Anime is booming, so why are animators living in poverty?

Re:Anime is booming, so why are animators living in poverty? by slowmovintarget on Friday February 26, 2021 @11:01AM (#26276110)

Look into Jonathan Blow's work. He doesn't churn out garbage code. He cares about his craft and that includes artisanship in the games he builds.

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Re:Anime is booming, so why are animators living in poverty? by smrq on Friday February 26, 2021 @11:07AM (#26276198)

With all due respect to Jon Blow (and I respect him a whole lot!)-- I don't think he'd be able to do what he does if he didn't make a boatload of money off of Braid.

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Re:Anime is booming, so why are animators living in poverty? by slifin on Friday February 26, 2021 @11:26AM (#26276465)

Braid itself was novel because it took game state and made it immutable, immutability often needs a lot of consideration

This is definitely speculation on my part but maybe he didn't become a coder focused on his craft because of the finances afforded to him from Braid, maybe he created Braid a quality game because he was a coder focused on his craft?

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Re:Anime is booming, so why are animators living in poverty? by gameman144 on Friday February 26, 2021 @11:58AM (#26276895)

But he made a boatload off of Braid after he coded it. Not sure I understand this point.

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Re:Anime is booming, so why are animators living in poverty? by sjtindell on Friday February 26, 2021 @12:05PM (#26277006)

To me Braid was literally the first example of him doing what he does.

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Re:Anime is booming, so why are animators living in poverty? by kayamon on Saturday February 27, 2021 @02:18AM (#26283307)

You say he doesn't write garbage code, yet none of his source code has been released so you've never seen it. How do you know if it's good code or not?

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