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When you ship your new project 
The first rule of Animation is that nobody who isn't doing animation realizes how much goes into doing animation
A really good example is South Park. They can do near-instant-seeming episodes, where they famously work on them on a Monday and have the finished show out on Wednesday - but they have this massive infrastructure/software base they've developed for 20 years to do it.
And the show is designed from the ground up to allow the animators to do huge amounts of stuff automatically - an initial rough-run automatically doing the mouth animation, for example, before someone tunes it. Drawn animation can't do this. CGI can do some but not much.
Anyway, Rick and Morty have been picked up for 70 more episodes (!!) and are led by a guy (Dan Harmon) who is famous for being meticulous about writing and arcs, and Justin Roiland, who has a pretty deep set of creativity to work with. There's not even a word for unworried I am.
Did I ever do animation? Yes, a long, long time ago. But my animation played on Comedy Central, so that's something. Also, yeah, even what I did was murderously stressful.
