Why hasn't Germany produced any internationally acclaimed animation? Even the French and British have had some hits over here in the past 50 years. Hell, even Iceland pulled it off if you count puppeteering (LazyTown).
Werner Beinhart, Das kleine Arschloch, and Bernd das Brot are not well known outside of the Germanosphere. And that's all I could even think of for German (or Austrian or Swiss German) animation/puppetry.
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>>25499182
European animation doesn't get much attention over here. It's either American, Canadian, or Japanese. European animation actually used to be ever so slightly more common 25+ years ago, but it's basically disappeared.
>>25499242
How about Jim Knopf? A French-German coproduction. Most likely our cheap French slaves did the actual animation work while we just did story and synchronization.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0251514/
In reality it was mostly France and Russia the whole time. Now animation is in a dark age anyway. Only cheap bullshit made by slaves who move 3D assets around prevails.
Speaking of European animation, does anyone know where to find the entire English dub of Spaced Out? It's originally a French cartoon and it's drawn in a style similar to Ed Edd n Eddy.
It only aired on Cartoon Network very briefly in the states, but aired on Canada's CN for longer.
Only a handful of the English dubbed episodes are available, and there are concerns that the English dub has become part of lost media.
Check it out, it's a damn shame it didn't get more popularity:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9dvlw5xn640
>>25499285
We had Heidi and Vicky the Viking commissioned in Japan back in the 70s.
In fact American cartoons with characters that aren't made of abstract geometric shapes are made in Asia too.
The Boondocks for example were made in South Korea.
>>25499320
The creator of the original comic strip is an American nigga, but it has an anime style so when you need a team to make a cartoon of course you go to Asia. Avatar The Last Airbender also outsourced to Korea for some animation
>>25499320>In fact American cartoons with characters that aren't made of abstract geometric shapes are made in Asia too.
That only became a thing in the 80s. Even in the 70s, US animation was made domestically and the shapes were normal. And even in the 80s/90s, many stills were made in the US and Japs/Koreans filled in the rest.
>>25499320>The creator of the original comic strip is an American nigga,
Literally all media in existence is based on German books.
>>25499341
Some episodes of Tom and Jerry have even been produced in Czechoslovakia.