We know plenty of people who animate, including myself and my husband. That's where we got our start. Unfortunately, animation takes a lot of time, and a lot of money. To create animation of the caliber to match our comic would take MONTHS with only two of us...and that would only be a minute or so worth of finalized animation.
We could have gone with the animated short route for sure, but the way we see that is it goes off like a bottle rocket. It's out, and then it's over just as quick. With a comic the team not only get's to tell our story, our way, but we also prove that there's an audience and prove we know what we're doing when it comes to storytelling. We've seen too many folks in the industry pitch, and then find out that they'll have very little creative imput what-so-ever. Sure it can be worked into the contract, but that's how 'creative differences' happen, and the creators are ousted from the property they created all together.
We aren't about that life.