Thats the one where the hotdog says frick and shiitake mushrooms right?

You kind of missed the point of my video. It doesn't really sound like you appreciate art, but see it more as a product. Which is sort of the antithesis of art. Animation should made for oneself first and foremost. While it is marketed as a product for people to consume, you'd be naive and foolish to think animation is strictly for money, skill, whatever. You should just be animating strictly for yourself. If you work strictly on it as a product, you'll get stunlocked and probably never post anything because youre creating strictly for someone elses response and not your own enjoyment, personal growth whatever. There is no objective measuring stick. There is no good, better, best. Unless you look at it as a product to consume. which is icky. everything just sort of "is" in the medium of animation and art itself. Marc M animations are infinitely more popular than something like a ryan larkin piece. But that doesn't decrease the value of the ryan larkin piece, nor does it mean "c'mon scoob" isn't a real piece of animation. The only reason I'm replying to this is so other people don't fall into this trap of thinking of animation/art as a product. If you really want to get into animation, be comfortable with who you are and make it for you. Don't make it for unkie chorizo's approval, cause I don't matter. Make it for your own approval.

@@elhombrechorizo You had me until the last line! I was really touched that you took the time to write to me. Don't undo all that good by saying you were only writing it for the peanut gallery. I think your video was very thought provoking and had a lot of good points. I would have written more articulately what I was thinking about but I can never gauge what is considered "too much" in a YT comment. I agree with the two main things you said in your response to me (as I understood them). Creating animation, or any art, is a personal experience and journey which is enormously rewarding and character building, regardless of how good you are at it. Creating art just for money leads to all the problems you mentioned (always trying to make what you think "they" want and not using your medium as a tool for growth and expression, and it's icky!). That being said, I think you might have missed my point. I was thinking about craft. Like, for example, Renaissance painting. They (re)discovered and perfected a trove of techniques, like linear and aerial perspective, sfumato, and chiaroscuro, plus all the various elements of composition. They were very technical and even mathematical. There is no question who were the Renaissance Masters and who weren't, and it had nothing to do with how much money they made (although often, as the case was, the masters got the big commissions, but not always, like El Greco, who died poor). It wasn't until the 20th century when artistic movements splintered and it was no longer about the craft but about a means of expression, even to the point where there was no craft but just literally throwing paint at a canvas. On one hand, that was awesome because it opened art up to the world as a thing you could do to express yourself. I love it. But even today, you can see some people just understand "the fundamentals" better than others. We aren't renaissance artists, but we have form, value, and anatomy. The more one masters these principals, the better an artist they are. Let me be clear, that need not take away at all from the value of one's art as a form for their own self-expression. But there is such a thing as a better draftsman, or a better animator: just read Richard Williams, the way he talks about learning from the old masters (and he wasn't chasing the money, he was driven to master the art form). All us artists are on an art journey, which is propelled forward by our never being satisfied with what we are capable of, knowing we can do better. Yet we will only have the motivation to continue if we can also draw joy and satisfaction at our current best attempts.