When Being A Director Isn’t Enough of An Animation Job

Are you a successful animation director who makes great films that appear in film festivals? Well, here’s some stupid advice from Nick Animation’s Twitter account:

One of the fastest ways to get an #animation job: Make a great film (4 min max), get it into film festivals and then online. #Tuesday2Cents

— Nick Animation (@NickAnimation) November 10, 2015

Telling someone that a good way of landing an animation job is to become a film director is like telling a medical student that a good way of getting a nursing job is to become a surgeon. If you’re a director, then you’ve already discovered the power of expressing your own ideas and vision through animation — and you’ve got the best animation job in the world; the last thing you should need — or want — is an “animation job” at Nick.