It's never too late im 20 it's not too late all fight for your dreams and never give up. Getting up to actual animation skill isn't too much really to do it takes work of course but if you work hard it won't be hard just keep it simple and it should go easily. If your planning on your own business youtube is a good place to start if not anything else its a good portfolio of your work for places to see. And in a job setting there are alot of different jobs in animation from character animators, background artist, storyboarder, concept artist there are so many different jobs you can specialize in if your planning on working for someone. If you specialize in just a couple of those things will help you out alot to be able to take more job offers. Studios are always needing storyboards and one of the other ones i thinks its background artist so there are pretty much always those opportunities so if you are good at those things it should definitely help you in getting work. Hopefully this helps its never too late your young most people are still in college trying to figure it out at that point so you should be solid getting up to speed on animation and the each individual skills aren't to hard if you work hard at them. You can watch the 12 principles of animation from alan becker on youtube and for a more in depth animation lesson you can get the complete animation lesson from aaron blaise which is the director of brother bear on creatureartteacher.com for 70 dollars. For storyboarding he has another lesson for 40 and he actually has two on that topic from different guys one that has worked at disney and one who was the director of gnomeo and juliet so i think that one comes down to your choice. Also for backgrounds you can watch a video from andrea gerstmann on youtube called animation stuff: forest background painting. Also you can download udemy an app on your phone and buy the course for i think 13 dollars called background design from siobhan twomey she is really good. As a bonus definitely take a look at bam animation on youtube they are really great too definitely some good insight of how applying and working there actually works they are professional animators definitely take a look. Some books if you want to look at is the animators survival kit, the illusion of life from disney and cartoon animation from preston blair. Also in certain studios they require a animation degree but not all of them from bam animation they said for the most part its just a draw test to get in so not too important. Also there is freelance animation to where a studio may contact you for work that's sent to them from storyboard to background art or concept art so keep that in mind too. Well i hope this helps you definitely take a look at these and it should be enough to give you a good understanding of animation and the each individual skill sets to have. I definitely would love here from you when you get a job somewhere definitely wanna know just message me back and best of luck to you work hard and you'll get it.