I'm Broke At The Moment TvT But I Hope Others Can Help

I'm broke at the moment TvT but I hope others can help

I'm sorry for dropping this to you all so suddenly, but please read and share, i need all the help i can get right now..

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Rip MT's back

Stepping on a crack to break your father's back?

Purple *STOMPING ON CRACKS INTENSELY*

JDJSJEJSJ

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Wait, my Purple's RB is a mom.

And if MT is their new dad...

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Oh oh.

This fight's getting spicy

HES AN ANGRY BOIII

THE NEW AVA/AVM SHORT?

Alan I see what you did making the short adblocker based and orange being it

ANYWAY? ORANGE’S NOISES? HELLO?

I've been seeing a lot of doom and gloom about the animation industry lately, particularly related to AI, overwork, underpay, etc. As an artist in the industry, would you mind sharing your view of things? Is it as bad as it looks?

It's definitely rough out there right now, just because of a number of different factors:

Being overworked and underpaid has been an issue for a real long time. This area is actually improving a little bit (but not completely) since I first came into the industry.

Social media platforms collapsing because of crappy management's poor decision-making is a problem, since that's where a lot of artists network and even find new jobs.

The streaming bubble is a big reason why a lot of my friends are out of work right now...a lot of our work was going into streaming, and the streaming companies in turn have screwed over artists in a number of different ways (weird splits on seasons, cancelling shows to avoid residuals, not giving proper credit or marketing, obfuscated viewership numbers, etc.) So either streaming needs to be fixed to be artist and viewer-friendly, or better platforms need to come about for hosting shows and movies.

AI is definitely an issue, but it's not just the animation industry; it's something to deal with in a lot of different industries. That's one of the big reasons that the writers and actors are striking, and it's very important that they get job protection from that, since that will affect a lot of other industries. (Animation's union, TAG, can't sympathy strike right now; their contract is renewed next year...and where I work in Canada, most studios don't even have a union.)

If you're looking to get into the industry yourself, what I do want to emphasize is that this is not a death knell, and that you shouldn't give up on it! The industry always goes through ups and downs, and unfortunately right now we're in a down state, and it's nerve-wracking since it's not clear when or how we'll go back up. But despite what tech bros and mediocre capitalists lacking imagination may say, the world will always need art made by humans, and that includes animation. The important thing to remember is that you're not going at it alone, and that as with most things, there's real power in unionizing and solidarity with fellow artists. That's why I think union stuff keeps coming up, and why it's so important...because collective action is the real solution to all these problems the industry is facing right now.

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