The animation industry is an absolute trash fire right now, and TBH… I don’t think it’s going to recover. Not in a form I recognize, anyway.

I could go on all day about the self-hating monster that is the Animation Business, but I’ve said it all before. Right now, none of the major studios are making much of anything, and almost all of what they are making is “library content”. I’m currently doing storyboard revisions alongside a number of other former producers and directors, and I’m lucky to have the work. Once all of the mismanagement and the mergers get sorted, though, there should be plenty of room for more mismanagement and mergers. And the A.I. Don’t forget the A.I.

It seems that I either give myself over fully to the souring corporate teat in the hopes that I can pretend that I still live in a world where “the grind” matters. Or I take a risk and make one big push to do… something.

I've been thinking about this for a while, 'cus I really like animation. Studios really want people to make art for them to sell, but then they get squeamish when artists make art that middle/upper mangers don't understand. A lot of really great shows have to wrap up too soon 'cus some executive got mad that there was a drawing of women kissing, and axed the show.

It's honestly a little baffling. Like, you know people notice when that happens, yeah? Especially people in the industry. Why would someone want to sign on to a creative project with the threat of that looming over it? Audiences also notice that. So what if the animators wrote in a gay romance? Maybe a fraction of the audience stop watching. Canning the show just guarantees the whole audience stops watching.