How much work goes into creating an animated series?

Finding the voice actors and actresses, writing the scripts' and creating the artwork.

A LOT. Actually, it depends. You have find voice actors, create a storyline, make the art, and piece it all together.

personally, i think the games do because it's actually them controlling it. this might cause them to think it's okay to do it for real. as for animated movies i think they are mostly fine because they're animated. also, animation has come a long way causing animated movies to become more real but 30 years ago this wouldn't be as big of a problem as today.