Canadian Animation is Way Better Than You Think

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this video got the maple syrup in my blood pumping

Native Leaf Man here, please allow me to speak on behalf of all Canadians watching: "WOOOOO, OUR COUNTRY WAS MENTIONED! LET"S GOOOOOOOO!!!!"

canadian animator here, thank you for speaking about our vibrant culture in animation. canadian animation is great

Hilda (the phenomenally good cartoon aired on Netflix) was one of the huge wins for Canadian art being properly appreciated on a wider scale. Also, it isn't even just animation, Canada facilitates the filming of hundreds of American movies and TV shows every year. Any time you see a show that's not a documentary with scenes set in a "lush, unspoiled wilderness", it was probably filmed somewhere around Vancouver, like Whistler or Squamish.

Shoutout to Canada for being where I grew up. Treehouse is the GOAT

Fun fact: The creator (and animator) of Pizza Tower is Canadian.

Great video, Doodley! Thanks for sharing your appreciation for our animated content and showcasing the importance of publicly funded art. 🥰 We hope your fans and followers enjoy our films and discover new gems in our ever-growing collection!

I had a mini heart attack when doodley said “if you’re looking at this footage and thinking ‘wow, those eyes look real’. That’s because they are.” Because I thought that meant they put actual human eyes into a puppet. But actually, amazing video, I should really check out these Canadian short films!

As an Australian, I remember basically all good tv shows were made in Canada. Detentionaire was one of their best.

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.

Omg THANK you for this. I'm from the US but I work as an animator in Canada (both film and tv), and it can be so frustrating hearing people talk smack about Canadian animation, then immediately talk about their favorite movies or shows... that they have no idea are animated in Canada. The reality is even if a Candian studio does 95%+ of the animation on a tv show or movie, animation is still credited to the LA studio (which sometimes only has an artist or two in each department to make last minutes changes). I've even worked on projects with no LA artists at all that are still attributed to the US company. I'd also push back on the idea that Canadian animation is taking over: we've been here pretty much the whole time. I think the difference is that the rise in streaming has allowed for longer end credits, which in turn has allowed for more studios to get proper credit for their work! I can't tell you how many beautiful shows and films are credited to Netflix, Hulu, Amazon, Disney, etc. when they're animated almost entirely in Canada. It's not just short films, either. The Monkey King (2023) is one of my favorite animated movies in the last 10 years. It's listed as "Netflix Animation", but if you dig you'll find the bulk of the work was completed in Canada (mostly Reel FX). Vancouver's Sony Imageworks is responsible for stunning animation in Spiderverse, and Wind Sun Sky Entertainment is behind the breakout Amazon hit Invincible, but no one thinks of these as "Canadian animation". Even for older tv franchises like MLP, Rick and Morty, Animaniacs, Peanuts, etc. I've found most American fans have no clue that these are largely Canadian work. Canada has produced award-winning animation for decades now; it's just that credit is finally starting to be searchable. I also love that you showed the short Bao as one of your examples: Bao was made by Domee Shi, who grew up and went to art school in Canada. She went on to write and direct Turning Red for Disney, a fantastic film based on her childhood up north. Turning Red is "American animation" even though it's the story of Canadian protagonists, set in Canada, written and directed by a Canadian citizen who studied animation in Canada. Doesn't that seem a little odd? I feel that modern animation productions can't really be defined as the work of a single country. I think there's a subconscious understanding for some (not all) LA animators that anything made or worked on outside LA originally belonged to LA, and thus the work is viewed as being 'taken over'. I think we as an industry need to analyze that mindset with a more critical eye, especially given how few animators are born where they work. Thanks again for covering this! If you ever want to talk about the topic more I'd love to chat.

As a Canadian, I did not know Johnny test was Canadian

I think both Canada and France have created some of the best animation of all time.

As a Canadian, I am so happy to see at least someone with a bigger social presence talk about the positive that our animation has done instead of the negative. It is really nice to see more ppl know about our gouvermnet funded shorts and know about it. Side note: I loved Johnny Test and find it nostalgic. I will die on this hill. I know it's bad but I love it.

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 :]

Fun fact. The Vancouver film school is directly across the street from the national film board of Canada.

It was a Canadian studio, Mainframe Entertainment, that created the first fully CGI TV series. "Reboot". Mainframe Enterainment would later go on to work on Beast Wars.

12:20 seeing the cat came back was such a sudden feeling of nostalgia one of my favourite animations when I was little

Interestingly enough, a lot of the shows I grew up with on Australian tv were Canadian animated shows. I never understood why they the Canadian government symbol at the end till now.