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Waking up early on a Saturday morning just so we could catch our favorite cartoon tune in on time had its own charm back in ...

The $420 billion global animation industry (movies, television cartoons, games, anime) has long been dominated by computer-generated imagery; Walt Disney Animation hasn’t released a hand-drawn film ...