I know I've been gone for a while; decided to take the summer off. I turned off comments on my videos because someone accused me of tracing without giving credit. I didn't trace. I did use references from other videos online. And that person didn't bother to look that I did give credit to those videos that I referenced in the original post. As I stated before, I'm a beginner and I'm learning this on my own. My response is in the screenshot. As I am writing this, that user has still not given the same amount of critique on the other video that I mentioned the same way he did on mine. Yes, that comment did bring me down, even though they stated that it wasn't their intention. Also, as I'm writing this, they still don't post videos online for their mental health. At least I'm trying to put my work out there. There are plenty of other videos they could watch and ignore that my work even exists!
Moving forward, I'm still making animatics, I just won't post them. I might make a Patreon for the people who are interested in my work.