Hey I think everybody has seen the pilot by now. I worked on it and was carefully excited about it, now I am glad it's getting a lot of attention. Hoever I have a little bitter resentment on my involvement and feel like I should get this pettiness out of my chest.

It's kind of a stupid story so I think it's worth telling. I was contacted directly by the studio that handled the animation and was quite flattered to be invited to such a cool project, they showed me the animatic and set (what at the time seemed to me like) reasonable rates (more on that some other time). It seemed like a breath of fresh air in terms of animation, I've had been working on a pre-school show at the time and was fucking sick of it.

Pibby seemed like a refreshing project that would reinvigorate my will to animate and maybe even get me some really nice shots for my demo.

Imagine my disappointment when I was handed only the first 4 shots... yeah, the ones that are meant to look exactly like a preschool show just as limited as the one I was working on...

It's been almost 2 years since, and I still struggle to get excited about new projects. Even cool ones.

Is this how animators get jaded?