Thursday, July 19, 2012

Feasibility Study 2

2 characters, 16 frames, 3 hours.

On average there are 3 characters, :. I estimate I can draw 1 frame/17 minutes for the overall film.

If I work 8 hours a day (except weekends) for three months, that's 480 hours.

That's about 1700 frames.  At 25fps (we're using PAL format now) that's just over a minute of animation.

HOWEVER, that's an underestimation.  I'll most likely have some held poses and repeating cycles (such as my example right here).  I believe I can squeeze out 1 minute and 30 seconds, not including title and credits.  Think that'll work.

Tuesday, July 17, 2012

Feasibility Study

This is 27 frames long, and took 3 hours.  (e.g. 9 frames per hour) Even though I didn't finish the arms I'll use it as an example.

Suppose I animated an average of two characters, and the whole film was three minutes long at 24 frames per second.

So from that let's assume it'd takes a total of 960 hours to finish the whole film.  If I worked 8 hours a day including weekends, then it'd take 120 days, or 4 months.

That's not including the colouring in or the backgrounds!