If it makes you feel any better about Dramatic Shorts, Fuelled has had cinema screenings, though I'm not sure to what extent its creators all profited from it - Fawn Chan got some contract work in 2021, Michelle Hao has since become a storyboard artist at Titmouse and Emily Xu seems to have interned at Disney - while Fossils won an award already (run by Bilibili); its creator Piti Yindee became a colourist at Studio MDHR (Cuphead).
Meanwhile The Mandrake's Quincey Baltes is an animator at Fern, and Charles Brubaker of Fuzzy Princess fame is... contributing to a SpongeBob SquarePants spoof? At least he has Patreon.
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If it makes you feel any better about Dramatic Shorts, Fuelled has had cinema screenings, though I'm not sure to what extent its creators all profited from it - Fawn Chan got some contract work in 2021, Michelle Hao has since become a storyboard artist at Titmouse and Emily Xu seems to have interned at Disney - while Fossils won an award already (run by Bilibili); its creator Piti Yindee became a colourist at Studio MDHR (Cuphead).
Meanwhile The Mandrake's Quincey Baltes is an animator at Fern, and Charles Brubaker of Fuzzy Princess fame is... contributing to a SpongeBob SquarePants spoof? At least he has Patreon.