The Animation Sequence?

Simple version.

Idea > write story> art design> storyboard> record dialouge> animation> clean-up> ink and paint/lighting rendering> compsiting> final editing> score> watch.

I'm sure I've got some switched around and most are done overlapping one another, but thats it in its more simpler forms.

Aloha,
the Ape

I got the Maya question:

Once your scene is modeled, rigged, animated, lit, and rendered, you import the rendered frames into AE for compositing/sound synch/effects work, and render out the final result.

For production pieces, you always render individual frames out of Maya, not a QT or AVI. Frequently, you'll render sections of your shots separately and then combine them in AE. For example, if your background elements aren't moving at all, then one frame of them behind the animation works just as well as rendering the whole environment for every frame, and saves render time too.

*Story (pencil and paper)
*Storyboards (pencil and paper)
*Character design (pencil and paper)
*Voice recording
*Modeling
*Blend shapes (mouths, blinks, brows, etc)
*Texturing
*Rigging
*Animation
*Rendering
*Post-production

Five minutes is a lot of footage to produce, even if it's really simple. There is no standard answer; a lot depends on how much time you put in on it.

Ic DSB How long does it take to make about a REALLY Simple 5 min video (Just one model and some movement so and so, Like an MC or spokesperson)

If you're really good and fast you could probably crank out 30 to 45 seconds of animation a week in a 40 hour work week. So at least 10 weeks to animate a five minute short. Just animation and not including modeling, lighting, rendering and that other stuff.

Aloha,
the Ape