when I was a child and my parents told me how animation was created, my first thought was (less eloquently) "that is an unfathomable amount of effort to put in" and I think this was one of my most accurate childhood estimations
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in reply to @nex3's post:
unfortunately i no longer remember the exact movie but i remember as a kid watching an animated character put down a plate & it made a "putting down a plate" sound & i spontaneously realised someone had to put that sound in there on purpose & that was also true of every other thing in the movie & i would describe the full body chill i experienced trying to imagine the scope of that work as something genuinely akin to existential dread
yeah it's unimaginable, and it's kind of tragic that it will never exist in that way as a major art form again
I have similar thoughts when I read a comic book or graphic novel. Like, I just read that page in…five seconds? How long did they spend drawing it?
The episode of Rocko's Modern Life where they make a cartoon was how I found that out, and they manage to undersell the amount of laborious misery it actually is, but I had the exact same thought!
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