I am on YouTube a lot, watching all kinds of indie cartoons and getting interested in new ones that come up. I also watch a lot of video essays about how Disney has really gone downhill in the quality of their animated films. If you have no idea what I’m talking about. Let me explain a little more. Indie means independent, which means indie creators get to do whatever they want with their show without big corporations tearing it up to fit their ideas and requirements.
There are always some exceptions, like “K-Pop Demon Hunters”. But most of the time, it’s movies that don’t do as well as producers want them to. Take, for example, the live-action version of “Snow White”; it was so collectively hated that they took it down after two screenings. In fact, a lot of the live-action movies, though successful, have a lot of criticisms to them, and I personally find them bland. A lot of people’s great ideas are often shot down or canceled due to the producers not thinking they will be successful.
What makes indie animation so popular is that the creator is in control and gets to stay with what they design and create, and that means they put their heart and soul into it, not for money but something they want to share with the whole world. For example, “The Amazing Digital Circus” started as an indie pilot and is now the most-watched show on YouTube, and has spread everywhere; you can even buy merchandise from Walmart and Hot Topic. Even creators that use to work for Disney are now going Indie with their newest shows, like Dana Terrace, the creator of “The Owl House” is now working with Glitch Productions to make her newest show “Knight’s of Guinevere” and Matt Braly, creator of Amphibia another popular show, has recently created his own independent animation studio Fantasy Project and creating his own little series called “Clara and the Below” and I hear they’re both really enjoying it. INDIE will RISE, DISNEY will FALL!
