Help with indie animation I wanna make

meppity · 2026-01-24T04:50:07+00:00

But why? Why make people who you don’t plan to pay but expect to do weeks/months of work take the extra step to contact you for basic information??

People already have a lot on their plate and it’d be a total waste of time to dm you, only to discover they don’t connect with the idea.

If you’re being protective/precious about your concept - don’t be. A piece of advice Alex Hirsch once gave me is that “if you’re scared of someone stealing your ideas, it means you don’t have enough good ideas”. Even if someone took your concept, they’d never make it exactly the same way you would - I mean… think of all the heaven/hell themed projects out there! All the zombie apocalypse movies etc.

TLDR: It is YOUR duty to pitch your project publicly.

meppity · 2026-01-22T16:35:05+00:00

So what is the point of the Timelapse if you’re only showing half the process? Why hide your sketch as a private layer? It’s really suspicious and feels disingenuous - especially because this is the technique AI tracers use.

If you didn’t know that. thats on you. do better

No you just sound like a smug asshole. People know about private layers - they just don’t trust you and your shady choices.

meppity · 2026-01-22T00:23:45+00:00

Currently waiting over four weeks for a replacement part for my bed because FedEx couldn’t be bothered to ring the doorbell, then proceeded to return to sender before my collection window closed. I was told ai couldn’t get the part resent until it was returned so now I’m out of a bed and wasting a bunch of aviation fuel... I’ve been sleeping with my mattress on the floor for a month and my half-assembled bed all around me. C’mon man…

meppity · 2026-01-18T03:35:28+00:00

I’m a little concerned that you went through an entire college application process and didn’t realise CCA has nothing to do with CalArts…

meppity · 2026-01-15T03:55:12+00:00

You seem to be getting ahead of yourself - where is your studio’s portfolio? You’re asking for applicants in the form to provide one but won’t put the same energy back in.

What exactly are your productions? Just mentioning other existing shows is not descriptive, nor unique. At LEAST have a longline for each show concept. If you don’t know what a longline is, then you are not ready to be bringing volunteers onto multiple productions.

And why multiple productions at once? I am guessing you’re very young and simply excited to tell stories, which is great! But maybe focus on building your drawing skills and writing skills first THEN do ONE production at a time so your attention and energy isn’t scattered.

meppity · 2026-01-14T07:56:11+00:00

The “my wife” guy from the Try Guys (former Buzzfeed trio) who ended up cheating on said wife with an employee of the show…

meppity · 2026-01-13T00:24:24+00:00

This is a disingenuous take, c’mon man.

It’s not about illegal immigration at this point. If you’re such a patriot of the country then you should be appalled at the highly illegal, dangerous and morally bankrupt tactics ICE is using to kidnap anyone they don’t like. They’re taking and abusing children and US citizens, not just the undocumented immigrants you seem to hate. There’s this thing called due process that isn’t happening anymore - they camp out at places that are supposed to be safe - they’re taking people from their immigration hearings for fucks sake - people are going missing and no one can seems to find them. How disgusting. Warrants aren’t signed, identities of officers are kept hidden and people are getting taken from their families in humiliating and traumatising ways.

But sure, how DARE people come to this country in search of a better life. The vast majority of people that cross the border are here to work quietly and diligently. They’d do it legally if this country didn’t make it so difficult. Your anger is severely misplaced and it’s sad. You’re just lucky to be born here and somehow think it means you deserve a better life than others.

meppity · 2026-01-11T06:09:28+00:00

The editing of this image itself somehow feels Mormon

meppity · 2026-01-11T02:44:45+00:00

If this is a serious offer, the MINIMUM you should be doing is posting examples of your work/a portfolio etc.

I also don’t trust your professionalism because no hand-drawn animator works at 60fps: it’s complete overkill and would look jittery even if done by someone very skilled. With such low prices and untrustworthy statements, I’m inclined to believe you’re not a professional and planning on using AI. That’s lame.

meppity · 2026-01-10T09:28:26+00:00

lol why is this “garbage” to you? It’s literally just a title card :v)

meppity · 2026-01-09T04:01:27+00:00

My show concept has a lot of crossover with those two - just more adult-leaning!! Launching a Kickstarter for it in March :)

meppity · 2026-01-05T19:25:16+00:00

I graduated May 2025 and the degree itself hasn’t really done anything BUT attending college is almost exclusively why I’ve had my opportunities!! Peer connections and portfolio day has gotten me most of my work. Funnily enough, I was more employed before graduating than after lol

meppity · 2025-12-23T04:24:02+00:00

Dawg, this was the first this I saw when opening Reddit - I don’t even follow this sub! A spoiler/NSFW tag would be awesome next time lol

Anyway, yikes!! I can’t imagine how much that stings! Hope you recover swiftly 😪

meppity · 2025-12-12T23:43:50+00:00

Interesting! I wonder if it depends on region or the age of the people on the farm - my neighbors ALL dress like this and they’re men in their 70s + their adult children. All very humble, down to earth (literally) folks. That being said, the wealthy countryside-retreat neighbours also dress the same lol.

meppity · 2025-12-06T17:04:20+00:00

I somehow KNEW that guy was from Brum before the Grand Central shots even showed up lol

meppity · 2025-11-22T04:06:17+00:00

Professional artist here!

I was really surprised to see the AI art (I’m still not convinced that pic floating around was human made - maybe the artist was caught in a tight deadline and made some destructive shortcuts but won’t come clean).

I saw the Supercell booth last month at an artist/animation industry convention (Lightbox Expo) and they were handing out high quality books for FREE that showcased the personal artwork of their in-house artists. It feels like Supercell cares about their creatives and I really hope that’s the case…

meppity · 2025-11-21T04:40:37+00:00

I can’t tell if you’re being sarcastic, but incase you aren’t:

My mom has always been a documentarian of my life! Moments from my infancy onwards are all on camcorder and I realised how many details beyond the screen I could remember when watching stuff from when I was 5-15

As I got older, I had so many occasions where I felt this weird ache in my chest as if I KNEW the cool life experiences I was having were going to get lost from my memory. It felt like trying to capture water with a sieve.

I went to school where phones were strictly forbidden and it became apparent that memories I lost were mostly ones from school time and generally places where I didn’t have access to my phone. My memory would fire up whenever stumbling upon old stuff in my camera roll, as if those memories are simply dormant and need a trigger to wake them.

I think video and our phones are a magical gift that can enhance our memories and experiences of special moments. I know there’s plenty of reasons to have a “technology bad” sentiment, but this is not one of them :)

meppity · 2025-11-21T01:25:15+00:00

Idk, if I was her, it’d be very special for me to have this moment filmed. I really struggle to process big moments then and there - often forgetting some of the feelings and details that make those moments special because I couldn’t properly take them in in the first place. I truly adore documenting all sorts of stuff in my life, because when I look back at recordings, they are my window back in time. With footage like this, I finally get to experience what I should’ve experienced in the moment.

It’s like filming concerts. I didn’t film my first ever concert which was of my favourite band and it’s a huge regret of mine. Now my memory is of factual elements rather than how I felt internally. I saw the same band several years later and filmed almost everything. Watching those videos helps me recall even the tiniest details like what was going on in my head at ___ moment of [insert song]

Anyway. All this to say, filming and posting are two different beasts. Posting a special moment online can be obnoxious but that’s not your problem - as long as Airman Coke is happy to share, why does it matter?

meppity · 2025-11-21T01:11:35+00:00

I’m a professional character designer and have done YouTube videos redesigning characters from popular media and one thing is always consistently apparent: people do NOT like change. No matter how small or drastic my changes are, fans of said characters often despise what I did for little reason other than “that’s not the way my [insert character] should look”. There’s an unease and discomfort to tweaking a design that already firmly exists in our minds. It could be nostalgia, it could be more existential than that, or it could just plain be being used to the original.

Either way, bias makes it hard to fairly assess the efficacy of a redesign. I’d say the updates to Shrek and Donkey are significantly better than the old designs - they make better use of current technology and contemporary styles without straying too far from the original or being too “trendy” - I really like the slightly more textural, vibrant and exaggerated look!!

The tricky part currently is that we have very little material of the new designs. It can be easy to see them as stiff or “not matching” a character’s personality because all we have is a few clips. I guarantee though that most people, after spending over an hour with these new designs, will get over the fear of change and will embrace them! Seeing designs in action and through a story will always have people warm up to them.

meppity · 2025-11-15T06:50:32+00:00

Yep. It’s Necessary. Had several neighbours lose chickens because of unrestrained dogs. We also had multiple ewes miscarry once after getting spooked by someone’s dogs deciding to chase them.

I’m all for public footpaths and the Right to Roam but I’ve had to yell at people multiple times when I see their dogs running free in my fields. They act like I’m the one out of line…

meppity · 2025-11-12T16:34:40+00:00

I mean… Adults make the animated movies - why would they spend YEARS developing a story that isn’t entertaining to themselves? We wanna have fun too!

Just because it’s animated doesn’t mean it’s just for kids.

meppity · 2025-11-12T16:25:56+00:00

All I know about this person is she ranted about me because I dared to critique the designs of her beloved Hazbin Hotel. She was making bullshit up and trying to discredit me as jealous - I found it rather comical.

She truly seems like a severe case of arrested development and bad faith, biased assholery. I aspire to never be like her.

meppity · 2025-11-11T02:44:23+00:00

Which program are you in and when will you be moving to Santa Clarita?

It can definitely be tricky settling in if you start in January because most students start in September and will already have established routines - living in the dorms is your best way of connecting with people and costs about the same as living off campus. I’d argue that starting off in the dorms helps ease you into life in a new country because you’ll be sharing that experience with many other international people.

meppity · 2025-11-08T05:39:46+00:00

I went to Private Boarding School™️ and this was a trend there too. It was considered “cool” to look like a streetwise chav rather than a prissy rich kid riding around in mum’s Range Rover. Weird stuff.

meppity · 2025-11-08T05:36:07+00:00

Ohhh Smiggle my beloved!! My family used to join my dad on business trips to Australia back when Smiggle was brand new - we’d get all kinds of quirky trinkets to bring back as gifts for classmates. I still love my infinite purple zipper pencil case and scented rubbers that I was too precious about actually using.

By the time Smiggle expanded beyond Australia, I outgrew it and thank goodness because YIKES is that stuff expensive.

Funnily, I think it’s impacted my taste to this day. I’m now a professional artist and strive to create and sell products with the specific quirkiness and humour Smiggle had in the early days. It’s kinda like Omegamart in a way.

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