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Re:About 90% of Animators Quit Their Jobs Within 3 Years by ransom1538 on Monday August 09, 2021 @12:00AM (#28112629)
"Cool sounding jobs are competitive"

Also! The problem with Animators is projects being canceled. Animation takes forever. A project getting cut a year in is normal. That takes a huge toll on you mentally. THEN, you have the art experience problem. Do your art skills scale with time? I bet not.

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Re:About 90% of Animators Quit Their Jobs Within 3 Years by ornornor on Monday August 09, 2021 @10:45AM (#28117553)
> Do your art skills scale with time? I bet not.

I’m not an artist in any way, but I would think it does?

The more you do something (anything), the better you get at it. Why would art be different?

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Re:About 90% of Animators Quit Their Jobs Within 3 Years by ransom1538 on Monday August 09, 2021 @11:20AM (#28118025)
Diminishing returns. Example try doing Golf, tennis, etc. IMHO you wont be any better at it in 10 years vs 20 years. Most likely you will be worse. This is why 16 year olds win Wimbledon. Experience matters in the beginning, but if you took your animations from year 10 to year 20 - you wouldn't see a difference. EG. Try looking at Rembrandts over time. Do they get better? No.

OTOH there are huge differences in a lawyer with 10 vs 20 years experience. Because experience matters.

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Re:About 90% of Animators Quit Their Jobs Within 3 Years by Lio on Monday August 09, 2021 @03:23AM (#28113556)
Learning to do new things is fun.

Doing them the same over and over becomes a tedious chore.

That’s got to be part of the reason for churn in software libraries and frameworks.

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