How Did American Animation Influence Australian Animation

American animation has influenced Australian animation to a small extent. Australian Animators adopted their animation techniques from America. The time from the Sound Era to the time when television animation became popular was the beginning of a rise in the creation of Australian animation. The Australian producer Yoram Gross produced some of Australia’s most well recognised and well known Australian animations. The Lego Movie produced by an Australian animation studio, Animal Logic, in collaboration with various American animation producing companies should be recognised as an Australian animation film.

Australian animators had adopted their animation techniques from America. Stop motion animation was first used by American J. Stuart Blackton in 1898. It was used to make a short animated film called The Humpty Dumpty Circus. At its

At the time Eric Porter an Australian animator endured the labour of making animation and persevered in the face of many difficulties. He was creator of many animations including the iconic Aeroplane Fruit Jellies Advertisement, Bertie the Aeroplane . After television was introduced in Australia TV to became the main source of animation. At the time there was a new genre of “Saturday Morning Cartoons” these were being dominated by the US production company Hanna Barbera . Australian animators had made a contribution towards the making of various Hanna Barbera cartoons as there was a production company in Sydney. Australia’s first educational children’s TV program was ABC’s Kindergarten Playtime and it was also one of the first television programs which featured animation. Thus, the American animation studios at the time had little to no contribution to the Australian animations which were being made from the sound era to the time when television animation became