How come some 20 minutes long episode of simple cartoon like Steven Universe or Amphibia takes about half a year to make? These things don’t have that much stuff moving on the screen and the style is quite simplistic. Gotta say a month seems too much.
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That's a lot of words to say "I've never animated anything in my life, and have no idea how the process works at all."
>brainstorming the episode
>writting the episode
>writting review meeting
>re wriotting the episode
>writting review meeting
>greelighting the episode
>storyboarding the episode
>recording the lines of the episode
>sending the storyboards and the lines to korea
>answering korean studio's questions
>scoring the episode
>sound effecting the episode (sometimes recodring new sound effects)
>brainstorming the episode
>writting the episode
>writting review meeting
>re wriotting the episode
>writting review meeting
>greelighting the episode
3 days at most
>storyboarding the episode
Week
>recording the lines of the episode
A day?
>sending the storyboards and the lines to korea
>answering korean studio's questions
I see a bottleneck. Guess what, how about you animate it in house? The asiatics cannot be too slow working, so I guess a month.
>scoring the episode
Day
>sound effecting the episode (sometimes recodring new sound effects)
Maybe a week in worst case scenario, but supposely stock sounds get you far.
I might be underestimating it a bit.
>tell me how you never worked in your life without actually telling me
I happen to have job (one of those where you need a relevant STEM degree to be allowed to do it even) and so I understand why things take a lot longer than they really should, but come on, half a year is ridiculous.
Okay anon, you try it. Go on, see how long it takes.
Network system is inefficient by design. there are animators out there doing entire episodes by themselves weekly and with network cartoon quality.
>there are animators out there doing entire episodes by themselves weekly and with network cartoon quality.
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Rape is why
Incompetence inflation television dying as a medium so less advertiser money to fund good cartoons
It's not per episode, they're making a whole season at the same time. Wtf are you thinking, that Hollywood somehow discovered time travel and uses it to make cartoons lmao
Isn't there a team of animators for each episode of a season? I was under the assumption that there would be teams of 15 people minimum working on each episode, and by the time the deadline arrives each episode is about finished.
Oh no no no anon, VERY few shows have that luxury. You ever seen those Japanese offices where people sleep under their desks? Yeah, it's no better here
What the frick? There's no way people are animating by the week, right?
Yep
Seasons are made in batches because networks want a backlog of content to air. Sure, it doesn't take long to make a single episode, but if you want a 20 episode season then it does take a year to make.
>t. Suit
You know how many frames there are in a second for a usual toon? 24 (twenty-four) frames, aka drawings for a second of animation.
You know how many seconds are in a minute? 60 (sixty) seconds. Simple math makes that 1,440 (one-thousand four-hundred forty) drawings for a minute of animation. But for a grand total of 20 minutes, thats 28,800 (TWENTY-EIGHT THOUSAND EIGHT-HUNDRED) drawings that need to be made. Go on, grab yourself and your friends and make 28,800 drawings in less than a month.
>Go on, grab yourself and your friends and make 28,800 drawings in less than a month.
No tv show is animated on ones, so it's 14,400 or less drawings and that's for animated show that don't use rigged 2D animation, there is no excuse for rigged animation taking the same amount of time as frame by frame animation, but it does, except for south park which is fast, all other shows have ridiculous production times and budgets that could be made faster and cheaper if they didn't have overpaid VAs and inefficient workflows.
Privileged whites are lazy
Leftards are lazy
Mix those 2 and voila