America used to have better animation. Now I would give a tip of the hat to Japan, simply because America has largely abandoned high quality traditional cell animation for theatrical releases. That was where American animation really shined for decades. There also used to be a hell of a lot better drawn/animated American tv cartoons.
I'm not a huge fan of the overdone "Anime look", honestly, and thus I seem to be drawn mostly to older 70s and 80s Animes, before many of those tropes had really taken over their industry. Japanese traditional animation is obviously awesome, for the most part, as far as fluidity and just the simple fact that they've never abandoned it for CGI. Studio Ghibili is now what Disney used to be, once upon a time.
I don't dislike CGI animated films. But they're just too many of them now. It saddens and bewilders me that audiences would rather spend the big bucks to go see a CGI cartoon over a cell animation one now. At least in NA. Disney's Frog Princess did well, but outside of that, there hasn't even been many attempts. Guys like Don Bluth have all but quit the business, and every studio interested at all in theatrical animation, is only doing CGI. Hell, it even seems like more and more tv cartoons are popping up CGI.
I think CGI can be fine, and Pixar especially has obviously made some masterpieces. But to me, a bit of a huge animation fan/buff, nothing is ever going to replace the "magic" that classic, traditional hand-drawn 2D animation has.
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