Canadian Animation is Way Better Than You Think

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Video by David Oneacre

Music by Jayfoo

2D Art and Character Design by Sproutlines

0:00 Intro
2:59 The Big Snit
4:56 Sponsor
6:25 Why Canada Funds So Many Short Films
7:46 Madame Tutli-Putli
9:54 The Importance of Public Funding
11:31 Other NFB Films
12:38 Watch More Short Films

[markeyiszra]

Let's never forget that Canada Animation were dominated during our childhood. DKC animated series, Jane and The Dragon, 6Teen, TDI, Miss Spider, Rolie Polie Olie, Tintin, Ruby Gloom, Wayside, Franklin, Max & Ruby those show were memorable. Which is really sad that nowadays most people remember from Canada animated series is the non stop Fart jokes.

[kiricappuchin]

The NFB is amazing. I remember watching a few short films for various classes throughout school—my favourite being Log Driver's Waltz lol.
It's cool to see Canadian animation getting more love!!

[sniffitysnorty]

As a Canadian studying animation, I'd like to say that the NFB is a very important part of both our study and (in my opinion) our culture as Canadians.
I've both lived in Canada my whole life and loved animation since I was a kid but I didn't know about the NFB's existence prior to going to art school and i wish i did because there is so much cool stuff to watch, I remember in my second year of uni our professor would show us stuff from the NFB for our lessons like "Neighbours" and explain some principles, techniques, and types of animation using the videos as reference before giving us our assignments lol.

Also love your stuff Doodley, you're such an inspiration :]

[individualvideos]

This video was such a nostalgia trip. Growing up, my dad would take me from time to time to the NFB/ONF location in Montréal. We’d sit down in individual seats and watch a bunch of random short films that were on offer. I remember binging a lot of the animated ones such as Ryan (which traumatized me as a kid) and the cat is back. This video brought me back, and definitely makes me appreciate my country a lot more. Thanks ❤️

[HaHAjax]

More people needs to know about this! It's insane how little this is documented, and I'm glad you could help tell people about this. I'm american and I didn't know about this, but thank you!

[forrestdeslippe]

Thank You! I'm Canadian and I've been showing my friends these films for years. Its very nice that more people will know about them. Also, Fugget About it's youtube channel has over 1 million subs. Oh Canada!

[rjfinbow]

When I was a little kid, I borrowed an NFB DVD collection of award-winning animated shorts from my local library. Madame Tutli-Putli was on it, and it was the scariest thing I had ever seen. No movie traumatised me and seered itself into my brain as much as that one. I see it completely differently as an adult.

[AnthonyMiele]

Canadian studio Hinterland Studios, Developer of The Long Dark, made one of my favorite games of all time. It's such a beautiful game.

[DocumentarianWeady]

As a Canadian, I appreciate you talking about the rich history of our animation. I tend to see that a lot of what make's Canada, Canada, isn't really talked about a lot. People tend to focus on its compairason to our larger and southern neighbour, so I'm glad to see something like this for once.

Thank You.

[PacDino]

Great video, I'd love to see someone else do this video but with Irish animation. There's many examples of Irish animated movies, shorts and shows that deserve so much attention.

[Nevakanezah_]

The Donkey Kong Country TV series was also made in canada.

[Scullgaming]

as a canadian animator i feel honoured 🇨🇦

[LeoZhao]

How dare you, Johnny Test is peak animation. It showed me that the only aound design necessary was a whip crack, really brought me back to the late 1800's.

[spinjitzumasterfalcon]

One of my favorite shows: Ninjago, is animated by WildBrain and it’s insanely incredible with how the animators animate the action in that show

[Parisella]

Fellow Canadian animator, here. I gotta say, I was born in that perfect pocket where Teletoon's Frame by Frame (later renamed 'Animania') had provided my 8 year old brain with a steady stream of strange, Canadian animated shorts. I'll never forget how much the weirdness inherent in those inspired me. I still rewatch The Big Snit to this day! It actually brings a tear to my eye.

[redshyguynumber]

WALL OF TEXT WARNING

Canadian, I am very glad and prideful of my nation's commitment to the arts and while I did have a general idea that the government funded domestic films prior to this video, I had no idea it was to this extent and I will definitely be checking out the extended catalog.

About Canadian animation being cheaper to produce, don't get me wrong, it's great that it is easier for Artists to be Artists here but I do have concerns since Hollywood has heavily begun out sourcing labour to areas like Vancouver. This type of practice predatory, it isn't for the talent or give people jobs in Canada but rather it's for financial greed as Canadian animation is taxed less and Canadian animators aren't unionized to the extend American animators. I worry that the animators in Vancouver take this work because it's never been available to them but are also still underpaid by Corporate in Hollywood since they know these animators here will take less for the same reason. It's taking advantage of people willing to take less.

Not to mention, outsourcing labour to Canada and other countries means American animators are being shafted by Hollywood which we see in the massive lay-offs waves. Thousands of US animators are out of a job simply because they demand better treatment and pay which foreign markets (worse of these in Japan and Korea) are devoid of and therefor cheaper.

Ever wonder why the rise of Indie Animation happened at the same time as the Hollywood lay-offs? That's all the talent which was let go, looking for work and finding it with online independent studios who create stuff here on YouTube.

Animation has it pretty rough right now with Hollywood becoming increasingly corporatized and profit driven as well as the invasion of "AI" (I throw up a little typing that). They don't care for the well-being of animators or even the final product as long as it makes them money. The *entirely finished* animated movies which are being shelved are for tax ride-offs, that's now how far corporations are willing to go for the bottom-line.

I'm sorry I've brought the mood with my depressing tangent but I'll say this, If you love animation, continue to love animation, even more so now. Love not just the things that you watch but the people behind them, support the Artists because they make the things you love, not the corporations.

[odurohey]

I'll be honest, as a UK native, I grew up with some of these more than the popular American cartoons. Particularly Nelvana.

[OminousArtist]

I'm not surprised at Canada being big in animation, my favorite shows, TF:Prime, MLP:FiM, SlugTerra, MaxSteel and Total Drama were all animated in Canadian studios.

I'm just surprised at how creative Canadian animation side is. Thanks for the history lesson.

[Blaster-the-holobot]

Ngl, as a quebecois myself, I didn't really know any of that. For a long time, I watched animated tv shows thinking it was all from outside of canada, and when I learned they weren't I was always surprised. ^^'

[Makinri]

Animation is slowly becoming one of Canada's biggest exports **Whipcrack**