Western animation

Western animation, also known as cartoons when there is no need to set apart from other forms of animation, is a medium of animation in America and other western countries, but since no one cares about those other countries, we only focus on America. Many famous franchises, such as Looney Tunes, SpongeBob SquarePants, The Simpsons, and Family Guy, are made in this style of animation.

Characters
Characters in western animation are commonly depicted to be "possible", or having all features of their body be natural human features, in contrast to anime, which prefers to take a more unconventional route with character creation. This consists of natural length, texture, and color of hair and regular human eye color, body figure, and skin tone. However, some cartoons can feature characters that don't fit this description.

Cartoon characters may also be humanoid animals, meaning they're animals that, to some extent, take a human-like form. These characters typically possess human abilities, like speech and the capability to operate machinery, despite regular animals not. They're known as "funny animals" by Disney.

Environments
The places in cartoons normally are on Earth, but can be on other, fictional, or unspecified planets. If it's on Earth, the cartoon might happen in America, its home country, and may or may not specify which state.

Time
The time period of the cartoon, like with anime, can be in the past or future. The overall condition of the locations most likely will be appropriate with the time period, meaning there won't be things like cars in medieval times.