Were animators always set up for failure..? 💭

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⭐️ ABOUT THIS VIDEO
Digging deep into the core problem of animation, and why I believe animation was never set up to be 'commercialised' -- due to the sheer amount of work that needs to go into the art form, unless a studio has a large large budget, why animators are rarely fairly compensated for their work, thus also forming a really bad case of overworking culture within the animation industry :"OO

0:00 the fundamental problem with animation itself
4:19 so how long does it take to make an animation?
7:46 how bad does it get?
11:20 why hasn't it gotten better?
14:50 then.. why do we keep making animations?

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