Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-37313691-20181228000906/@comment-30871204-20191014032905

Suppose it takes 25 min (1500s) to draw 1 frame (that's drawing pretty fast).

And lets say that each 180 frames (3-6 seconds) are similar enough that you can get away with just spending 3 min (180s) copying and pasting frames and changing the frame minorly.

So every 180 frames, it takes 28 minutes to make.

Say the animation is 1 hour long. (3600 seconds)

According to math, the time it takes to make the film is approximately:

( (Length of film * FPS) / 180 ) * (Time it takes making 1 frame + time it takes copying and pasting and making minor changes)

Plug in our variables:

( (3600 * 30) / 180) * (1500 + 180)

= 600 * 1680

= 1008000 seconds.

Divide that by 3600 and we get the number of hours.

1008000 / 3600 = 280 hours.

Woah! That's a lot of hours!

Say you work 4 hours a day, including weekends (it's a lot for somthing you don't make a lot of money for)

280 / 4 = 70 days.

According to my calculations, it would take about 2 months and a half working 4 hours per day to finish animating this film.