Animation Trends

Animation has seen many trends over the years and they are constantly shifting, recently we've seen many animations follow these trends:

Sequels, a sequel is always a good way to make a movie and pretty much assure it sticks, with an already established brand you know that people are going to see it, some good examples of these include, monsters inc2 and even Planes.

merchandising animated feature length films usually come with millions of dollars worth of merch that follow, for example you can buy pretty much every Disney character ever conceived and this solidifies a brand name and strengthens any future titles.

family movies a family movie is almost instantly going to do well, people want to take their families to see movies together, to have a day out, and more people going mean more ticket sales.

computer animated 3D disney and pixar pretty much own this type of animated film, with legendary titles under their belt working together or alone with films like toy story, tangled, frozen, ice age and many more very well known household family films, the style is solid and friendly and also very appealing to any audience.

established celebrities and stars for voice actors: celebrities appearing as stars in films has been happening for decades now and having one appear in an animation has the same effect, like tom hanks voicing woody in toy story and so on people will be drawn to a film just because a star is in it somehow.