Animation here in the US can also be fabulously low paid but through a different kind of labor exploitation. Especially in New York where SVA is producing a gl

Animation here in the US can also be fabulously low paid but through a different kind of labor exploitation. Especially in New York where SVA is producing a glut of animators, many people work at "internships" for _years_ after graduating. I have met someone who was in an unpaid internship for 8 years at the same company... Also the pay terms are usually Net180 and many clients just don't pay, knowing that animators are too timid to sue. This can happen to the studios too. Animation Collective (defunct) was once doing months of animation work for a faith-based organization that late into the project the client said "God came to me in a dream and told me not to work on this" and then stopped paying the studio. The animators never got paid for the months of work they'd put in.