Submitted by StraightPoem4316 t3_zxbmhv in movies
Whereas pixar released turning red, a rocky movie with a mixed fan base, and lightyear, a film no-one was a fan of. While disney released strange world, an absolute flop.
Dreamworks had two gan favourites and critical darlings. The success was probably due to their reliance on a new form of animation style. Audiences where probable tired of the squeaky clean art style of TR, the hyper boring realistic art style of Lightyear and strange world, which had the same art style disney has been doing for the last 10 years.
Puss in boots and the bad guys went for a more stylised class8c warner brothers meets anime look.
Aside from that most of these films have a reliance on charming characters as apposed to the deep Oscar bait formula the disney and pixar employ.