In japanese anime nowadays there are alot of smart use of CGI to cut down on production cost. However most big CGI animated movies always cost 7-8 times higher than traditional hand drawn animated movies. Weathering with you and your name budget was about 9-11 million, while boss baby, frozen, kungfu panda was upward of 125-150 million.
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One answer that I don’t see people mention: cheap TV shows use off-the-shelf software, whatever its limitations. Big CGI animated movies hire big teams of programmers and have them invent new software for each movie, to make new effects possible.
For example, Monsters Inc wanted big furry monsters. There wasn’t existing software to animate a monster with that much fur, so they invented it. Years later that same software trickles down to low-budget CGI TV shows. But low-budget shows never invent new effects, they just use what already exists.
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