@Campbell_Million Okay, so I want you to know just how tremendously time-consuming and difficult animating is, hence why it is so expensive. I am not an animator, but I did take an animation course in college, and animated a few times before that point.
This simple, choppy sequence is only 8 frames, and it took me a whole two weeks to complete. And that was with simplifying the color/shading waaaaay more than I would want to and completely forgoing a background. Granted, I am a beginner, so obviously I take more time than a pro.
Compare that to this page:
which is way more complicated, has 7 panels, detailed coloring, backgrounds, and
only took me 3 days to complete. (And I am on the slow side of illustrating).
Animating is crazy difficult. Also, based on how long it takes to animate, in order for any of the animators on the team to make a decent wage from all their hours of work, the price per short clip would be stupidly expensive, and I seriously doubt any of the comic artists on Tapas could afford it.