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For things to work well... how many animators are required for a 22 minutes episode and how fast are they supposed to work?
I don´t know exactly but everytime I read the credits lot of people is on the list
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The show that I am currently on has around 20 animators. I have worked on series that have had as few as 6 and as many as 100. Depends on the process and complexity.
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Hi Robert, thanks for your answer, and for you 20, how long it takes to finish a single 22 mins episode?
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There is someone here who knows the inner workings of "Foster's Home For Imaginary Friends". It sounds like you are looking for an average time, for whatever reasone, that a episode takes to be completed.
Well, the animation gets done in 4 weeks. We are working in flash and are on season 2 so there is a very large library to draw from. From begining to end it is much longer though. Here are some rough numbers that I am pulling out of my sleep deprived mind:
Script 4 weeks. Storyboard- 2 artists- 6 weeks. Leica editing/timing/board revision/conform 3 weeks. Design ( happens sort of during leica and part of boards) 3 weeks. Scene breakdown-assembly 2 weeks. Animation 4 weeks. Post production 3 weeks. So around 25 weeks or so. This has become a really tight process since most people have been on it from the start.
I wouldn't have so few animators on a new show! 16 seconds a week can sound pretty scary but it IS flash.
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Hi Plasma. In the studio where I used to work for, it took us two weeks to complete a 22 minute episode. This was a Flash series. We had two teams of 12 animators each with an additional 4 for back up, and each team tackles an episode for two weeks. Each animator was required to complete a quota of roughly 35 seconds of animation a week. It was easy for the fast ones to come up with 60 seconds a week.
On the traditional side the turnaround is a bit longer. Traditional animators are required at least 10 feet of animation per week (I am not sure now, it's been a while since).
The current series I am working on is a 7 minute per episode. There's roughly 10 animators on the show and each does 40-45 seconds per week. That's one 7 minute episode completed each week.
Like what Robert A. said, it does depend on the complexity and style of the show.
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