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canadian animator here, thank you for speaking about our vibrant culture in animation. canadian animation is great

this video got the maple syrup in my blood pumping

Great video, Doodley! Thanks for sharing your appreciation for our animated content and showcasing the importance of publicly funded art. 🥰 We hope your fans and followers enjoy our films and discover new gems in our ever-growing collection!

Omg THANK you for this. I'm from the US but I work as an animator in Canada (both film and tv), and it can be so frustrating hearing people talk smack about Canadian animation, then immediately talk about their favorite movies or shows... that they have no idea are animated in Canada. The reality is even if a Candian studio does 95%+ of the animation on a tv show or movie, animation is still credited to the LA studio (which sometimes only has an artist or two in each department to make last minutes changes). I've even worked on projects with no LA artists at all that are still attributed to the US company. I'd also push back on the idea that Canadian animation is taking over: we've been here pretty much the whole time. I think the difference is that the rise in streaming has allowed for longer end credits, which in turn has allowed for more studios to get proper credit for their work! I can't tell you how many beautiful shows and films are credited to Netflix, Hulu, Amazon, Disney, etc. when they're animated almost entirely in Canada. It's not just short films, either. The Monkey King (2023) is one of my favorite animated movies in the last 10 years. It's listed as "Netflix Animation", but if you dig you'll find the bulk of the work was completed in Canada (mostly Reel FX). Vancouver's Sony Imageworks is responsible for stunning animation in Spiderverse, and Wind Sun Sky Entertainment is behind the breakout Amazon hit Invincible, but no one thinks of these as "Canadian animation". Even for older tv franchises like MLP, Rick and Morty, Animaniacs, Peanuts, etc. I've found most American fans have no clue that these are largely Canadian work. Canada has produced award-winning animation for decades now; it's just that credit is finally starting to be searchable. I also love that you showed the short Bao as one of your examples: Bao was made by Domee Shi, who grew up and went to art school in Canada. She went on to write and direct Turning Red for Disney, a fantastic film based on her childhood up north. Turning Red is "American animation" even though it's the story of Canadian protagonists, set in Canada, written and directed by a Canadian citizen who studied animation in Canada. Doesn't that seem a little odd? I feel that modern animation productions can't really be defined as the work of a single country. I think there's a subconscious understanding for some (not all) LA animators that anything made or worked on outside LA originally belonged to LA, and thus the work is viewed as being 'taken over'. I think we as an industry need to analyze that mindset with a more critical eye, especially given how few animators are born where they work. Thanks again for covering this! If you ever want to talk about the topic more I'd love to chat.

Native Leaf Man here, please allow me to speak on behalf of all Canadians watching: "WOOOOO, OUR COUNTRY WAS MENTIONED! LET"S GOOOOOOOO!!!!"

Hilda (the *phenomenally* good cartoon aired on Netflix) was one of the huge wins for Canadian art being properly appreciated on a wider scale. Also, it isn't even just animation, Canada facilitates the filming of hundreds of American movies and TV shows every year. Any time you see a show that's not a documentary with scenes set in a "lush, unspoiled wilderness", it was probably filmed somewhere around Vancouver, like Whistler or Squamish.

Video games are pretty big cultural export from Canada too. Mass Effect, Dragon Age, Celeste, Pizza Tower, Cuphead, etc. Glad to see our little frozen wasteland getting some recognition.

Man, I love the ONF/NFB. When I was young, we had a school trip where we got to visit their offices in Montréal. It got me hooked on animation for so many years. In the end, as I found new hobbies, I did not pursue a career in the arts, but I've always kept a niche interest for animation and I think the organisation can be credited for that. Beyond enabling the development of our talent pool, I think the ONF/NFB serves a huge cultural role here. Cultural exports from Canada are hard to get out, or hard to be seriously marketed. This may be biased from my perspective as a french canadian, but much of Anglo Canada's cultural content is kind of amalgamated to that of the U.S, and it makes it seem as if the region, although full of talent, consumes more content from outside than it seems to be producing its own. Québec, from its language barrier, has had a vested interest in being a culture generator, which I believe has enabled it to portray itself favorably compared to other provinces. Surrounded by majority english territory, however, I see much of Québec culture nowadays aimed at saving itself by supplying a lesser array of "cultural ventures" and ensuring traditional forms of content remain french in practice. I think this has the opposite effect it wants to have, as those who dare to innovate with their art or those who would consume more stimulating forms of content are forced to go elsewhere, but i digress. As much as french and anglo canadians can hate each other (lol) I think the ONF/NFB kinda serves a purpose for the both of these groups in enabling artists to make great stuff and enabling all canadians to be proud of their cultural exports. Way to go ONF/NFB! I hope they never stop what they are doing.

Shoutout to Canada for being where I grew up. Treehouse is the GOAT

As an Australian, I remember basically all good tv shows were made in Canada. Detentionaire was one of their best.

As a Canadian studying animation, I'd like to say that the NFB is a very important part of both our study and (in my opinion) our culture as Canadians. I've both lived in Canada my whole life and loved animation since I was a kid but I didn't know about the NFB's existence prior to going to art school and i wish i did because there is so much cool stuff to watch, I remember in my second year of uni our professor would show us stuff from the NFB for our lessons like "Neighbours" and explain some principles, techniques, and types of animation using the videos as reference before giving us our assignments lol. Also love your stuff Doodley, you're such an inspiration :]

The Cat Came Back is ICONIC. I remember it playing frequently between other TV shows. Also, we had Canadian PSAs, and one of the ones that was probably my favourite was the house hippo. If you've never seen it, please look it up!

I had a mini heart attack when doodley said “if you’re looking at this footage and thinking ‘wow, those eyes look real’. That’s because they are.” Because I thought that meant they put actual human eyes into a puppet. But actually, amazing video, I should really check out these Canadian short films!

Let's never forget that Canada Animation were dominated during our childhood. DKC animated series,Jane and The Dragon,6Teen,TDI,Miss Spider,Rolie Polie Olie,Tintin,Ruby Gloom,Wayside,Franklin,Max & Ruby those show were memorable. Which is really sad that nowadays most people remember from Canada animated series is the non stop Fart jokes.

Fun fact. The Vancouver film school is directly across the street from the national film board of Canada.

Interestingly enough, a lot of the shows I grew up with on Australian tv were Canadian animated shows. I never understood why they the Canadian government symbol at the end till now.

Fun fact: The creator (and animator) of Pizza Tower is Canadian.

It was a Canadian studio, Mainframe Entertainment, that created the first fully CGI TV series. "Reboot". Mainframe Enterainment would later go on to work on Beast Wars.

Canadian animation mention that isn't Care Bears, 6teen, Cybersix, Total Drama, or Paw Patrol is SO rare because so few people think about what else we produce!

I feel like the Canadian government realized decades ago that we can fund things other than our military, and now look what cool stuff has come out of it! 13,000 unique short films is awesome. You, or some other animatuber, should make a series putting a spotlight (for the first time) on *some of* their favourite of these short films. Ive grown up in Canada and never knew about any of this so I feel like its important to highlight them.

As a Canadian, I am so happy to see at least someone with a bigger social presence talk about the positive that our animation has done instead of the negative. It is really nice to see more ppl know about our gouvermnet funded shorts and know about it. Side note: I loved Johnny Test and find it nostalgic. I will die on this hill. I know it's bad but I love it.

12:20 seeing the cat came back was such a sudden feeling of nostalgia one of my favourite animations when I was little

As a Canadian animator myself, I am so happy to see this video! I got the immense pleasure of getting taught by one of the animators for the partly founded NFB movie “The man who planted trees”, her name was Lina Gagnon (may she rest in peace). It is in my opinion one of the most impactful animated Canadian movie culture wise and I highly recommend the watch. Thanks for showing light on Canadian animation culture!

12:38 good sir i did not even have the SLIGHTEST clue this existed (which means it was all the cooler to learn about it!)

I think both Canada and France have created some of the best animation of all time.

The amazing thing about every Canadian Short you showed off today is that I have seen them all. They all aired on either YTV or Teletoon when I was a kid. I'm very glad you talked about them as they really are hidden gems on television today.

Borm and raised in Canada, and I grew up with my dad showing me a lot of these short films from the NFB. The Big Snit was one of those that we watched so often that I'm sure, even over a decade after my last watch, I could tell you each and every story beat. Canadians are used to the idea that no matter how great something we make is, it won't matter to anyone but us. And it's a shame. This video gave us what I feel most of us haven't had in a very long time: recognition of the art we make.

When I was a little kid, I borrowed an NFB DVD collection of award-winning animated shorts from my local library. Madame Tutli-Putli was on it, and it was the scariest thing I had ever seen. No movie traumatised me and seered itself into my brain as much as that one. I see it completely differently as an adult.

As a Canadian, I did not know Johnny test was Canadian

"oh canada" is a great way to start your video

Bro this was a fucking AMAZING analysis. I knew of some of the shows that came out being an American kid (ex. Ed, Edd, & Eddy, Total Drama Island, 6teen) and the concept of REALLY good shows that aired in America not being created here but I genuinely didn’t know anything about the Canadian government funding all these short films and how rich and heavy they fucked with animation up there. Hell I didn’t even know there was a concept of people making quality animated shows that didn’t sounds like torture to the animators producing the series like what we hear from WB and Disney. I say that to say thank you man I’m really going to do some research on that and find out more of what’s happening

The Log Driver's Waltz is probably the short I remember the most both for it's animation but also for it's catchy tune. And while not NFB, I really did like the CGI Short Circuits they use to air on YTV. Shorts were used to fill air-time between shows; as in Canada there is a limit to how much time you can allot to advertisements.

The NFB is amazing. I remember watching a few short films for various classes throughout school-my favourite being Log Driver's Waltz lol. It's cool to see Canadian animation getting more love!!

Most of our animated shows here in canada def do not get enough recognition. we've made some incredible stuff with rigged animation, cgi, and flash ones, like 6teen, hilda, detentionnaire, league of super evil, clone high, and more. I wish more people knew about our studios and animation culture, as we've helped produce some pretty awesome shows. If you ever wanna make a video exploring specific animation styles and techniques, I reccomend looking at Nerd Corp Entertainment's lineup of shows. Despite them being early 2000s cg shows, they're some of the best tv 3d animated shows ive ever seen, and they even helped animate some of the Monster High films!

I grew up without cable, so a lot of the cartoons I watched as a kid were on public television. One of the main channels I watched was Qubo, which at the time had acquired a lot of Canadian shows. The Canadian studios always felt like they stood out from their American counterparts on the channel. Jacob Two-two was definitely my favorite.

I had no idea how amazing the Canadian animation industry was, and I was born in it. I thank you for making this video 🇨🇦 🍁

If you ever do another Canada animation please talk about Hilda one the best animated show I’ve watched

I absolutely love this and your children's animation video where you dive deeper into the systems that create the art we know and love (or I guess in this case, DON'T know and SHOULD love). So many people like to isolate art from the complex and often crushing systems that dictate every day of our lives (and like, I get the appeal...) It'd be easy for your channel to focus only on the craftsmanship and keep art separate from all that. But learning the systems that fund, create, and publish great stuff is so important to truly love it, and certainly gives me a deeper appreciation for the folks that actually roll up their sleeves and make cool things. Besides, the best art usually isn't shy about the messy world that it comes from. Keep up the stellar work ✌

This video was such a nostalgia trip. Growing up, my dad would take me from time to time to the NFB/ONF location in Montréal. We’d sit down in individual seats and watch a bunch of random short films that were on offer. I remember binging a lot of the animated ones such as Ryan (which traumatized me as a kid) and the cat is back. This video brought me back, and definitely makes me appreciate my country a lot more. Thanks ❤️

1:08 Fun Fact: This is actually where the electronic duo Boards of Canada got their name from!

The same programs that helped fund animation in canada also have one for videogames. Thats why a lot of the big studios had studios set up in Montreal

i so learnt this in film studies (from canada). they will literally fund any indie project as long as you send it in and its just, cool. ive loved so many canada funded short films and im so happy someones bringing attention to it!!! we certainly have very talented artists here and i hope one day ill become one of those!

That’s actually really awesome that Canada supports animation like that. Now I want to see all these kind of animated films because there are so many different styles that I saw.

As a Canadian, I appreciate you talking about the rich history of our animation. I tend to see that a lot of what make's Canada, Canada, isn't really talked about a lot. People tend to focus on its compairason to our larger and southern neighbour, so I'm glad to see something like this for once. Thank You.

seeing canadian animation beating hollywood is really weird

Thank you for talking about Madam Tutti Putti, I remember watching that film years ago and I still think of it!

as a canadian who consumes maple syrup, thank you so much for exploring canadian and other countries animation! i had no idea that the USA didnt fund art as much as we do, and now maybe more animators will come here and continue to improve and innovate animation! also, my pet goose and my stallion moose say hi, but they were eating a heart breakfast of maple syrup 👍

I am so thankful you're talking about these! I was blessed to be a big part of Fangbone (voices and theme song), a Canadian cartoon that aired a bit in the states as well, and some others. It had a slightly larger budget than other Canadian animated series, as early on they actually had a writers room, rather than writers just writing scripts remotely and independently. It really benefitted the show. So much love went into that show and it turned out great overall, but I could feel how everyone was struggling with the limits of the funding and timeline. NFB is a wonderful exception, but its also not effortless to get funding as an artist, whatever siscipline you're in, and allotments also shrink or grow based on whose in power politically... and when art is seen as a 'waste of taxpayer money' by certain ppl. Canadian co-productions are often extraordinary: Hilda, Breadwinner (Oscar nominee for best animated film), a CBC show called 'What Its Like Being Alone'. I was also in a fully stop motion musical series called 'Norman Picklestripes' that was stunning, super impressive, and shockingly very hard to find! More of a Canada/US co production

How dare you, Johnny Test is peak animation. It showed me that the only aound design necessary was a whip crack, really brought me back to the late 1800's.

1:09 Boards of Canada! Boards of Canada! Boards of Canada! Boards of Canada! Boards of Canada! Boards of Canada! Boards of Canada! Boards of Canada! Boards of Canada! Great video as always, Dudley!

Wow, I live in Europe and most of the films you mentioned in this were shown to us in my uni animation classes by my professors, some of them multiple times. We've seen a rise in animation recently, for the first time in my country, exactly due to more public funding of short films, yeah.

Despite being a Canadian myself (and proudly sporting red and white online in the weirdest way), I haven't paid much attention to Canadian animation... But hey, I'll contribute to it as well in time! For now, time to appreciate what my country has produced. Also, got my Doodley plush the other week and I love it :3 It's now my rubber duck/rock to talk to while doing art so I can problem solve better!

Honestly, thank you for making this, as a Canadian I have always felt the love towards the arts in my country, be it drawn, music or just in general expression, and in recent years I've felt a bit of a pinch as more Americans come into Canada and I genuinely hate that feeling, it feels like some kind of weird propaganda sensation thrown to me but I think it's cause a lot of us Canadians aren't all that out spoken, unlike our American counter parts. But thankfully I have been noticing a big up swing in the focus of the arts here, I know I'm in a huge minority as a NSFW artist but I've not only received support because I'm an artist and I have more ambitions than just NSFW things like making my own visual novel or comic series, but also because I have a pretty huge back drop of technical support in the form of my government, a few of my friends got some green lights from the NFB and are making their own work, I couldn't be more proud to be Canadian even through I'm not very patriotic at my core. I know my ideas can be safely pitched to not soulless corporations focused only on investors stocks rather than creative works, it's always been a heart warming feeling that I often forget isn't there for my American friends. Also, Canada made P*rnHub so you guys are also welcome for that.

One of my favorite shows: Ninjago, is animated by WildBrain and it’s insanely incredible with how the animators animate the action in that show

The Donkey Kong Country TV series was also made in canada.

"Go to the church and ask God to forgive you!!" - The Sweater, NFB Short Film

words cannot describe how happy i am about this, i have been in Canada for my whole life and i am glad you've shown our USA friends that there are a HUGE amount of Canadian animations that amazingly good. Thanks Doodley :)

Blackfly and Log Driver's Waltz are two of my favourite animations! They're also great at representing Canadian history and culture. Damn those dastardly blackflies!

I'd also recommend a retrospective on Nelvana Studios. Canadian!

It’s only been an hour, and the NFB has become my biggest obsession. I blame you.

Ive seen a bunch of these films from my animation lectures, but I had no idea they all came from canada! its really interesting to see how a little public funding can go so far!

So glad someone is talking about the NFB’s amazing linup+it’s film history. Im a canadian who had to learn about it in my animation class and many of the films have really inspired me as an animator (especially Ryan and neighbours). Hoping to see more ppl talk about it in the future. :] Amazing vid as always Doodley!

I live in Canada and didn’t know about some of this! Super informative!

As someone who has cousins living in Canada and watching Canadian cartoons, I personally think that Canadian animation is a mixed bag, and can either be a force of greatness or the bane of animation critics in America. Since I never grew up watching cable TV, I watched all of my animated content exclusively on both DVDs and digital purchases on Apple TV, and most of them were made in Canada. Some of my favorite animated films and cartoons from Canada are Rock & Rule, Cybersix, Ruby Gloom, Jacob Two-Two, Franklin, The Rhino and the Redbill and Night of the Zoopocalypse. Plus, I would love to see Saberspark doing a video on the NFB's short films.

You should do something on French animation as they have about as much history as the US does and date back to a similar time period. Both the US and France contributed a ton to the early days of animation. One of my favorite animators of this day is French and his name is Vincent Chansard. I believe he got his start with Wakfu but I don't know, nor have I seen Wakfu

Thanks for this video! As a Canadian, I grew up watching a few of the NFB shorts on a VHS I rented from my local library. I love them. You can actually find a ton of them on their official KZfaq page in high quality. (though I don't know if they're restricted outside of Canada)

This video is awesome! Despite being born and living in Canada all of my life, I was never really told much about the NFB as far as I can recall. A lot of the information here was complete news to me! I didn't even know that the NFB had those shorts available to watch either! Thank you so much for pointing myself and people around the globe to great canadian talent! Now if you will excuse me, I have some animated shorts to watch :D

treehouse brings me back dude, i remember watching stuff like max and ruby on treehouse, such good times.

I refuse to tolerate this Johnny Test slander

Great video, I'd love to see someone else do this video but with Irish animation. There's many examples of Irish animated movies, shorts and shows that deserve so much attention.

OMG!!! Thank you for making a video like this ^^ As a proud Canadian and someone who is soon to be an animation student in Canada. This video definitely brought a smile to my face since global recognition is being recognized. I remember watching these short films when I was a child and grew to love them thinking these were films everyone worldwide watches. I never realized how the concept of the government funding art is foreign and essentially weird. There are so many things I have talked about Canadian things to people worldwide but never realized it's only in Canada or if you live here it is 'common knowledge'. Anyways, the Canadian government also doesn't stop at funding animators they fund a whole variety of content like music, a variety of art, ice sculptures, etc. If you're trying to make 'Canadian content', you have the government's support. They love to help, along with us as Canadians. We love seeing art of course! For example in my city they hire artists to paint those random electrical boxes you see outside or make murals on buildings/skyscrapers, statues, road art. I've been to many and I mean MANY cities and towns across Canada and they always have art outside to show to the world. My dad is an architect so I get a lot of insight when they are making commercial or government buildings. Every project every single time they love to hire artists to create something for the building to show more culture depending on where it is and what the building is for. Sometimes even the building means something. Canadian art is everywhere here essentially! So I definitely implore you to come visit or do more research on Canada. Canada is like a huge positive pandora's box just waiting to be explored all you have to do is look.

Canadian studio Hinterland Studios, Developer of The Long Dark, made one of my favorite games of all time. It's such a beautiful game.

Thank You! I'm Canadian and I've been showing my friends these films for years. Its very nice that more people will know about them. Also, Fugget About it's youtube channel has over 1 million subs. Oh Canada!

10:00 BRASIL MENTIONED!!! luxuriously produced as ever, nice video

Canadian animation is fucking awesome! Johnny Test, 6Teen, Total Drama, Johnny Test, Wayside, Jacob Two Two, Roly Poly Olie, Franklin, Arthur, I got off track and just kept naming shows so I don’t know where this sentence is going.

Canadian doodley is awesome, if you ever make another Canada video or something like that talk about Hilda its really good.

One of the best things that ever happened to me was after I watched one of those animation thesis that launch every semester and KZfaq recommended me a TON of short animated films. It was great. I felt like an archivist/erudite, watching this stuff and sharing it with people... If you allow me this tagent: it feels like how sometimes I sorta forget that I could find that one book I've been looking for from somebody else who may not want it anymore, or sitting still in a Sebo (a style of second-hand bookshop you find in Brazil). I see that jacked-up price of some recently published bestseller in a mall bookstore and think: "Maybe I could find it in a Sebo." Then I don't find it... But I find this other interesting book, or a comic book I've been looking for... In one of them I even found a figurine I added to my collection!

As a Dane, "The Danish Poet" intrigued me. I found it on KZfaq and it was very beautiful and inspiring. Thank you for sharing.

One of my uncles took me to a screening of the NFB shorts one year when I was a kid, it completely changed my life. Animation has been one of the great loves of my life ever since.

I went to the ONF for a school trip once! We did our own little animation there and we watched some of the animated shorts there it was really fun!

More people needs to know about this! It's insane how little this is documented, and I'm glad you could help tell people about this. I'm american and I didn't know about this, but thank you!

I hope you do a separate video on the Canadian animation studio Nelvana. As a Canadian kid growing up in the '90's, their out put was insane - Rupert Bear, Tintin, Stickin' Around. Magic School Bus, Pipi Longstocking, Redwall, just to name a few. Seriously, they've been around since 1971, and they seem to get zero recognition for their work. We Canadians deserve to be noticed, dammit! ;)

My god i was honestly really worried places outside the US were dealing with the same issue. Hearing that the US is the only state not funding their arts makes me feel a lot better about the world as a whole. And it's giving me even more reason to live anywhere other then the US

Im Canadian and I remember in elementary school, every year since grade 4, several classes and schools would go to the movie theatres to watch Canadian short films. Some were live action, but most were animated. At least from what I remember. I also remember wanting to submit my own animations to them :)

Oh Canadian Cartoons!

yippie!! as a Canadian animation student it's lovely to see the appreciation for our industry here in Canada!!! I'm so happy to have grown up with Canadian-made cartoons :)

i remember finding out paw patrol was animated in Toronto and recorded in Kitchner when i found the casting call for the 2nd and 3rd Paw Patrol Movie

Animation is slowly becoming one of Canada's biggest exports **Whipcrack**

OH CANADA 🇨🇦 🗣️

One thing you forgot to mention is that the NFB produced the pilot for Peep and the Big Wide World. That show was the GOAT.

As a Canadian, I aspire to make a big fat animation production company, making feature films, series, short films and videos.

as a canadian animator i feel honoured 🇨🇦

YOO ITS A DOODLEY VID!!

Oh man, I remember watching "Ryan" as a young teen in a film camp I went to in the 2000s. I didn't really understand what the video was about, neither did I remember the title, and because of that I never saw this short film again until after you mentioned it in this video. That was almost 2 decades ago, but I never forgot about it, and because of that it eluded me. I wanted to remember. I only remembered the abstract visuals from the I first watched it as a kid, but now that I've watched it as someone with an adult life, I can now better appreciate the themes of the film.

Finally. NFB getting credit it deserves. Thank you for this!

I'll be honest, as a UK native, I grew up with some of these more than the popular American cartoons. Particularly Nelvana.

As a Canadian I say: "Sorry, Maple syrup lumberjack poutine, bud"

I love how an animation of Team Canada (Pause, Beef and Etho) showed in the results for Canadian animation xD

I'm not very involved with online discussion, but I haven't seen anyone mention or recognize some smaller but still very successful Canadian musicians either. Cepheid, Mathew Chalmers, Keith Power and David Gibson McLean just to name a few are all amazing at what they do but I never see them mentioned anywhere.