Simple analysis, don't get me wrong, I really don't put on airs.
Film and television animation is actually a chore. I can understand that you have chosen a career as a painter. In fact, domestic animation production is rarely hand-painted, especially real-time CG technology is so fragrant, so many animations will adopt methods with reasonable cost, stronger creative expression and smooth expression. So once, hand-drawn animation felt a little abandoned. Don't be afraid. Studio Ghibli insists on hand-painted creation, and going to Japan is not a bad thing.
For the original design of characters, not only imagination is needed, but also a strong painting level is needed. Therefore, the threshold of this major is mostly limited to the extent that art students can enter, and very few universities study film and television animation. This major is thankless, not to mention the employment prospects. The courses alone are varied, and the pressure of various software exams is even greater. 3d, graphics and algorithms are a mess. No one can just say that you can graduate with flash. Do not believe, the college entrance examination results are still there.
So it's great to do movie animation first, but the things behind it are more likely to make people crazy. In fact, anyone who knows the history of animation development knows that China and Japan used to lose money in the animation industry. Early China was fine, and the Shanghai Art Studio built countless people's childhood on the basis of dead wages. In the sixties and seventies of last century, investors didn't understand why it took so much money to draw a few sheets of paper, so the lack of funds, coupled with the low popularization efficiency of TV sets, was moving.
However, there are three great figures in Japan: Osamu Tezuka, Toriyama Akira and Miyazaki Hayao. Their representative works are Astro Boy, Dragon Ball and Barabara ... They have done three major events respectively-diversified and continuous broadcast of TV animation, the first TV animation being shown to the east, and the establishment of Studio Ghibli. Unfortunately, China lacks such top figures and large animation production companies.
The good news is that animation in China is booming now, and animated films have made extraordinary achievements. People who really love animation, if they are not forced to devote themselves to this cause by their livelihood, will certainly create new legends in the future, and many animation practitioners will eventually lose to pressure and unfair industries. Under the general trend of film and television commercialization, it is even more difficult to create animations that are satisfactory to both yourself and the audience.