Disney could go over to it.
To be fair, some of those classic WERE tied to Japan one way or other. Look at Thundercats of old, and the fact it was made by anime japanese artists is.. visible plainly.
Is it anime-ation when it was already quite anime ?![]()
It just go to show how much the rise in popularity was a global phenomena that was driven primarily by production cost
Much classic US animation was animated overseas in first world sweatshops, Australia, for example, with the Flintstones. Where the animators live, and what production techniques are used in animating between tweens, aren't as relevant perhaps as artistic style, story telling, genre, mis-en-scen, costume, genre, theme, reception culture, marketing, fan culture?
Even in Japan, most non-H anime is directed at kids or teens, it's just considered acceptable for it to conatain more sophisticated concepts than equivalent American animation along with the more obviously kiddy elements.A wide variety of Japanese shows produced never hit US television because they don't match a "cartoons are for kids" demographic, and are imported by specialist market groups or fan communities.