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Thats probably a better definition than mine, still, I do enjoy the shocked expressions I get when I mention where the Rankin Bass stuff was animated.
They were actually some of the first people to outsource animation in Japan; they were doing this in the 60s when most animation for TV was done in America. The King Kong show they did in the 60s was animated at Toei. Most of their cel-animated specials of the 60s and 70s were animated at Osamu Tezuka's Mushi Productions. The Hobbit and The Last Unicorn were animated at Topcraft, which later became Studio Ghibli.
It's quite a legacy, really.