>>149541630This, all major animation industries outside of the US gain prominence thanks to some form of governmental support.
Canada gives out grants to cultural productions from tv to video games as long as the majority of the staff are Canadian.
Brittan historically and to this day has most of its major channels supported by the government and so any British animation on them was part of that control.
Japan had its animators cut their teeth on doing the grunt work for American projects and therefore had a robust local animation scene, but ti was kicked into overdrive when the government realized that the animation was a key cultural export and so propped up the industry.
Now the Aussies film grant org Screen Australia following its 2018 reorientation has finally started bearing fruit.
