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Anonymous10/12/25, 02:27No.7755073
I understand making art for art's sake and drawing for myself but as an animators, the thought of posting my work to little to no viewers makes me feel like I'm shouting into the void or babbling to myself in a padded cell. I genuinely feel insane. I even make DVDs of my animations that no one has bought and I just watch them in my room alone.
This can't be healthy
Pic rel not my art obviously
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Anon10/12/25, 02:46No.7755083
Based and schizo pilled
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Anon10/12/25, 03:35No.7755118
Thats kind of cool though, and ive thought of that too.Go analog bro. Sell your shit on dvds at cons. Thats how a lot of things like indie movies and such got passed around before the internet. That way you dont have to worry about bullshit shadow bans and algos.(my twitter got locked down despite paying for that fucking blue check mark.)Also, pwy ya dingus.
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Anon10/12/25, 03:40No.7755124
You need to make friends. If you can't then you will not be successful. I'm sorry.
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Anon10/12/25, 05:16No.7755192
Same. I gotten to a point where I'm good and have just been relying on retweets from random bigger artist here n there. This shit makes me go mental but everyone got a start somewhere. Idk if making friends really helps or not but idk where one would even start to do that online.
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Anon10/12/25, 08:53No.7755290
I'll watch it. I'm worth 100k views
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Anon10/12/25, 09:00No.7755298
marketing skill issues.
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Anon10/12/25, 09:01No.7755299
People in here are mixing up industry success with social media popularity.
You make art friends to get jobs, networking. they wont get you a billion views on tiktok.
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Anon10/12/25, 09:57No.7755331
Didn't read the thread but I'll watch whatever you've made, anon.
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Anon10/12/25, 10:59No.7755349
To which sites do you post?
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Anon10/12/25, 11:04No.7755351
>shouting into the void or babbling to myself in a padded cell
I live like this daily
Maybe bite the bullet without hitting rock bottom out of misery first.. First step is leaving the toxic bitter shithole that is /ic/
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Anon10/12/25, 18:49No.7755637
I'd rather have a small but consistent audience of a few hundred people than to be super popular at one point, only to steadily lose viewers. That's far more sad, imo. I've seen it so many times, YouTubers who once had millions of views to now post to maybe 10k at best
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Anon10/12/25, 23:36No.7755887
You'd think more indie animators would release their shit on DVD or Blu-ray. Burning discs isn't super expensive either, unless you're trying to have them glass pressed like retail copies
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Anon10/13/25, 00:12No.7755934
>I understand making art for art's sake and drawing for myself
Well--
>but as an animators
Oh I see.
Yeah when your entire "art making" career is based on being a slave in a long line of manufacturing then of course you cannot appreciate the practice, 90% of the time your medium is pure labor devoid of anything else.
Don't worry about it, fine art Gods will handle it, you just get back to work ok?
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Anon10/13/25, 03:17No.7756089
you have to actually be insane and sick in the head to pursue frame by frame animation, its part of the jobno normal person would put themselves through the grueling task of hundreds of sketches, inkings, filling colors/shadows/highlights for a measly 10 seconds of outputyou either quit or learn to embrace it, because im telling you 90% of them dont even care if anyone sees their work, they only get satisfaction from playing back stuff to themselves
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Anon10/13/25, 07:08No.7756328
Almost no one truly makes art "for themselves". That's just how people are able to sleep at night so they don't rope