Hours of Work (Extra Credit)

“When you’re in your little room by yourself drawing, it can be depressing: it’s so repetitive, and you never know, drawing after drawing, what will happen when they get on film; you just have to faith in your project, and keep on.” -William Moritz 

Animation is hard. The animation process of an animated film is perhaps the most tedious, because of its repetition with drawing characters, manipulating computer models, or moving puppets over and over again. The general public doesn’t realize how much time is put in to the process. After all, one of the job’s of an animator is to have the outcome on their craft seem effortless, and the result of this happens through hours and hours of work. Being alone while working on an animated film can even be “depressing” as Moritz puts it. It’s often hard to keep pushing yourself to get your work finished. But there is one thing that serves as a main inspiration to complete the work: focusing on the final product. There’s no question it’s going to be a lot of fastidious work. As animator Giancarlo Volpe put it, “I'm going to strap a GoPro to my head while I make cartoons & upon viewing 95% of animation students will drop out of college from boredom.” It’s dangerous when people lose sight of why they love to create cartoons. It can become mundane to draw over and over again for extended time periods. If a person falls into this trap, they ought to question why they got into animation in the first place.