The Renaissance Age of Animation: Difference between revisions

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 CDiC]] 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]]'' and ''[[Animaniacs]]''. TMS's last major production in this era was ''[[Batman Beyond: Return of the Joker]]''.