![]() ![]() “The creator is only as good as their team. As much as they are both mourning their show’s cancellation, both Hasrajani and Goldman were quick to point out that it’s not just their artistic vision that’s been affected by the Netflix cancellations, but the lives and livelihoods of the cast and crew they hired. Boons and Curses would have been a celebration of Hasrajani’s Indian American heritage. Jaydeep Hasrajani and Jake Goldman are both veterans in the animation industry who have previously worked on shows like Cartoon Network’s Powerpuff Girls and The Fungies on HBO Max. One of them, Boons and Curses, had been celebrating finishing their first episode when the creators got the news. In May of this year, Netflix pulled the plug on 11 animated shows. They appeared to be investing in animation, and were actively greenlighting new projects, up until the moment they weren’t. “It's just sort of depressing, you know? Because it seems like this is going to be a bigger downturn than we've seen in a while.”įor a long time, Netflix was considered among animation workers as a kind of safe haven. “I'm kind of shocked by what's going on at Warner Brothers Discovery, just because it's like, now it's even a bigger mess, and now the stock’s down,” he continued. To this source, it isn’t hugely surprising that animation is on the chopping block as companies like Netflix and Warner Brother’s Discovery try to navigate an economic downturn. ![]() They bought, like, a crazy amount, 300 or 400 hours worth of programming.” “It's been going up, since that big deal that Netflix made with DreamWorks, seven or eight years ago. “We've been riding a wave of the last sort of boom bust cycle,” he said. In the time that he’s been in the industry, he’s witnessed boom cycles due to new players entering the market, like Fox Kids and Nickelodeon, only for the new enthusiasm for animation to suddenly dry up. He requested to remain anonymous due to concerns about his career. “Animation is particularly prone to these, you know, boom, and bust cycles,” a source with twenty years of experience told IGN. They said that when things get hard economically, often workers in animation are the first to be let go. Even as young adult and adult animation has become more popular and more acclaimed, these workers say that they’re almost always the least valued workers in the entertainment industry. ![]() For a long time, it was seen as “children’s entertainment,” and somehow a lesser art because of it. ![]() Some of the workers who spoke to IGN said that from their perspective, the animation industry has always been undervalued in the entertainment industry. 37 animated shows were canceled, and some were outright removed from the streaming platform HBO Max, making them difficult or impossible to watch. Not to be outdone, in August, Warner Brothers Discovery arguably went even farther. In May, Netflix canceled 11 of its animated shows, some of which had not yet been aired. To them, they underline a general lack of respect for workers in animation, and growing concerns that streaming services aren’t a sustainable business model for the entertainment industry. There’s no need to panic that Cartoon Network is gone and that animation in America is dead, but workers in animation are concerned by these industry moves. Just want to thank the crews of both shows for their incredible contributions - amazing talent that I encourage you to hire as they roll off.- Matt Burnett. On October 7th, Matt Burnett, co-creator of Craig of the Creek, tweeted that workers from Craig of the Creek and upcoming spin off Jessica’s Little Big World would be laid off.īoth Craig of the Creek and it’s spinoff Jessica’s Big Little World had their episode orders cut in half today. ![]()
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