But even success can bring problems - late nights, too many weekends, stress and burnout. How does an animator thrive in the industry over the long haul. The answer is to nurture your own projects and ideas, make sure your own creative flame is burning.
Personal Projects
The downside of personal projects is that they tend not to pay, but the upside is that you can do whatever you like. Creative freedom comes without a paymaster; you are free to develop your ideas and do whatever you like. Short films, paintings, even holiday sketches can recharge your creative energies. Most artists worth the name have some kind of personal work going on in the background. If it is good, you might be able to generate some sales, or even pitch it as an idea for a new studio project.
Animation & Cartoons
Although, I suppose, as a paid gig, it doesn't really quite qualify as a truly personal project, except inasmuch as the characters are all my own creation, my personal work - my babies if you will - and no-one (not even the newspaper) tells me what to do.
The newspaper does, of course, sometimes tell me what not to do. In which case, of course, I send them something else. But that's just life in the commercial world.
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