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Reality is a harsh mistress
I am about 2/3 of the way through the Me, Myself, and Bob book by Phil Vischer, which is the story of the creation of the VeggieTales(tm) cartoon series. And the overriding thing that keeps coming up, in this book and elsewhere, is you gotta have money to start up a production house (yeah not a huge surprise here). An idea and a bunch of guys is great*, but unless your plan is to go bankrupt and/or make something that no one ever sees, funding is critical.
Or is it? Ok ok obviously you have to have some money for tools, but that cost has dropped dramatically (and in some cases, i.e. blender, production quality tools are free) And then there is the internet, a new and exciting way to potentially get your work in front of millions of people. But to actually make money at it? Yeah that would be the tricky part. Still, the internet has the potential to change everything.
* Of course, managing a bunch of creative people can be a real nightmare, but that is a whole different topic.
The internet giveth, and the internet taketh away (Score:2)
By providing an outlet for "free" movies, the internet has really removed the ability to make money from them (apart from advertising.) It's exactly what the RIAA and MPAA are afraid of: people won't pay for content that's otherwise free.
So you look for other ways to make money. Advertise around, on, in, or with your movies. Sell your animating talents to advertisers. Sell your animating talents to web developers. Consider giving away free tastes: a library of animated GIFs with a common purpose: pe