I have been hired to do jobs that other animators find too hard. Last year I completed a twenty minute job by myself. I have animated complete series of cartoons, one set of web cartoons was 3minutes to 5 minutes in length and 9 episodes long. I vitually did all of the work on the project including writing some episodes.
I have also completed a 22 episode long project for an interactive kiosk that had to be animated at 25 frames per second.
I got this job after the companies designers realized that they had committed to a job that was beyond their abilities.