Four guys could get together and make their own movie, in a year, but nobody does it except Bill Plympton. What I'm saying is, that's what I would do, if I was young. I wouldn't even get a job. I'd get a couple of computers and a bunch of guys, we'd eat crap for a year, millionaires the next year if we did a good film. It's so extraordinary. Instead of crying about getting a job at Disney or "things are falling apart", things the old animators were doing when I was a kid, "it's all crumbling!" It's not crumbling, you're crumbling!
>>150178002When is he going to make a new movie?
>>150178002His generation had the work ethic
>>150178002he is rightwhole heartily rightbut you do need a lot of other things in betweenlike soundtracks, voice actors, a lawyer and self promotion will only go so far depending on location
>>150178002Why is it about making money? Do it just because you want to.
I wish there were more Plymptons in the world of animation, but there aren’t.
>>150180386It becomes about money the moment you actually have to survive and pay bills. I'm convinced anyone who says this dumb shit about "Do it because you like it not for the money!" have never been put into a situation where they have to survive on their own.>inb4 hurdurr real job to support artYou can make way more fucking art if it is your job, that's the goal. Time is more important than money, but you need money to buy yourself time to work on art. This can include hiring other artists to reduce the amount of time it takes to make something or gaining the ability to make something more ambitious.
>>150180619This is all true, but for those who are waiting for the ideal conditions to make their cartoon, it will never come. It's only by building a skillset and having results to show that you can get that life (and even then it's a tiny chance). So in the meantime, make what you want to anyway, cutting corners in ways that you can to make it feasible around your present living situation.
>>150178002It was a different time
