Animation is a film technique that can be alternately very expensive, or very cheap to produce depending on what level of life-like quality the producers are shooting for. The scale presented here is for major productions like feature films, or TV series where what is presented is clearly meant as animation as opposed to digital visual effects that are inserted into live action productions. Individual Short Films, as opposed de facto series like Looney Tunes or Superman Theatrical Cartoons, are also excluded as they are more open to experimental techniques like drawn-on-film, pixiliation, or pinscreen animation. Those are primarily used purely for artistic reasons as opposed to the more commercial consideration of bigger productions and thus are outside the scope of this scale. That said,