Trends in animation

animation features
2013 1 Frozen
         2 Despicable me 2
         3 monsters university

2012 1 Brave
          2 Madagascar  3
          3 Dr seuss Lorax

2011   1  Kun Fu Panda 2
           2 The smufrs

sequels are in, boosts the francises popularity and brings in more money
each series has tone of merchandise and some have spins offs, Madagascar  had the penguins of Madagascar and Despicable me will have a minions movie

there is well established companies such as Pixar, Dream works, universal , most of them have some hollywood actors doing the voice acting,

most of the films are family friendly and the target audience is families and people who grew up with their movies

the films are like PG rated

other types of movies are things like, nightmare before christmas, corpse bride, 9, Coraline, paranorman, frankenweenie
these are still family rated movies but are a lot darker, they are quiet gothic,

while the lego movie is very quirky and its humor appeals to all ages