What happens to animators if there is no film to animate?

I have been thinking about becoming a traditional(hand drawn) animator in Disney. I really like traditional animation and im pretty good at drawing and animating. What happens to animators if there is no film to animate? Also, do they use ALL of the animators in the studio or do they only pick a few of them?|||well its rather obvious that like most jobs you wont be called in if there'ss no work to do, if there was still no work to do after a while theBusinesss lets say "disney" would have to make redundancies and if work stilldidn'tt pick up they would probably eventually shut down.|||I would not get into the field unless you are very passionate, seeing as there have been MANY layoffs of the traditional animators over the years and you would be competing with people who have 15+ years of experience on you. Plus, Disney usually doesn't just hire students straight out of school. The market is pretty saturated.


It depends on the situation who gets the boot. How valuable you are to the company plays into it (although the fatcat corporate execs who make the mistakes never get the boot.)


You mean in between movies? There is ALWAYS a movie going on, just because they are released at different points in time. The Rapunzel movie has been in production for like, 7 years and it's still not even advertised. And when the job is done, animators move on like everyone else. They must find new studios and contracts if theirs is through.