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Awe thanks! It's nice to be a bit more active again!

These are just lovely!

Yes absolutely. And, of course, when I say "Animators" I don't mean just us....every part of production gets dragged into this of course.

We all do! I understand completely, I too want to do this for a living and am willing to be underpaid to get in. It's a deep problem and I'm not sure how we can get out of it

So much of bad practices is driven by how badly we all want to get paid to do this!

Anyway, that's all for now. I just worry and wanted to talk about it. What do you guys think?

btw, if you're interested in this, there's a pretty good write-up here that goes into it a bit: www.vox.com/culture/2019...

But I worry it doesn't end there. The anime industry also started with passionate people trying to make this medium work on a budget....and the fallout from that was an entire industry built on exploiting passionate artists.

Is indie just a fantastic opportunity for new animators to get a foot in the door? I hope that's it.

I am not faulting anyone. I don't think any of this was done on purpose. Again, it's a perfect storm: it's something we couldn't necessarily have predicted. But I see the road it's going down and I worry.

And it's indie! So of course they don't have the budget...and they are upfront about that! They TELL you "we're indie, this is all we can afford!"

Enter the new animators, who now see an easier way into working in animation. The dream!