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Is it just me or is it harder to "make it" for cartoonists and animators these days?

Jamesmac

I've been watching a lot of documentaries about animated films and comic books lately and one thing I've noticed is that for so many talented people back then, all they had to do was prove they could draw and some big studio executive or someone would notice them and be like "hey, wanna come work on this thing we've got?". It used to be so easy, all you had to do was show some people you could draw and they'd be thrilled for you to join them.

And yet these days, it seems none of the major studios and companies are looking for new, fresh talent anymore. Nowadays it seems all the aspiring artists are forced to go indie all while the old heavy hitters are also leaving the big studios to go indie too... are TV and theatre animation and the big comic book publishers just letting themselves die or something? The rise of AI is also taking valuable opportunities away from talented human artists too, as well.

It's kinda depressing really. Indie works are rising up and being recognised, but at what cost?

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  • Do you think that there is a lot of money made from comics still? Outside of conventions of collectors events I rarely see much of the printed versions any more and I know there are many places to get the comics free online from all the big names so I wonder if they are still the money maker they used to be.

    it is also far too easy to feed old comics into an AI engine and tell it to create the pictures for a new story and to get surprisingly adequate results. I wonder if the studios are realising this and working on narrowing their talent pool to more AI feeders / updaters and having a small pool of the old talents only.

    Even designing a new character is so easy with some AI now that it can be hard to justify paying someone to actually draw it when you can have it generated and tweaked, ready to create a story in 10 minutes.

    It is depressing and I see this repeated across so much of the creative industry now.

    Are there any other creative outlets that you could look into that cannot be replaced by AI? Sculpture perhaps?

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  • Do you think that there is a lot of money made from comics still? Outside of conventions of collectors events I rarely see much of the printed versions any more and I know there are many places to get the comics free online from all the big names so I wonder if they are still the money maker they used to be.

    it is also far too easy to feed old comics into an AI engine and tell it to create the pictures for a new story and to get surprisingly adequate results. I wonder if the studios are realising this and working on narrowing their talent pool to more AI feeders / updaters and having a small pool of the old talents only.

    Even designing a new character is so easy with some AI now that it can be hard to justify paying someone to actually draw it when you can have it generated and tweaked, ready to create a story in 10 minutes.

    It is depressing and I see this repeated across so much of the creative industry now.

    Are there any other creative outlets that you could look into that cannot be replaced by AI? Sculpture perhaps?

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