>can I make a living as an animator?
No. Get a real job.

Based

>>149113978 (OP)
I had to hop back on the retail horse and holy hell, I already want to quit, I think I'd rather be homeless
It's weird because I've worked these types of jobs for nearly 10 years when I was 16-mid 20s. Now that I'm 30, I can't stand it anymore.
Tried applying to better jobs to no success despite recently having a degree (although it's a marketing degree so it's my own fault)

>>149113978 (OP)
No

>doesn't want animators to have jobs
>bitches and moans and cries and shits himself when there's nothing to watch
I know it's bait but I see this happen a lot. Is it just jealousy?

>>149114805
It's almost like these are different people making these posts...

>>149114833
There's like 10 different posters on this board at best

>>149114854
I wish that was true.

>>149113978 (OP)
the only real jobs are construction slave, farm slave, or healthcare.

>>149113978 (OP)
The problem is that people are in California, if they'd let other states besides Georgia and Florida to make cartoons and not having to follow LA's bullshit rules then we could have more people working in animation.
But the millennial women in charge won't allow it because they want all the control.

Wait, 4chan is pro NEET, why do anons here fetishize wage labor? I swear some people would literally would post the S.W.E.A.T pledge. What's next, unironic shilling for anons to join the military to fight in the Iran war?

Remember if you sign up to fight for Iran NOW you can make a bonus up to 100K USD!!!

>>149113978 (OP)
Draw character, make key frames, ai inbetween them, upload to legal streaming platform monetize, make a tiny profit, call yourself an animator, find an old rich lady with cats, tell her you are an animator

Real profit

>>149114918
>What's next, unironic shilling for anons to join the military to fight in the Iran war?
That's been going on for years

>>149114918
For me?
It's because I was unable to realize my animation ambitions. I genuinely can't even look at a cartoon without being filled with unironic, seething rage. Meanwhile I have to wage at goddamn grocery stores all day every day to afford my shitty apartment that now costs $1.4k
If I can't be happy, I don't want any other artist to be either

>>149115045
Mean petty and uncalled for but artistic af

>>149114833
So it's jealousy, then?

>>149114805
Have you considered that if animators make things that are good that people want to watch, they will want them to be employed too?

Instead of making vanity projects or formula like beanmouth.

>>149113978 (OP)
They're always hiring for senior animators, anywhere in the world actually but a lot of the guys in the US don't have the skill set. Like I know this one guy they fly him from LA to Vancouver because of j

>>149115045
Maybe you should watch live action and read books, I can't imagine browsing /co/ is healthy for you.

>>149115045
Based

>>149115045
Fundamentally you either need connections or skills and it looks like you have neither.

>>149114955
I love how stupid people throughout the word AI and then think they're clever with no conceptual even what they're talking about.

>>149115150
>it's an animator or artist's job to make the low-effort slop that the executives greenlight into something good
Artists don't have the creative control you think they do.

>>149115696
Then make a comic or something that shows your skills and character writing and humor and all

Plenty of cartoons come straight from comics and anybody can make one. The HTTYD remake originates in a children’s book.

Working as a butcher for these last years has given me the financial and mental stability to improve on my drawing skills.

Plus I am now an expert on animal anatomy.