The end of the American animation industry is here: full outsource to China - /co/ (#149042315) [Archived: 944 hours ago]

Anonymous
6/17/2025, 10:26:11 AM No.149042315
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China Secretly Made A New CG Tom & Jerry Feature: โ€˜Tom & Jerry: Forbidden Compassโ€™

>This week in China, a quite mysterious and previously-unannounced cg-animated Tom & Jerry feature is world premiering and it appears to be made primarily for Chinese audiences.

>The film is called Tom & Jerry: Forbidden Compass and it is a co-production between Chinese studios and Warner Bros. in the United States, with a Chinese director, Zhang Gang (co-director, Kuiba 3; animation director, No.7 Cherry Lane).

https://www.cartoonbrew.com/feature-film/china-secretly-made-a-new-cg-tom-jerry-feature-tom-jerry-forbidden-compass-247912.html

Hollywood is now outsourcing the entire filmmaking process to China and making movies for Chinese audiences. Anyone working in the animation industry here in the states should start working on a career change ASAP. It's over.
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Anonymous
6/17/2025, 10:34:45 AM No.149042350
i don't have the article now, but I remember back when Ne Zha 2 was on the news all the time, it inspired more Chinese animation and vfx jobs to open, and more people were becoming students.
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Anonymous
6/17/2025, 10:36:50 AM No.149042358
Who is this
Who is this
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>>149042315 (OP)
If we get cartoons like Nezha without the communist nonsense then I don't mind.
Also they've been making exclusive stuff for China for a long while, I remember when the first Micheal Bay transformers came out they added some ad for some boxed milk, and for Iron Man they changed the story to some random Chinese scientist designing his suit.
Complete outsourcing seems to be the best bet right now due to the state of the industry.
I know that new Swat Kats revival is being animated in India.
>>149042350
I don't blame them I saw Nezha 2 in theaters and it was fantastic, probably the best action in a CGI cartoon I have ever seen.
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Anonymous
6/17/2025, 10:52:34 AM No.149042393
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>>149042315 (OP)
I warned you all /co/, but you doubted me
China is coming for us, while the west is falling
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Anonymous
6/17/2025, 10:56:01 AM No.149042404
>>149042315 (OP)
>Forbidden Compass

Does it point towards Tiananmen Square?
Anonymous
6/17/2025, 11:03:26 AM No.149042432
>>149042393
i think it's pretty undeniable now. remember last week when a bunch of industry people were openly seething because almost every new CN show was outsourced

If I was in the industry I know I'd be looking for an exit strategy. Disney and Pixar can't employ everybody. Dreamworks did mass layoffs last year. Illumination is very small. Netflix has cut back massively on animation content. etc, etc.

It's looking grim
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Anonymous
6/17/2025, 11:04:06 AM No.149042436
>>149042393
the good old chinese furrybait gif!
>zooptopia popular in china
>horse show popular in china
>tom and jerry popular in china
>one of ne zha's main characters is a dragon
>goat show popular in china
>china made the great warrior wall

we might get even more furries out of this
Anonymous
6/17/2025, 11:10:12 AM No.149042449
>>149042393
Where is this from?
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Anonymous
6/17/2025, 11:14:46 AM No.149042461
>>149042449
zzz
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Anonymous
6/17/2025, 11:16:41 AM No.149042470
>>149042449
>>149042461
https://youtu.be/vWIsejSRBqY?si=ZJwV6vKQWojwBmpk

https://youtu.be/a-RO0_vFQwc?si=eZ0WyCFUR4UKJ5BN
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Anonymous
6/17/2025, 11:22:31 AM No.149042483
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>>149042315 (OP)
Indie shall reign superior
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Anonymous
6/17/2025, 11:37:02 AM No.149042512
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>>149042315 (OP)
Why always the ones that have the coolest designs are the Gacha games?

https://tom-and-jerry-chase.fandom.com/wiki/Detective_Jerry
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Anonymous
6/17/2025, 11:41:36 AM No.149042523
>>149042483
only the merchbait shows will get past two episodes...
Anonymous
6/17/2025, 12:14:20 PM No.149042621
I don't know why people are making a big deal and trying to say the west will collapse in 2 weeks
This isn't even new. India made Tom & Jerry exclusive content. Singapore made Tom & Jerry exclusive content. Japan made Tom & Jerry exclusive content. US is still making a full Tom & Jerry film on its own. Outside Tom and Jerry, Mexico made two Top Cat theatrical films.
There is nothing new here that hasn't been done the past decade
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Anonymous
6/17/2025, 12:24:53 PM No.149042655
>>149042470
Thanks
Anonymous
6/17/2025, 12:45:55 PM No.149042717
>>149042621
anons are convinced this is news because they're also convinced california actually makes cartoons when animation production hasn't been done there beyond the very basic setup in many years. the recent addition to the state budget to give local animation companies tax breaks was a response to that.
Anonymous
6/17/2025, 12:52:14 PM No.149042733
>>149042315 (OP)
>Make absolutely nothing competitive from wages to industry
>Gets cucked out of animation by a nation determined to be no.1

yanks getting what they did to themselves.
Anonymous
6/17/2025, 12:54:48 PM No.149042742
>>149042315 (OP)
But does it have red?
Anonymous
6/17/2025, 1:27:02 PM No.149042831
>>149042393
My god, if the CCP get their hands on the West's Suspiciously Wealthy Furries...
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Anonymous
6/17/2025, 1:28:33 PM No.149042838
>>149042315 (OP)
And why not? China is the biggest consumer of movieslop might as well get them to make it.
Anonymous
6/17/2025, 1:54:45 PM No.149042904
>>149042831
Now THAT'S a terrifying thought.
Anonymous
6/17/2025, 2:06:21 PM No.149042948
>>149042432
>>If I was in the industry I know I'd be looking for an exit strategy.
Like what, starting to drive Uber?
Anonymous
6/17/2025, 2:13:59 PM No.149042975
>>149042358
China's not North Korea, filmmakers don't have to obey strict doctrines. But there's a lot of awkward dialogue that doesn't translate well, lot of chest-beating nationalist nonsense and a very stale library of stories that can be adapted
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Anonymous
6/17/2025, 2:15:09 PM No.149042977
>>149042512
>Dude what if Jerry was a Chink fantasy character
Retard
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Anonymous
6/17/2025, 2:16:03 PM No.149042980
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>>149042315 (OP)
Will Toodles Galore be in the movie?
Anonymous
6/17/2025, 3:03:20 PM No.149043137
>>149042315 (OP)
>The chi-coms are making the Tom and Jerry cartoons! It's over for the VVEST.
Kek. Looking forward to their cartoons. I wish our studios still knew how to animate
Anonymous
6/17/2025, 3:04:51 PM No.149043141
>>149042831
>Peter Thiel BTFO'd by the Fifth Furry Column
You love to see it
Anonymous
6/17/2025, 3:11:44 PM No.149043169
>>149042975
This would allow them to make films specifically for the western market in the same way we do for them
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Anonymous
6/17/2025, 3:18:41 PM No.149043178
>>149043169
The domestic market is huge, why the fuck would they want to appeal to the west?
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Anonymous
6/17/2025, 3:22:09 PM No.149043191
>>149043178
Outlet for creating a false opposition, for voicing ideas the CCP gets too uppity about when mentioned on their own soil
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Anonymous
6/17/2025, 3:28:59 PM No.149043225
>>149042358
>without the communist nonsense
There's no communism in NeZha you retard, as the time period it's set in predates the concept.
Anonymous
6/17/2025, 3:29:37 PM No.149043227
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>>149042315 (OP)
Remember to be extra mean to any ex-animators you see working retail.
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Anonymous
6/17/2025, 3:33:33 PM No.149043245
>>149042393
I find it funny how this game is full of so much bait.
Furrybait, incestbait, lolibait, yuribait, just hilarious.
Anonymous
6/17/2025, 3:48:58 PM No.149043323
>>149042358
>first Micheal Bay transformers came out they added some ad for some boxed milk
It wasn't the first one I think. It was the one with Mark Wahlberg and Stanley Tucci.
Tucci himself participates in the product placement.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B8zg8RhDzEc
Anonymous
6/17/2025, 4:05:55 PM No.149043442
>>149042977
Yes, yes (you) are.
Anonymous
6/17/2025, 4:24:22 PM No.149043549
>>149042315 (OP)
And the previous 2-D instalments were animated ...where?
Anonymous
6/17/2025, 4:26:02 PM No.149043558
>>149042315 (OP)
They had to outsource since noone at home besides Doug Walker still gives a fuck about Tom & Jerry.
Anonymous
6/17/2025, 4:44:43 PM No.149043686
>>149043227
THIS lmfao fuck those retardshahahaha yes i want fries and i'll stick them in your assslollllllllll
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Anonymous
6/17/2025, 4:49:47 PM No.149043721
>>149042393
>>149042432
Where's Donald Trump keeping job in the US when we need him?
Anonymous
6/17/2025, 4:53:21 PM No.149043734
>>149042315 (OP)
>one weird outlier is proof that animators should quit
Nice try Zaslav drone
Anonymous
6/17/2025, 6:13:20 PM No.149044361
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>>149042315 (OP)
No, it's the opposite, it means there will be more labor for less costs, you know, capitalism. Western animation is saved
Anonymous
6/17/2025, 6:18:45 PM No.149044399
>>149042315 (OP)
USA is busy with its second civil war, the cartoon industry had to stop all activity.
Anonymous
6/17/2025, 6:21:35 PM No.149044422
>>149043227
>>149043686
Why do you hate them?
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Anonymous
6/17/2025, 6:24:13 PM No.149044443
>>149044422
Why not fuck you MAGA forever
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6/17/2025, 6:25:40 PM No.149044461
>>149044422
They were distracted by their dream
career fantasies until the field started to fall apart then they & their fans came to harass me for actually knowing how to make cartoons but I reject working there.
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Anonymous
6/17/2025, 6:50:59 PM No.149044687
>>149043191
Chinks don't care about shit like "individual opinion", "free speech" and "artistic creativity". Giving an outlet is pointless when it's so easy to suppress, deny, silence or distract people
Anonymous
6/17/2025, 6:53:47 PM No.149044709
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>>149042977
The fantasy designs of these IPs are usually incredibly mediocre, empty and boring.

This ones actually looks cool.
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Anonymous
6/17/2025, 7:41:52 PM No.149045142
>>149044443
Huh
>>149044461
Uhh if they will be replaced then so are you, you special snowflake
Anonymous
6/17/2025, 7:46:40 PM No.149045184
>>149042315 (OP)
This animated feature looks very nice and I hope the cartoons and comics board on 4channel.org will agree with me and join in on the discussion of said feature.
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6/17/2025, 7:58:50 PM No.149045300
>>149042393
>while the west
>west
Anonymous
6/17/2025, 8:07:38 PM No.149045379
>>149044443
more like miga
Anonymous
6/17/2025, 8:09:05 PM No.149045398
>>149044709
It's like giving fucking Fred Flintstone a Ching Chong makeover, it's the opposite to what makes the character appealing