>>150850071
This
The whole indy shift is the same Cali crews moving over to a non union studio and doing the same work but for less money. Something they all would have refused to do and shunned anyone they knew who tried it at any point in the past.

However, they are doing it because the legit studios crapped out and collapsed two years ago and there has been barely any work at all to be had anywhere. The indy craze is really more about people who have been out of work for a long time finally getting some work again in a shiny new place. They are all happily jumping over to the non union indy studio because it means they are working again.

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>>149266620
The real issue is that if you want to make anything worth a shit, you are going to need a team. No one really cares about the simple 1-2 minute silent thing with a single character moving around. They want voices which means voice actors, music, which means composers, they want variety which means animating multiple different characters on screen at a time so double or triple that animating requirement.

Yes we know that simply ANIMATING alone is incredibly time consuming and takes a lot of effort to accomplish. But animating is like 30-40% of the overall process.
But you also need to make backgrounds
You also need voice actors
Some shots will have several characters in them so that's more work
you need editing when the shots are complete and then more work to make sure they mesh together seamlessly

anything anyone will give two shits about is going to be a team effort involving a lot of people who are not going to want to do this for free or for the exposure