Giving up literature

Anyone else here giving up on their dreams of writing literature for another artistic medium? I've always been hyperlexic and a voracious reader since a young age, my favorite authors being Proust, Musil, and Dickens. But in my struggle to create art, as well as reading contemporary literature, I've realized that literature can't capture the consciousness of the contemporary world, nor is there an audience for it anymore, people have been steadily reading more and more only online and it's pretty clear that the novel is going to become a dead art form like the epic poem. Anyway, I was watching an anime movie called 'In This Corner of the World' last night and realized that there's actually a huge amount of untapped artistic potential in the medium of animation and that critics and academics that dismiss it are simply afraid of change and want to retain their status and position upon the cultural hegemony. Not to mention that there's a gigantic audience for this stuff that is only growing larger by the day, for an artist that is interested in working on a large scale and wants to capture the mass imagination of today's consumers this seems like the perfect medium. Don't forget that Shakespeare was once regarded as a lowbrow playwright who attracted large audiences of plebs. In conclusion, I've decided to give up on writing literature and focus my efforts on creating anime.

Make incest porn with tentacles - a huge suckcess.

The root of ill, in your case, might be laid at creating art-for-art's-sake; I have grappled with the sickness of 'should art be rooted from conscious or unwittingly. I also share your urge to shift -frontwards or sideways- to mixed-art or VVagners Gesamtkunstwerk, my own thought being a mix of poetry, painting/drawing (like comics but more expressive) so I sympathize somewhat to your wish to make anime; however, be careful on the binds your put yourself in "Anime" -rather than animation- has a particular form and expression that may not fit your world-sight. And lastly Animation has made significant strides in the latter-tide of history, how would you see yourself going about offering something new?

Anyway; beware the trap of restrictions, never make art for art's sake.

If you don't love the process then do something else. Stop wasting time with this faithless shit.

T. Guy who tried to convince himself several times writing wasnt his thing, but learned it was since I became bitter and empty without it

What's made not for art's sake is not art.

You don't have to love the process to create great art, that seems like one of those canards that's thrown around but doesnt have any connection to many historical examples. Obviously you have to be able to tolerate it though or be motivated enough not for it to discourage you.

I want to make art for my own sake. I'm just reasonably sure that the kind of art I want to make will appeal to many people, I'm tired of academic and intellectual that is only appreciated by a niche. I admire those artists who are able to work on a large commercial scale and still able to leave their personal creative print on it like the auteurs of old Hollywood, it seems like they are working on the grandest and most important of stages, creating the entertainment that millions of people will see and be influenced by.

No, you have to love it, that's why you'd even consider dedicating your life to it.

"Loving the process" dosen't mean you're some airy fairy faggot just dabbling around looking for giggles. It means you care so deeply for your craft that you will go through utter hell, if neccesary, to be the best craftsman you can be. Whatever sucesses or failures you encounter are just more opportunites to learn. Every single great artist in history has this quality, and the vast majority of them were only recongized after they died.

I don't consider that the same as 'loving' though. You don't have to particularly care for the fact of creation itself, it can be painful, you just have to be motivated and disciplined enough to do it. I basically agree with what you're saying though.
>the vast majority of them were only recongized after they died.
Do you have a figure for that? That may or may not be true, I can think of many of what are regarded as the greatest artists of all time and they were all recognized during their lives.

So just do that if that's what you want. Why do you feel the need to justify your stance?

Movies and animation have their place in the artistic sphere just like novels, poetry and music. But I will say you're incredibly naive to think literature can't influence culture on a mass scale, even in this more visually oriented society. More people are reading than ever before in history, btw.