Re:Anime is booming, so why are animators living in poverty?
by neonological on Friday February 26, 2021 @03:56PM
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It’s not that cherry picky. There’s thousands of scenes like the one I posted that require raw skill. Yes the majority of anime is mouth flapping but every episode usually contains at least one or two or more action scenes where real skill is involved.
If anything the people who do these scenes which I’m assuming is the same people who do the mouth flapping requires raw skill that is not easy to come by.
If there is a role for a low skill artist that exclusively does mouth flapping then yes it’s an oversupply side issue for those people, but it does not explain the low wage of the person who does the action scenes.
The vast majority of anime is static backgrounds with slow pans and static characters with mouth flaps. The backgrounds and characters often get outsourced and the studio just adds facial features and mouth flaps.