Where's the money in (making) anime

HELLFIRE · Post by **HELLFIRE** » Tue Nov 23, 2004 10:43 am

Article

Mirrors the joke over here about rich music industry, poor starving musician.
The grass on the other side of the fence....

Regards

Arx-7 Arbalest · Post by **Arx-7 Arbalest** » Tue Nov 23, 2004 11:56 pm

well if i m an artist i dun care what the hell they pay me for my work... i just want the ppl to like it.... so i hope it is the same for these anime creators...

Jae · Post by **Jae** » Wed Nov 24, 2004 12:44 am

Arx-7 Arbalest wrote:so i hope it is the same for these anime creators...

It might be, 'cept fan appreciation doesn't fill the tummy or pay the rent.

Hordes of people may love what you do, but that doesn't give you what you need to live.
(note too, as a fan you love a series and perhaps the top names that were involved in making it. You don't know who any of the people who drew or painted the cels are, except perhaps the key animator of the project if you're into knowing such things.)

Back to the article- traditional cel animation is going away, anyway.
Not that it doesn't suck in a way, for the workers and for fans in a sense, but I doubt it'll be the end of anime as we know it. There are many series every year that no longer use painted cels and the tweener pencil work already often gets outsourced......

But I do think that it sucks that it has always been an under-appreciated and under-rewarded job to be a cel animator, even master animators. Clearly the better paying career is in being at the top of the chain producing gobs of plastic collectible crap

HELLFIRE · Post by **HELLFIRE** » Wed Nov 24, 2004 8:51 am

So true, so true.

Actually why I found the article interesting was because it was brought up
to rebutt against the 'myth' buying anime DVDs supports the animators.
Mind you, I find that no excuse to go out and not pay for my anime...

@Arbalest
I agree with ya completely, but to bastardize a REALLY good quote: [adoration]
will neither fill my belly nor [put gas in my car]

Regards

Jae · Post by **Jae** » Wed Nov 24, 2004 9:06 pm

HELLFIRE wrote: the 'myth' buying anime DVDs supports the animators.

Err... but it does. Just not impressively

(Animate for little... or animate for nothing... Hmmmm....)

Post by **Taurec** » Wed Nov 24, 2004 9:15 pm

I think those cel animator should consider a other business strategy.

maybe Shinkai Makoto, had a better deal.