The Television Era

In 1980's The Golden Age of Animation came to a close as most of the periods veterans retired or died. The new generation of animators were innovative, and ready to take part in a new era of animation. So television started drawing people away from the big screen, which resulted in a big decline for Walt Disney, however it gave way to new companies such as Hanna-Barbera. Television animation started tackling more topical subjects even though most of it was labeled as "children's entertainment". The television era became very demanding for the animation industry, so more low-budget and quickly made cartoons were produced, this meant a significant decrease in quality and detail. During this era, emerged a lot of cartoon series such as The Jetsons, Scoobu-Doo, The Smurfs.