...and when you're an "army of one", it takes about 5 years to create 34 minutes of finished animation...I hope you're not in a hurry!  ;-)

Seriously, the others are correct: animation is slow and painstaking work, but there's nothing else like it. I've stuck with it because I enjoy the process (when I'm not cursing it) as well as the results because I keep learning and improving, and it's just generally fun figuring out how to create what you want to show.