I'm glad we have people like Dokibird and Mori Calliope commissioning animated RUclips Shorts. It seems like a good fit for freelance animators in the VTuber community, and I'd love to see more.
Animation industry has always been very rocky. Most animators (and artists) don't stay in the industry for very long due to how terrible the industry is (Long work hours and low salary). I think if there are more avenue for people to show case their animations and a chance to be professional indie animators, it might bring revival into the industry.
I can see that happening but It's probably gonna take a few more years for the generation that grew up with anime and don't see animation as just kids stuff to have the disposable income to fund Kickstarters for that kind of stuff
8:50 A good example of a fan animator getting hired would be Jules who did a fan animation for the co-optional podcast and was later hired to do it officially and then hired again this year to do the intro animation to Jesse and Dodger's new podcast ruclips.net/video/3xZDGf0kkAI/видео.htmlsi=xLbd997nHHS_UKyk ruclips.net/video/i7FE_db1Zps/видео.html
as an animator, an indie animator takes time to do everything on their own and that's why it gives to studio projects instead to be quick, but expensive
I'm a bit iffy on the idea that you should do free work for a VTuber to be noticed. Not that it's necessarily wrong, but it seems too much like that "work for exposure" controversy in game journalism back in the day. Doing art of popular characters does build more of an audience, it's true. Hell, look at SirGrape's stuff for Juniper Actias. But there's got to be animators VTubers can find and reach out to if they've got a project in mind, without only picking from those that have done free work for them. I guess it's better if that artist has full rights to their own work even if it's fanart of someone else, that's the really important bit.
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I'm glad we have people like Dokibird and Mori Calliope commissioning animated RUclips Shorts. It seems like a good fit for freelance animators in the VTuber community, and I'd love to see more.
Marine from hololive is also famous for putting a lot of the budget into her MVs and it really shows.
That Hitman 2 scene was a good example. Another amazing one is Army of Two's intro where they just pan over murals for dramatic effect.
Animation industry has always been very rocky. Most animators (and artists) don't stay in the industry for very long due to how terrible the industry is (Long work hours and low salary). I think if there are more avenue for people to show case their animations and a chance to be professional indie animators, it might bring revival into the industry.
I can see that happening but It's probably gonna take a few more years for the generation that grew up with anime and don't see animation as just kids stuff to have the disposable income to fund Kickstarters for that kind of stuff
8:50 A good example of a fan animator getting hired would be Jules who did a fan animation for the co-optional podcast and was later hired to do it officially and then hired again this year to do the intro animation to Jesse and Dodger's new podcast
ruclips.net/video/3xZDGf0kkAI/видео.htmlsi=xLbd997nHHS_UKyk
ruclips.net/video/i7FE_db1Zps/видео.html
as an animator, an indie animator takes time to do everything on their own and that's why it gives to studio projects instead to be quick, but expensive
I'm a bit iffy on the idea that you should do free work for a VTuber to be noticed. Not that it's necessarily wrong, but it seems too much like that "work for exposure" controversy in game journalism back in the day. Doing art of popular characters does build more of an audience, it's true. Hell, look at SirGrape's stuff for Juniper Actias. But there's got to be animators VTubers can find and reach out to if they've got a project in mind, without only picking from those that have done free work for them. I guess it's better if that artist has full rights to their own work even if it's fanart of someone else, that's the really important bit.
Cheating by finding the vTuber like Marine that can draw, animate, have enough of a network with professionals, and do it yourself.