Chris, the fact you are still asking questions means you are still growing. If you don't want more, you are dead. It's the ultimate sin 'wanna', and the ultimate motivation. Besides I know all this brings a nasty grin to your pitiful face, perhaps a good swift kick will get you rolling down the hill again. Keep asking questions and continue writing them down, you might actually stumble across a gem or two for all to share. Lunch?

Chris , you ask too many questions :) No matter what you do you never belong to animation. You can work within it , work on it , comment on it and swim through it and still not belong to . Like live action actors or crews we are doomed to be out of it eventually. Creativity though is never ending and so whatever form it takes you will always be alive. Enjoy.

Hallelujah!

Pimp-Baby, Your rant reminds me of a saying on a redneck hat,that said: 'PARDON ME-LADY,BUT I'M NOT ONE OF THOSE GUYS WHO GIVEs A SHIT'. You also reflected on the reasons why you are (still) in animation,even though you have accomplished much. This is interesting,since my very same thoughts were reflected in my own recent-'look-back' and (about) just why I love animation and am still(at 65 years-young) fooling around with toon character design,stories for animation and graphics,related to cartoons. Last week,An older 70 year old(we are both divorced-bachelors) friend,who chums around with me,but has no interest in animation,asked me ; 'just what keeps me going?",since we both know I have only a 'snowballs-chance -in hell' of ever getting 'lucky' and living long enough to ever- see my ideas-concepts animated,on the big screen. Herez what I told him: "don't you get-it, I am having the time of my life,creating,writing,promoting,marketing my concept,but what really keeps me going,is that I REALLY DON'T GIVE A FUCK'!" To me, it keeps me young as a seven year old and I can remember when I (was) a seven years old,in the cold-bitter Eau Claire,wisconsin winter,taking my sled out at night,in a blizzard,because I was a tough little 'trader'-business man,and my parents thought i was crazy,in sub zero weather, going from house to house,trading COMIC BOOKS...with all my friends.I had all the best; captain marvels,ally oop,popeye,superman,archie,major hoople,katz and jammer kids and that snow repelling cardboard box contained 100 or so comic books,which allowed me to 'trade-up'...I WAS THE KING!! Time...means nothing when you are into comic books-cartoons,and at my age,to-again, have the very Privlege...to be what I call ;"a cartoonist by default" and connect to all the awsome new friends like ...AWN-YOU-PIMP,Amid amidi, Chris Panzer,Don S. ,etc. and many others is JOY-reward-enough! BTW...I have developed a story-line for television- idea about kids skipping stones,using my own-created-stone-faced characters,from those dayz in Wisconsin,living nearby the Chippewa river,which came directly from my childhood experiences! There IS no-end-Chris,unless YOU decide to 'call it quits' because you (think) you have run out of new adventures? NAHH....you will always want to see the next character+ flick-indie because you know...WE are out-there!