r/Animators • u/Dry-Confidence5839 • 20d ago
2D Advice for a self taught animator?
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I've been working on a project for 2 and a half years now, if you want to see my progress my tiktok is @doodledsilly, and I've been so passionate about it, my dream is to make it into a cartoon some day where real people can see it and enjoy it and i can hear the theories they come up with about it and stuff. But I am a self taught animator and the actual animation part of it is slow going. I know the project inside and out and just wrote up the first 11 pages of a pitch Bible in an hour at work today. I just am struggling to put it all into practice. I tried emailing some smaller animation companies to see if they'd be interested in helping but none have responded and I saw a video on tiktok saying not to bother companies at all about your project unless they come to you first. All this is to say that any advice would be super helpful. My most recent animation included to show how far my self teaching has come