Re: FLASH: Whirl Girl

[Jon Williams]

if you look at the credits, they've got a team of 20 or so

including all editors/producers/sound/animators/illustrators/etc


I'd say it takes from 3 weeks (if everything is a well-oiled operation)

to around a month of everyone's time to go from zero to production.

But that's staggered because you can't do squat without a storyboard

and that takes almost half the time...

So, you're only interested in character stuff...let's see...by far, the

most

grueling part is the lip-sync...if you look closely at the animation

in whirl girl, it's pretty bland...the fact that the illustration is

well-done

hides this pretty well. They probably spent over 75% of their time on

lip

sync.


Flash animators are hot, and if you want freelancers (?) that costs

more,

so I'd say budget $120 - 180 an hour per person (I tend to leave room in


my budgets for the unexpected unexpected--as opposed to the expected

unexpected). The rest of the math is up to you. The ultimate cost of a

project

is directly proportional to a) the quality of the final result which is

directly

proportional (with a max) to b) the amount of time sunk into it.

commonsense

of course, but this is ESPECIALLY true in animation.


you'll probably get more specific answers from the character animators

on this list, of which I am not a member.


-jon


Tim Doherty wrote:


> I've posted a similar inquiry but received no responses, so I'll try

> again:

>

> Can anyone give me a rough estimation of what an episode of Whirl Girl

> (www.whirlgirl.com)  probably takes to make?  I'm trying to get a

> handle on how many animators, how long, and how much $$.  My company

> is trying to complete a budget forecast for an upcoming animated

> series similar to Whirl Girl.  (I'm only interested in the actual

> costs of the Flash character animation.  VO, music, writing, and

> storyboards budgets are already in place.)

>

> By the way, after we work out our budgets and schedules, we�re going

> to be hiring.

>

> Thanks,

>

> Tim Doherty

> BrainGAP Entertainment

>

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