New Goal
I'm making an animated short film with pencil and paper!
I don't actually like the look of digital animation as much anymore, or god forbid rigged animation, so this is something I want to spend a LOT of time on. I might use digital editing here and there, but that's because I don't have a 35mm camera. The main animation is going to be done with real pencil and paper.
Adobe Animate nearly getting destroyed made me realize that the overreliance on software in animation could pretty much spell doom if ANY one animation tool decided they could cut features to add AI, or even cut the software entirely. King Of The Hill animators for the new season said that they "don't have the technology" to do traditional animation, but I think that's because the materials got more expensive as time went on, and we're running out of animators that can actually do traditional animation.
Also, if RAM is getting more expensive because the only company that made RAM stopped making it, then that means if the rest follow suit it'll actually be more expensive to do digital animation. And Windows could easily drop an update that destroys a lot of the 32-bit software that animators still use. It happened on Mac computers, that and the new chips that make a lot of older softwares incompatible.
The only solution I can think of is learning to do it on pencil and paper, because I believe that the fate of animation could be doomed if we forget how to do basic flip books. Hell, some of these newer SCAD graduates can't even draw without a stabilizer.
I'll probably need better voice actors though.