Also, tangentially, how do you make money when you're working 15-hour days on your passion project for 4 years straight?
Anyway, I'm really looking forward to watching this! Any Bay Area screenings in the near future?
Also, tangentially, how do you make money when you're working 15-hour days on your passion project for 4 years straight?
Anyway, I'm really looking forward to watching this! Any Bay Area screenings in the near future?
You can definitely kickstart something like this, though. Once you have something great out there, making a trailer and pitching it to the Internet and hoping to get enough money to live off while making it is a possibility.
It is just never a certainty. Any artistic passion project must be done for the final product, not for any hopeful long term fiscal reimbursement for it, because its success is bound to how much the people that come into contact with it agree with your valuation of your own work.
The real question is, how in the 21st century are more people not able to pursue their passions like this.
At the risk of wandering even more off topic, it's pretty dispiriting when you see the leaders of the pixel art community with 20k+ followers begging to do a commission for for 25 bucks.
That's not my definition of success.