Would you rather take:
>the animation route
>the comics route
>the illustrator route
Why?
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Would you rather take:. >the animation route. >the comics route. >the illustrator route. Why?
Why not do it all? Be a jack of all trades.
It's more fun being master at 1 thing rather than mediocre in multiple things
the dicky route
The internet artist route
The MILF route
I have the ideas for animations and comics, but not the drive to pump them out continuously. I'd pick illustrator and maybe do personal projects from the other categories on the side.
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That's an ideal scenario. Usually you just have time for one of them.
I worked as an animator the only people making shows are storyboard artists
I respect artists who can do all three
what part of animation? storyboarding, or design?
On the one hand I adore animation as a watcher while bearly ever reading comics but on the other hand animation is the most tedious shit ever and practically speaking you have to work on large teams and always have like 12 buttholes you have to answers to while having to sigh away everything you create to corpos and slurping ass for funding.
While I don't personally enjoy or read comics nearly as much as I enjoy watching animation, I would MUCH prefer taking that route if I actually had the skills to do it.
Very small teams or can do almost everything solo, don't have to answer to corpos unless you are using someone else's IP, low barrier to entry financially speaking, and is nowhere near as tedious to actually do.
I guess if CGI developed to the point where it would be super easy for a very small team or even just one or two people to produce something decent in a month with a low budget then animation would look better to me, but since realistically that isn't a thing, the workflow and work environment of comics is better.
Unintrested in illustrator route as you are basically everyone's b***h if you are trying to make money doing it.
Just doing your own creative thing and not taking on clients and doing what they want you to do will not make you money.
Also since part of the thing I enjoy in such things is story telling, illustration isn't the ideal tool for doing such a thing. Rather more of a supplement to story telling then a good way of telling a story on it's own.
What about the road less traveled, the fine arts route?
That isn't fine arts.
It meets the bare definition, friend. Art made for the sake of aesthetics and creative expression.
If you mean to say that it isn't a good example of the fine arts, then that's a whole other question altogether.
It really doesn't
Learn what art terms mean.
No.
If I had to choose between those then I'd take the suicide route.
I wanted to work in animation for a long time (I still do) but I'm now a lot more focused towards writing comics. I've had more success just halfassing my way into comics in the past six months than I've had in trying to be an animation writer since I was in college.
Plus comics seem a lot more open to telling the kinds of stories I want to tell than the American animation industry is.
How did you go about becoming an animation writer? Like, you're a writer that just so happens to only write for animation projects?
How exactly did that happen? Did you study animation, creative writing, or both?
Animation is too time consuming and you need to have a team to make something truly good. Illustration in other hand is kinda static and it's hard to tell stories in that medium.
Comics is the way.
Animation is great in theory but it’s mind numbing thankless work. Comics and illustration have enough of an overlap that you could make both work
I wonder if comics and illustration are still profitable.
Anything is profitable with the right skills and marketing
Bump
Why?
I would've rather have lived a normal childhood and a healthy upbringing so I wouldn't have to be obbsessed with drawings and have a need to become an artist in the most moronic, disrespected and unapreciated medium that is animation and ilustration in general.
I just want to be blue pilled and become a banker or stock broker or some shit but no the little homosexual wanted to study film and become an animator. All because he got hard everytime Panini or Frankie appeared on screen.
None of the above, but if I had to choose then comics. You don't even have to be an actual good writer/storyteller/artist -- just show up, do quick work maybe be a bit of a memelord on social media and you'll get steady jobs just through the inertia and nepotism of the industry.
Comics because I'm into visual storytelling, and while I like animation in 2d and 3d, I cant into sound design enough to be full animation and not a good enough artist to go full illustrator
Illustrator/5 second loop animator is the best at the moment. Animator for a big company means working on other people's projects with the hopes of maybe pitching something and MAYBE getting a shot and MAYBE not having ti cut up to shit and MAYBE having it last past a season. And it better be a kids cartoon.
No one reads comics unless they're online and have waifu/husbandu bait. Or porn. And even then porn artists who do pinups or small animation loops get more attention.
I'm thinking either webcomic or making a game, likely an RPG over an FPS since it's easier to make, despite the fact that I think an FPS would fit my themes better. Regardless, of what route I take, though, I'm definitely going to have to get better at drawing first.