[An American Tail]]'', Ariel from ''[[The Little Mermaid]]'', Butthead and Beavis from--take a guess--''[[Beavis and Butthead]]'', Buster Bunny and Babs Bunny (no relation) from ''[[Tiny Toon Adventures]]'', Unit 01 from ''[[Neon Genesis Evangelion]]'', and Buzz and Woody from ''[[Toy Story (franchise)|Toy Story]]''.</ref>]]
The return of animation to a point of artistic respect. At first [[The Dark Age of Animation]] persisted -- [[Limited Animation]] was still the rule on television. The [[Disney Animated Canon]] came close to ending for good when ''[[The Black Cauldron]]'', intended to be the stunning debut of a new generation of animators, didn't impress just-arrived company executives Michael Eisner and Jeffrey Katzenberg; they recut it and it proceeded to tank at the box-office. [[Merchandise-Driven]] shows/specials such as ''[[He-Man and the Masters of the Universe]]'', ''[[Strawberry Shortcake]]'', ''[[Care Bears]]'', and ''[[The Transformers (animation)|The Transformers]]'' ruled 80s television animation and had parents' groups up in arms about children watching glorified toy commercials (commercials that were extremely split between gender lines at that).
Fortunately, things got better.
As early as 1980 a Japanese Animation studio called Tokyo Movie Shinsha (Presently [[TMS Entertainment]]) sowed the first seeds that would eventually lead to the full-blown renaissance of animation when they teamed up with French company [[
Outside of TMS, Disney defector [[Don Bluth]] started making movies with 1982's ''[[The Secret of NIMH]]'', pushing for a return to the rich classical style of [[The Golden Age of Animation]]; while it was not a blockbuster, it quickly became a [[Cult Classic]]. It attracted the attention of no less than [[Steven Spielberg]], which led to Bluth's directing the successful ''[[An American Tail]]'' and ''[[The Land Before Time]]'' for Amblin Entertainment. Don Bluth would both rise to prominence and [[Fallen Creator|fall]] during this period, but his collaboration with Steven Spielberg proved to be the first real challenge Disney had ever faced in the animated film department, at least since the [[Max and Dave Fleischer|Fleischers]] were in business.
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For this era's successor, see [[The Millennium Age of Animation]].
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