>>717067931
Institutional knowledge on 2d largely went away in big animation studios with the proliferation of 3d and the old guard dying of old. Its also way more expensive in the US, Anime gets away with it cause they cheap out like crazy and they're closer to their inbetween studios. The demand for it in the US is also very low for non-childrens stuff, so even if a studio wanted to and could convince someone to finance it, they'd be met by a flop (and why would you spend an assload of money on childrens stuff when they're fine with 3d)