>>150051041
a standard hand-drawn film, adjusted for inflation, was typically much less expensive to make than your average 3D film, especially ones from larger studios like Pixar and Dreamworks. It has less to do with money and more to do with talent. Hand-drawn animation takes an immense amount of time and training to learn, and setting up all your elements convincingly to make a full "space" takes a lot of brainpower- geometry, lighting, etc. 3D animation is a lot easier to offload to cheap and less skilled laborers.