Oh No All These Lines Fell Out Of My Pen And I Can't Get Them Back In, It's 5:00am Hello

Oh no all these lines fell out of my pen and I can't get them back in, it's 5:00am hello

do you get payed for your animations or are you just rich enough to make them just because you want to?

I get paid for commercial animations, so any music videos, TV segments, advertisements, game cinematics and the like. I then withdraw all of that money and burn it in an iron stove, to keep me alive during the winter months as I make my personal work in an isolated mountain cabin.

Drawing what LOOKS good? Why do that when you can surrender your creative judgement to a mess of excessive self-imposed guides?

Hey hey I animated a little story a while ago and it's coming out in this little show by Starburns Industries for VICE, I don't know what Viceland is if that's like a TV thing or an internet thing, but if you can then you should watch it, COOL

i want to animate. ijust ordered a light box. i have no idea what im doing. thoughts?

Good. If you learn animation in an academic context, it's often taught with a lot of arbitrary dos and don'ts that are a hangover from old industry methods. More concerned with teaching formulas than helping you cultivate a genuine understanding.Familiarising yourself with the medium and experimenting with it before anyone else has influenced the way you approach it, will harbour an uninhibited relationship with what you're doing, and you'll develop working methods that are informed by your current creative processes.Missing out that step is like giving an anatomy book to a child that's never drawn before. That would be a weird. Just give the kid some art supplies and let them figure themselves out, then when they're older they'll know if an anatomy book is right for them, or if they work with a completely different set of values and processes.So get that light box and don't worry about the 'right' way to do things. just Play around with it, see what happens, and if you like the way something looks then roll with it. Good luck!

Tall background for a panning shot. Not too tall though, just a teeny bit