why CGI animation cost less to make than hand drawn animation but big CGI animated movies budget is always many times higher ?

Question

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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Answer 1

The cost of CG animated series also goes down in the long run depending on how much they can reuse the character and background models as the show goes on