Worldwide appetite for Hollywood-branded animation increases. What's your point?

Tweening some crap Panda movie in Canada doesn't mean they laid off the entire city of Glendale.

"Nothing but executive level positions remain at big studios" -- Really? This is the cherry atop your preposterous, cherry-picked rant. Thousands of amazing animators bleed in the 91xxx zip codes daily.

EDIT: tons of open job listings (search various sub-categories like 'Animator' if this is too broad for you). http://www.indeed.com/q-Animation-l-Burbank,-CA-jobs.html

EDIT #2: http://www.indeed.com/jobs?q=Animator&l=Burbank%2C+CA

Those aren't exactly dying steel town numbers.