I make video games and am an animator so like %90 of everything I do is commonly misunderstood to the point of having a hard time finding a job that will even pay me to people wishing I was horribly mutilated and dead. Which has happened a number of times, but anyway:
- Art should be done for free because it's fun.
- Art should be made fast because it's all doodles anyways.
- If you can't doodle a perfectly realistic drawing in a couple of minutes you're a bad artist. (And don't deserve to be paid. I'll still use it though)
- Any art that isnt realistic or doesn't conform to realistic standards is low skill bad art.
- Thanks to computers giving people the ability to cycle frame by frame now you get amazing stuff like: Animators that rely on inbetween frames are lazy or bad artists.
- Actually, animators that rely on any of the fundamentals of animation are bad artists who are trying to cover up the fact that they don't know how to draw realistically or draw smooth inbetweens.
- Modern 2D Animation should be drawn at 60fps because we have the "technology now" (Also all hand drawn with no short cuts, and highly detailed, of course)
- Anime is harder to draw than western animation, so western animators are less skilled. Without taking into account budgets, frame rates, target audience, etc. etc. (Though overall Japanese animators are paid far, far less than they should be among other abuses)
- Games and animation are bad because the artists who made them are malicious, evil or greedy and purposely wanted to slight you.
- Games and animation are bad because the artists who made them are lazy or unskilled.
- Games and animation are not bad because the people with the money refused to give the artists the time or money to complete a competent product despite the artists constantly bringing up how things will go wrong and look like crap.
- Achieveing 60fps comes at no consequence or significant loss of (sometimes the more interesting) content from the game. Often due to the point above.
- The unskilled artists are the ones making all the bad visual decisions and not company higher-ups who believes everything I listed above.
- Actually if you want to get into misconceptions of art with regards to the money people you get doozys like "Don't use purple because it makes you gay".
But yeah, there's a lot more but I'm tired.
