2006: The Year of Animated Glut

Animated films went through a boom in the mid 00's. While previously, one or two, or even no animated films would be released per year, in the 00's almost every year at least 10 animated films invaded cinemas. The most prolific year, was 2006. With twenty animated films released. Twenty. This number does not include straight to DVD films, or films not released in the US. Only for movies released in theaters in the US in 2006. For comparison, here are the surrounding years.

2005-11
2006-20
2007-14
2008-18
2009-15

Furthermoe, all but five of these films entered wide release, leading to an extremely saturated market. Comparitively, 2009 had 12 wide release animated films. For posterity's sake, here are the animated films of 2006, from lowest grossing to highest grossing.

1. Live Freaky Die Freaky (Stop-Motion)-$11,290-1/27-Wellspring
2. Renaissance-$70,644-9/22-Miramax
3. Captain Sabretooth-$20,256-9/22-Indic.
4. Romeo & Juliet: Sealed with a Kiss-$463,002-10/26-Indic.
5. A Scanner Darkly (Rotoscope)-$5,501,616-7/7-WIP
6. Doogal (CG)-$7,417,319-2/24-Weinstein Company
7. Everyone's Hero (CG)-$14,523,101-9/15-Fox
8. Arthur and the Invisibles (CG/Live Action)-$15,132,763-12/29-MGM
9. The Ant Bully (CG)-$28,142,535-7/28-WB
10. The Wild (CG)-$37,384,046-4/14-BV (Disney)
11. Hoodwinked (CG)-$51,386,611-1/13-Weinstein Company
12. Curious George-$58,360,760-2/10-Universal
13. Flushed Away (Claymation)-$64,665,672-11/3-Dreamworks (Ardman)
14. Barnyard (CG)-$72,637,803-8/4-Paramount
15. Monster House (MC CG)-$73,661,010-7/21-Sony
16. Open Season (CG)-$85,105,259-9/29-Sony
17. Over the Hedge (CG)-$155,019,340-5/19-Dreamworks
18. Ice Age 2 (CG)-$195,330,621-3/27-Fox
19. Happy Feat (CG)-$198,000,317-11/17-WB
20. Cars (CG)-$244,082,982-6/9-Pixar

MS Paint Movies

MS Paint is a program used all too often to create stuff no one wants to see, ever wanted to see or will ever want to see. These "animations" people make are usually about 7 frames per minute, and they are terrible. Most of them. A few months ago I discovered a YouTube user: JordAnime. He took it to a whole new level, creating smooth and sharp animations that are literally jaw-dropping, and he does them in MS paint. Inspired, I created a couple of animations, and darn, it is a lot of work!

Check him out here: http://www.youtube.com/user/Jordanime
And check out my vids here: Blink Animation and 99 frames in 8 seconds