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Anonymous10/19/26, 02:18No.8064677I don't know why I pursue art anymore
It's been almost 10 years since I went down this path.
When I began, it was 2018, and I was still a young teen who watched Steven Universe on the TV, and other shows. I had basically watched cartoons my whole life. So I knew, I wanted to make my own show one day.
I had hope back then, because this was before AI, before streaming was massive, before every network I grew up on died.
I have spent my entire art journey pushing myself. I started knowing nothing, but I just drew, I even made animations without understanding anything about animation at all.
And through it all I have watched everything I knew and love come to crumble.
10 years later, I am in college. I'm okay at drawing, but I don't know why I am doing this.
Teachers tell me the industry will recover, but I'm not sure.
Am I doing this to make a series? That's what I wanted to do when I started, but where would I go when the networks don't exist anymore?
Do I make it independently? I tried that... twice now, but making something on that scale simply isn't possible without a team or money.
At this point, I've come to the conclusion that it's not possible. I might as well just make a webcomic instead of having my ideas realized as animation.
The truth it, it saddens me. I feel like there is no place for me in the animation industry because people who have experience are always gonna have 1-up on me. Even in the indie space, I feel Glitch prioritzes hiring experience, not training the next generation of artists.
So... at the end of all this, I'm not giving up. But, I realize there simply is no opportunities. There's nothing I can do about that either.
I guess I'll just be a hermit comic artist that knows animation until things get better.
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Anon10/19/26, 02:20No.8064678
pyw
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Anon10/19/26, 02:24No.8064680
Delete thread and go to the animation general [/ic/thread/8040853#p8040853]
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Anon10/19/26, 02:28No.8064684
Steven universe is super gay and cringe. Cant really care about anything you have to say if youre into that show
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Anon10/19/26, 17:12No.8065040
Train an ai model on your style then just ai gen it and pretent you drew it yourself. Block anyone who says you didn't, it would only take a week or two to go over every frame and remove ai mistakes which is still insanely good turn around time.
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Anon10/19/26, 17:31No.8065056
didnt read, just do it for fun. man up
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Anon10/19/26, 18:55No.8065112
>chatgpt-saar, pretend you are sad artist luddite and write epic 4chan /ic/ troll post make no mistakes
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Anon10/19/26, 19:24No.8065137
i can put no effort into my art and still get some without having to evaporate 25 lakes to gen a picture
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Anon10/19/26, 20:24No.8065172
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Anon10/20/26, 03:36No.8065407
You worry too much. Why call yourself an artist if you don't like drawing anymore?