>>117601765It helps that back in the '40s almost every major Hollywood studio (RKO, WB, MGM, Paramount, Columbia, Universal) had their own animation studio, so if an animator left one of them the others would be very quick to hire them again.
There is no way an animator today has the opportunity to draw full, theatrical quality animation consistently like they could in the '40s, so they simply cannot rack up the same amount of experience to become the next Milt Kahl, Rob Scribner, Bob McKimson, etc.
