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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 [[Di C]] in order to fund ''[[Ulysses 31]]''. The show worked, and it served as a precursor which eventually led to the start of this age of animation (TMS did try to get out of [[The Dark Age of Animation]] as early as 1971 with ''[[Lupin III]]'' series 1 but nothing worked until ''[[Ulysses 31]]''. ''[[Lupin III]]'' series 2 did do well, but it did not bring the industry out of the dark ages). TMS continued working with Dic until 1984 when two of their staff members, Tetsuo Katayama and Shigeru Akagawa, left TMS to found [[KKC and D Asia]]; but even after that TMS was still making the industry better, with their own productions like ''[[The Blinkins]]'', ''[[Mighty Orbots]]'', and ''[[Galaxy High]]'', and with shows like ''[[The Wuzzles]]'', ''[[Adventures of the Gummi Bears]]'' and ''[[DuckTales]]'' which were done in collaboration with [[Disney]], ultimately bringing quality animation to television for the first time ever. TMS were practically the sole producer of quality animation (and to a lesser extent, [[Studio Ghibli]]) until a man named [[John Kricfalusi]] teamed up with Ralph Bakshi to produce ''[[Mighty Mouse the New Adventures]]'', a show that helped bring back old school, insane "cartoony cartoons". This team up did not last long as [[John K]] went solo to do ''[[The Ren and Stimpy Show]]'' for Nickelodeon. TMS stopped working with Disney after Motoyoshi Tokunaga founded [[Walt Disney Animation Japan]], and then came TMS's golden age, when the studio was working with [[Warner Bros]] to produce shows like ''[[Tiny Toon Adventures]]'', ''[[Batman: The Animated Series|Batman the Animated Series]]'' and ''[[Animaniacs]]''. TMS's last major production in this era was ''[[Batman Beyond: Return of the Joker]]''.
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
The Disney animation unit was not shuttered after all after the failure of ''[[The Black Cauldron]]'', mainly due to the modest success of ''[[The Great Mouse Detective]]''. After the threat from Bluth and Amblin though, Disney frantically stepped up its game and rallied with ''[[Oliver and Company]]'', which was another modest success. Their newly-established, adult-oriented Touchstone Pictures label co-produced -- with Amblin Entertainment, as it happened -- ''[[Who Framed Roger Rabbit?|Who Framed Roger Rabbit]]'', a live-action/animated fantasy that also served as a [[Massive Multiplayer Crossover]] of Golden Age characters and was the box-office sensation of 1988. And starting with ''[[The Wuzzles]]'' but busting loose with ''[[DuckTales]]'', Disney launched many successful animated TV shows (first, as mentioned, alongside TMS). This successfully raised the stakes for the format with dramatically improved production standards in both animation and writing, eventually prompting Disney's rivals to improve their own to compete, to the medium's benefit.
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* ''[[Dinosaucers]]''
* [[Disney Animated Canon]]
** ''[[The Fox and the Hound (film)]]''
** ''[[The Black Cauldron]]''
** ''[[The Great Mouse Detective]]'': This film's moderate success was what convinced Disney to keep doing animated films, as the company was in dire straits in the early '80s after a string of box office bombs.
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* ''[[Heckle and Jeckle]]'': In ''The New Adventures of [[Mighty Mouse]] and Heckle & Jeckle''.
* ''[[He-Man and the Masters of the Universe|He Man and The Masters of The Universe]]''
* ''[[Hey Arnold!]]''
* ''[[Histeria!]]''
* ''[[Inhumanoids]]''
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* David Kirschner, who was largely responsible for ''[[An American Tail]]'' and more obscure animated movies during [[The Nineties]] such as ''[[Once Upon a Forest]]'', ''[[The Pagemaster]]'' and ''[[Cats Don't Dance]]''.
* [[Seth MacFarlane]], who got his start writing, storyboarding, and voice acting in this era; and whose [[What a Cartoon Show|World Premiere Toon]] eventually evolved into ''[[Family Guy]]'' (which of course premiered at the end of the Renaissance).
* Craig Bartlett, an animator for ''[[Pee-wee's Playhouse]]'', writer for ''[[Rugrats]]'', and creator of ''[[Hey Arnold!]]''. Also [[Matt Groening]]'s brother-in-law, interestingly enough.
* Jim Jinkins, creator of ''[[Doug]]'' and ''[[PB and J Otter]]'', the latter of which aired at the end of the Renaissance.
* Paul Germain and Joe Ansolabehere, who wrote for ''[[Rugrats]]'' (and the former co-created it) and ''[[Hey Arnold!]]'', and the creators of ''[[Recess]]''
* Fred Seibert, the producer behind [[What a Cartoon Show|World Premiere Toons]] and ''[[Oh Yeah Cartoons]]'', making him indirectly responsible for their various spin-offs.
* Yutaka Fujioka: Founder of [[T Ms]] and starter of this age of animation.
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* [[Too Good to Last]]: Even more so than the Golden Age.
** Can also apply to [[Warner Bros]]. and [[DreamWorks]] 2-D animated films.
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