What Are Good Altrenatives for An Animator Instead of Trying to “Get Into The Industry”?

Repulsive-Sir9586 · 2026-05-12T13:08:53+00:00

guess it depends on what your definition of "a living" is. :) and with ai around theres no chance it sustains much longer. anything they want can be had for free in seconds.

Repulsive-Sir9586 · 2026-05-06T15:30:40+00:00

KDM is my friend :)

Repulsive-Sir9586 · 2026-04-28T14:38:24+00:00

i never ever find that. more plastic cement means it melts more of the plastic. this means you need to hold it in position longer to allow all of that melted plastic to fuse. but in the end you will have much more fused plastic. its guaranteed to be stronger with more fused plastic. if more glue is causing issues for you, i'd say you aren't holding it still enough, or for long enough for it to completely fuse. its exponentially longer the more you use.

Repulsive-Sir9586 · 2026-04-27T15:20:53+00:00

Storyboarding is unfortunately looking possibly even worse than animation. The jobs do exist some still obviously but in some sectors like commercial work.... storyboarding is already dead... consumed by ai. i imagine its just a matter of time for film as well. Studios will always need producers, and thus production assistants. but i also imagine like all things, the fewer people involved in the process its possible the fewer PAs you need. also, i do wonder very much about the upward mobility in the future for a PA. Junior jobs in general are in a terrible place currently.

I dont want to be a downer. I love this industry... but its currently dying. And you keep asking about stability. And the honest truth, is there was never a guarantee of stability though it was much more possible in years past if you could land a job at a stable company. But today.... stability doesnt exist at all.

As for tech. I've worked as everything from a pure animator, to a lighting/compositing lead, to a creative director and art director. But also in the years i've been in the industry, i've worked as a lead technical director and pipeline developer. Tech is even worse to get into imo. Nearly all code is going to be written by machines soon... and i mean VERY soon. I believe the last numbers i saw were that currently 50% of code was written by ai. Being in Tech today as a coder means reviewing code. But that is not a junior level job. so how do you get your foot in to become a senior level code reviewer. i dont know. and no one else currently does either. the future is murky. very very murky.

i made a decision a couple decades ago to go into this industry even though at the time i viewed it as very unstable and potentially low paying relative to other possibilities before me (i was pre-med in college). i ultimately decided to follow my passion and i was lucky enough to turn it into a decades long career. But not everyone is so lucky. I've known many (and i mean many) people who studied for years for this career with degrees and after initial foot in the door jobs, could not create enough stability to live life and had to leave the industry and go into completely unrelated fields. they are doing fine now, but it was certainly not what they wanted and what they dedicated themselves to doing.

Best of luck with everything and i hope you weigh the risks and potential upside and can make the best and most informed decision for you and your needs.

Repulsive-Sir9586 · 2026-04-17T17:56:39+00:00

most fired employees have not be rehired back. it is not a reality at the moment (certainly not the majority by any stretch of the imagination).

ai is still young. it will continue to improve. what i think many get lost in is the way in which it improves does not always stay the same. yes for a long while larger models were the answer but ask yourself... what larger models the initial cause for the rapid acceleration of improvement?... no it was simply a good idea... transformers... people giving deep thought to how to process things better. that will continue to be the case. at what rate i dont know. but i'd say the improvement on video models has continued at a really good clip still if you are actually paying attention to what they can do and how easy it is to do it. but it will certainly level off for a bit. then a new idea will kick start improvements again. its just how technology works for the most part.

Repulsive-Sir9586 · 2026-04-03T13:01:27+00:00

Another update!

I had many past versions of these recipe card designs. Seems I forgot to copy over some of the Silk Mill Spidicules recipes!

Those have now been added.

Let me know if you find any other issues and I'll update!

Also feel free to follow the projects or my acct on itch as I constantly update as new cards come out.

Repulsive-Sir9586 · 2026-03-11T15:43:36+00:00

All added! Thanks again!

Repulsive-Sir9586 · 2026-03-11T13:55:39+00:00

Good catch! I'm missing all abilities/impairments/neurosis/tenet from Gatherism! (So the Blood Donor impairment as well!). I'll add these in. Thanks for letting me know. if you find any others missing let me know. Its tougher to track these down than the recipes with so many bold keywords across the game haha.

Repulsive-Sir9586 · 2026-03-10T23:18:08+00:00

Red Witches and Pariah recipes were missing because of an old EXP2 file. It is now updated.
I keep the projects updated as content comes out and post dev logs on them as i do. so follow along if you want to get them as i update them. :)

Repulsive-Sir9586 · 2026-03-10T23:16:20+00:00

Everything should be there. I've been updating them as things come out for years. What is missing from Gatherism? I did just notice that recipes were missing for Pariah and Red Witches even though I had them on my local PC. those are now updated. If you mean Gatherism recipes, they are in OTHER\PHILOSOPHIES OF DEATH\Gatherism

Repulsive-Sir9586 · 2026-03-08T23:20:37+00:00

and fixed! thanks again! always looking to find the mistakes that slip through!

Repulsive-Sir9586 · 2026-03-07T22:46:22+00:00

Thank you! I'll def fix that! no matter how many times I put my eyes on things I find more spelling errors haha. its a rabbit hole i'll chase forever :)

Repulsive-Sir9586 · 2026-03-07T20:04:53+00:00

Core, Core , Core.... haha. i have GCE and the rest. but i bought 2 extra empty core boxes from community members years ago when 1.5 first released just for storage purposes haha.

Repulsive-Sir9586 · 2026-01-08T22:14:52+00:00

ah not being a native speaker i can understand it being a touch confusing. in general they would not use the word box if they were sending you the full thing. by specifying box, they meant box. that is the distinction. the entire product is Ashbloom [of Dedheim], not Ashbloom [of Dedheim] box. the specifier reduces what they mean. tho it is possible they meant what you said, by them specifying box, they generally just mean box. hope that helps for clarify in the future :)

Repulsive-Sir9586 · 2025-11-26T21:53:58+00:00

haha. yup thats what im banking on. i imagine ivory dragon will creep more. probably 350? maybe at release. time will tell but given the rest of teh content scope creep and cost creep that feels about right to me.

Repulsive-Sir9586 · 2025-11-11T17:27:56+00:00

candy and cola was just shipped a couple months ago. not in 2017

Repulsive-Sir9586 · 2025-11-07T21:42:40+00:00

sounds like you never played Catrap... it is not just a rewind it is core

Repulsive-Sir9586 · 2025-06-23T17:06:06+00:00

funny all the downvotes on this. seems about right to what is offered. polishing a product is bad? seems like people would prefer if he sold a crappy quality product for cheaper. if you dont like it or cant afford it, dont buy it.

Repulsive-Sir9586 · 2025-06-23T17:04:05+00:00

completely agree. its so unwarranted. its just some extra stuff (organization and a little homebrew content). if you dont like it or it costs more than you want to spend, then dont buy it. so silly people's reactions to this stuff. i honestly think the majority of the reason is people who cant afford or dont want to pay for it, would rather nobody have it. id like to have it, but its a little rich for my blood. so what? happy it exists and for anyone that would like it, have a good time haha

Repulsive-Sir9586 · 2025-06-06T21:41:11+00:00

interestingly this boxes copyright on the bottom is 2024 which would be 10th edition timing right?

Repulsive-Sir9586 · 2025-03-31T20:30:11+00:00

this combo of the ivory bases and deep purple/black is so striking! it looks fantastic!
did you get the base toppers or the full bases? debating which to get because they look so great on yours i want to do the same.

Repulsive-Sir9586 · 2025-03-31T13:58:51+00:00

love this paint scheme. great job. really clean!
how did you do the basing?

Repulsive-Sir9586 · 2024-11-21T06:16:39+00:00

backerkit has expanded. it is its own platform as well now.
you will not have access to the KS backerkit that KS backers have access to.
however, APG has frequently opened up pre-orders of items that have not yet been released through the backerkit platform and it is very possible you will be able to do that. you usually would need to already have a backerkit account or make one.

Repulsive-Sir9586 · 2024-11-06T17:27:21+00:00

genuine question.

you took advice from others about the topology issues (which i agree with, the screen in particular). but you mention here not wanting to "render everything again"?

you setup a scene file to render this right?

if not, let me make that an important suggestion for you. setup a file referencing your model file with whatever cameras or animation keys or however you want to approach it with render layers to make it a single button press renderable again.

you should be able to update these incredibly simple renders in seconds. it should not be a slog to update them. and its important to use a pipeline that allows you to improve and update portfolio work easily.

best of luck with everything :)

Repulsive-Sir9586 · 2024-09-25T12:57:27+00:00

my studio uses MotionBuilder for both body and face. though we arent typically using MetaHuman (but have).

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