>>104710040Tbh I don’t even blame him that much. In an ideal world you have fresh young animators, say, teens, college aged, making free shit because they’re young and dumb and don’t need to make dough. Their style is always going to be rough and unfinished. Then you have college kids, plus animation students, plus young adults. These guys all get paid for their work, whether as assistants, or working on cheap throwaway projects they have a lot of creative freedom over, or working on their own projects. The important thing is that they get paid for what they do, because that nets the interest needed to breed competition, self-improvement, genuine drive. These guys are the ones that help nurture the youngins until they have the seniority to help lead and make the big animation projects of the day, which inspire the youth, starting the cycle all over again.
Newgrounds and Youtube broke the cycle by removing that middle ground for artists starting to mature, then Nick and CN forced the next generation, mainly webcomic artists and inexperienced web animators, to take the mantle, while the actual animators more or less get shafted and either grow up and get real jobs like professional youtube gaming or wade in the kiddie pool for the next decade.
