The difficulty in trying to deploy a clear message about animation is real. Usually, in this country, when we talk about animation... we only refer to animators. Probably this is the problem. If we just equate animation to animators, we are in fact limiting the animation process and putting it inside a box.
I am not underestimating the contributions of animators in animation but to over-estimate such contributions often lead to devastating myths that often turn into nightmares.
Animation is made up of animation professionals that work together in order to come up with an animation material that is able to engage the audience. Movements without sound, color, tecture, artistic layers, structural direction, dialogue , environment and ambiance are useless.
This is proven, again and again, when group of animators do not acknowledge the roles that non-animators in the animation biz play. As a result, animator driven projects are often marginalized or worst... transformed into white elephants.
I see this as a consequence of the outsourcing sensibility wherein the animation process is deliberately chopped down into several pieces without any respect to the integrity of the creative process and teamwork. As a result, animators are given this false notion that animation is their inherent monopoly.
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