Did you ever consider storyboarding the animations and farming it out to someone? It probably wouldn't make sense financially, but it might bring it back under the amount of time you'd have/want to spend on it.
Briefly, but I realized that the creative satisfaction of the whole thing came from being able to do everything myself, so giving that up would have made it pointless to me. I feel bad about it because it's definitely a bit of a narcissistic take (praise me, for I can do it all!), but the truth is that I was also discouraged by the mistakes I made in the research process, and how mean some of the commenters who pointed them out were.
I started to get a lot of anxiety about the whole process, and realized that I would have had to put even more effort into it ok top of my full time job, which further cemented my choice to just run away from it. I periodically feel really bad about it. Hopefully some day I'll win the lottery and I'll be able to make another episode. I actually have the script for episode 3 all done: I wrote it on parental leave, but that also didn't last forever!
I started to get a lot of anxiety about the whole process, and realized that I would have had to put even more effort into it ok top of my full time job, which further cemented my choice to just run away from it. I periodically feel really bad about it. Hopefully some day I'll win the lottery and I'll be able to make another episode. I actually have the script for episode 3 all done: I wrote it on parental leave, but that also didn't last forever!