ABSTRACT
Short-form animation is an art form, and it should be respected as such; it’s not just, as so many people consider it to be, a stepping-stone onto bigger and better things, especially not for animation. Since then, Skwigly has grown to include regular written features, a long-running podcast series featuring an assortment of guests from all imaginable manner of animation backgrounds, microdocumentaries, not-so-micro-documentaries, specially curated animation screenings, and a great deal more. The potential of animation has barely been tapped. In the author experience, people tend to see animation as just a less expensive version of live action, like in order for a form to morph and change, it has to be written into the script as a drug-trip scene or something. The thing is, the nature of animation has changed—as time’s gone by, animation has become very democratized, and everybody can do it, where as before, it would be a select few who had all the resources and equipment.
