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hexgleph · 4 months

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I love Atlas and the Stars sm guys you have no idea. Also the moment Nebula appeared on screen and started talking I dead ass pointed at her and yelled 'JSCHLATT'.

Also check out Atlas and the Stars! It's by mirandamations on YouTube and it's really cool ^^

#deadass this show is right in my alley with the concept i love it #atlas and the stars #quasar aats #nebula aats #aats fanart #indie animation #indie animated show #fanart

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taikk0 · 6 months

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i cant believe they added bonnie fnaf cameo in tadc i hope he never comes back

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farfetchedshow · 21 days

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As a special Friday treat, enjoy the rough animated & fully voiced opening 38 seconds of the Far-Fetched pilot! Quinn loves talking to the camera, even when no one is watching.

Featuring the voices of @JMichaelTatum as Quinn, @ImMrTransistor as Warren & @JLuevanosVA as Kira!

Animation by @saraecardona, boards by @squiderdoodle, background layout by @catherineroars & paint by @Yael_Gilbert & @geordenwhitman!

#far-fetched #farfetchedshow #farfetched #far fetched #far-fetched show #actual post #sesamoid #quinn #kira #warren #indie animation #animation

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sabertoothwalrus · 3 months

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so I’ve been gaining a lot of insight into the animation industry recently, especially in regards to pitching & the creation of new shows. There’s a few ways to go about it.

First, there’s pitching to a studio. When you pitch, it has to be SHORT and CONCISE. You may write a lovingly detailed pitch bible that perfectly breaks down episodes and characterizations, and it might barely even get read. First impressions, first impressions, first impressions!

Most peoples’ first projects don’t get picked up. I’ve heard a few stories from directors that said they tried pitching a story they’d had for years, which got rejected, to then spend a week or even several hours in their car coming up with a new idea, only for that to get greenlit.

But that’s not the end of it. Just because a show gets greenlit, doesn’t mean it will ever get finished. There’s lots of things that can happen. Sometimes, unexpected major world events (like… a global pandemic) can cause projects to get chopped. Sometimes, a CEO change or studio merge means a single person can decide a project “no longer fits with the company’s brand.” Sometimes, the one producer that was rooting for your project gets laid off, and no one else cares enough, so it gets shelved. Sometimes, a streaming service decides to create an animation department, and then they decide they don’t want it anymore. Sometimes, the studio will be simultaneously be developing another project that was too similar to yours and they just didn’t think to tell you until they decide yours is the one with less potential.

On top of that, almost everyone in the industry is saying that “studios just don’t pick up original content anymore.” Studios want something they can franchise, something that will bring in money. New content is risky. Established fanbases are safer.

However! Studios can still be a very good thing. They can be unionized. They can provide better benefits and resources. They can have connections and infrastructure and a larger volume of workers. At a studio, you can divide the labor and produce more in less time. Longer episodes, longer seasons, more consistency in quality.

But this comes with all of the disadvantages of having more in the kitchen.

The alternative is indie animation.

With indie animation, you have total freedom. Full artistic control. It doesn’t even matter if your idea sucks ass, because there’s no one to tell you you can’t make it. You could make it anyway, and you can make it whatever you wanted.

The thing is, making animation is hard. In my production class last semester, the average maximum animation one person could make in that timeframe was 30-60 seconds, and that’s not even counting background design, sound design, or cleanup/color. To make a 5 minute animated short, you should probably have at least 5 people.

And it is CRUCIAL you have a production manager. Ideally someone who’s not already doing art for the project. Most projects without a production manager will fall apart pretty quickly. Once the adrenaline and impulse-fueled motivation wears off, you need someone to hold you accountable and enforce deadlines and proper time management.

Speaking of time, that’s also hard to get. The more people you have, the more likely schedules won’t line up. Most people will have school, or other jobs.

And it costs MONEY!!!!!! You either have everyone work for free and volunteer their time & energy, or you establish a business as a proper indie studio, with people who may or may not have experience on how to handle paying someone else’s salary. And the money has to come from somewhere, so you have to rely on crowdfunding like patreon or kickstarter. (This, by the way, is why I could never fault an indie animation for releasing merch with their pilot.)

And like, maybe you wanna do a series, and all your friends agree to volunteer their labor and time to make the first episode, but it was unanimously not sustainable. Deciding not to produce a second episode until you can raise enough money is not being suddenly greedy, it’s attempting to compensate people rather than expecting them to be continuously taken advantage of.

You have to consider your output as well. There are some outliers like Worthikids, who afaik does all his animation himself, and afaik can work on it full-time thanks to his patreon subscribers. And he still has only produced a total of 30 minutes of animation (for Big Top Burger specifically) in the past 4 years. This is an IMPRESSIVE feat and this is with using a lot of 3D as part of his pipeline!!

Indie animation also has the complication of being more accessible for fandoms. When you’re posting your Official Canon Content on youtube, it doesn’t look a lot different than the fandom-created video essay in the sidebar next to it. What’s canon vs what’s fanon becomes less distinguishable. The boundaries are blurrier. When the creator is just some guy you follow on twitter, it’s easier to prod them for info regarding ships and theories and word-of-god confirmation. They don’t have a PR team or entire international tv networks to appeal to. And this is when creators get frustrated that their fans snowball and turn their creation into something they don’t recognize (and no longer enjoy) anymore.

So it’s tricky.

Thankfully, the threshold to learn animation is fairly low nowadays!! There are TONS of resources online to learn it on your own without forking over a couple hundred thousand to a private art college. There are conventions and discord servers and events where you can network, if you know where to look.

I know it can seem discouraging in the face of capitalism, but I think that’s all the more reason why it’s so important to BE DETERMINED about animation!! We’re already starting to see the beginning of an indie animation boom, and I think it’s a testament to humanity’s desire to tell stories and create art. Even if there’s no financial gain, we do whatever it takes to tell our stories anyway.

#animation #2d animation #indie animation #long post #not 100% sure why I made this post #all this to say: I’m still not sure what direction I want to go towards for my own show #ngl!! i think im confident i could get people to like my show. i think I could find an audience #i have some experience at this point getting people to like my ocs #its just a matter of MAKING the damn thing

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lackadaisycats · 9 months

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Here's the Teaser we made for the Lackadaisy Season 1 BackerKit launch! Thank you so much for the outpouring of support so far! The crew is so excited that we'll be able to bring you more animation. Huge, huge thank you to @fablepaint and the teaser team for everything they did to pull this together.

Background art featured here by Eran Fowler and Addison Bell.

#lackadaisy #lackadaisycats #lackadaisy film #lackadaisy show #lackadaisy season 1 #animation #1920s #cats #rocky rickaby #indie animation #Youtube

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deaddee-anime-brownfanlady · 1 year

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INDIE Animation and other animated works I'm excited to hopefully see in 2023.

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idontevenremember5minutesago · 6 months

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The Amazing Digital Circus has become the most viewed indie animation in less than a month.

Hazbin Hotel is debuting on Amazon Prime with a 2nd season already in the works.

Lackadaisy raised over a million dollars in funding in no time at all.

Helluva Boss keeps pulling in more and more mainstream actors and industry professionals with every episode.

Honestly, we are in the golden era of indie animation and nothing is stopping the momentum! This is so exciting! The indie animation scene is just going to get bigger and better and I can’t wait to see what else is to come!

#who is stopping us right now!#indie animation is here to stay!#hazbin hotel #helluva boss #the amazing digital circus #lackadaisy #long gone gulch #murder drones #in this house we do not compare indie animation views #we respect the hard work and effort of each show #far fetched

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beavillains · 16 days

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I know it's a few days late but,

GO WATCH THE RAMSHAKLE PILOT ON YT

I have ben a fan since the thesis film

#my fanart #artist of tumblr #artists on tumblr #ramshackle #ramshakle show #indie animation #ramshackle fanart #ramshackle skipp #ramshacke vinnie #ramshackle stone #zeddyzi #ramshackle pilot

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alisenokmouse · 12 days

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skipp is my comfort zone

#ramshackle skipp #ramshakle show #ramshakle #ramshackle #skipp ramshackle #ramshackle pilot #ramshackle maggot #indie animation #indie cartoon #fanart #art #ramshackle fanart

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nanamivnemesis · 15 days

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I literally just watched Ramshackle yesterday but I have already have my favorite

I mean when you got a twiggy emo boy who looks like (and is) a victorian peasant with irish accent who cares for his besties and has secret soft spot with a good personality imo + Molotov cocktail, that kinda checks all the boxes for me

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#nanamiknowsnothing #art #artist on tumblr #artist #small artist #tumblr art #ramshackle #stone #stone ramshackle #ramshackle stone #zeddyzi #indie show #indie animation #indie animated series #animation #animated series #fanart #ramshackle fanart

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taikk0 · 6 months

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ms paint gangle

#taikko art #tadc #the amazing digital circus #tadc fanart #tadc art #tadc gangle #gooseworx #gangle tadc #the amazing digital circus gangle #ms paint #ms paint doodle #ms paint art #fanart #art #indie animation #indie show #indie cartoon #indie series #animation

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farfetchedshow · 17 days

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Have you seen the official Far-Fetched poster? Now you have! 🐶🎸

Poster by the incredible @Krossan!

#far-fetched #farfetched #farfetchedshow #far fetched #actual post #far-fetched show #sesamoid #quinn #griff #rue #kira #piper #warren #poster #indie animation

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nameko-nick · 4 months

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I AM ABSOLUTELY LOVING MONKEY WRENCH, I thought the glass breaking gimmicks were super clever in the last episode. It inspired me to try drawing a perspective piece with these two, aren’t they fun!? (Tap the pictures for better quality) Shoutout to @lavafet for helping me figure out the rendering!

#monkey wrench #monkey wrench zeurel #monkey wrench shrike #monkey wrench beebs #monkey wrench bulldog browns #monkey wrench shrike sanchez #indie #indie animation #I love this show so much holy hell

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lackadaisycats · 8 months

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