actually that makes sense. Your comment makes sense because animator is not artist but animator is one that brings art to life through animation frames to make that art move when that animator works for company. However, independent animators, I think they got a choice of doing original stuff if wanted but it really depends who that animator work for

*[" You'd think there was something called 'stunt animators ' ,that would agree to this."]

@@sandrahart6195 what do you mean by that sentence?

@@lillyreilly4659" ' Stunt animators ', as in people that would draw hair and clothing animation; but also props like helicopters and/ or special effects ( guns other than hand guns).Animators that might be affiliated with military backgrounds, for example. My statement was intended to be theoretical, that's why I used brackets.

If you EVER manage to make a living on your art through SOLELY original works, then I would be very impressed and envious especially considering most paid artistic opportunities are drawing someone else's stories/characters

@@kyeverbrite you're trying to convince yourself, it seems.

@@ivanmatveyev13 There's not really anything I'm trying to convince? I'm just saying that being against fanart is kind of a very difficult way of trying to make it as a professional, and I'd be really impressed if someone was able to do without it. It's really just adding your own limitation to a way of success and it would be really interesting if you did somehow make it work. It would take lots of word of mouth

@ you are all over the place with your arguments. For the question, if something is artistic valuable or not, money does not play a role, right? You have a big brand, a soulless, mainstream game or series. The medium is visual, the design exist in a visual form, you can just grab it. And you have a fandom, people that have sentimental or nostalgic feelings towards a product. All they want is more slop. But people who are willing to pay some money to an artist, are even more primitive, all they want nsfw stuff. So, no, fanart is cancer. If you go this path, you lose all your artistic integrity. I know a lot such people, they are all miserable, dreams shattered, mental problems, they are drowning in nihilism. They dont care anymore, the stagnate, they start tracing, they adopt the no rules only tools mentality, they start using ai and sell nfts. They are in a state of mind very typical for late capitalism in general. Rat race to the bottom. A sad end to a very banal story. Fan art is artistic poison.

@@ivanmatveyev13 ALL art, so long as it's made by human, is valuable :) -- money or not, fanart or not. Many traditional baroque/renaissance artists made their livings depicting Biblical characters -- one could perhaps consider all of that fanart in a way, because if you think about it, the works' original concept is coming from a certain piece of media! ♥