How long does it take you to complete a movie?

[Scoot]

I have 80 hours in SFM, and have been using the next Saxxy's as an excuse to learn the software. I've done about 60 seconds worth of animation in that time. I'm new of course, so I have 'go slow' moments.

I'm curious about how long it takes you guys to finalise a 2-3 minute project usually :)

[Zappy]

It depends on the video in question. Something detailed with a lot of action spanning 2 minutes can take longer than a music video of a slow-paced song with a lot of the scenes having very little movement for several seconds in a row spanning 3 minutes, but the opposite can also be the case.

Personally, it just takes as long for me as it takes. If I'm satisfied within an hour, I'm satisfied within an hour, but if I'm satisfied after 10 hours, I'm satisfied after 10 hours. Of course it can be less than an hour or more than 10 hours, too.

[Pte Jack]

Some of these people that enter a Saxxy actually can be taking a year or 2 to develop a video. They start working on them with that time frame in mind.

Some take 3 minutes to animate for the current Saxxy and 45 minutes to render their 2-3 minute video. You can see the difference in the quality of the content. (usually... lol)

But it is up to you how long you want to take. Plan your content, do a storyboard, animate to the storyboard, make sure to allow the necessary time to animate properly and render.

[Scoot]

Originally posted by Pte Jack:

Some of these people that enter a Saxxy actually can be taking a year or 2 to develop a video. They start working on them with that time frame in mind.

Some take 3 minutes to animate for the current Saxxy and 45 minutes to render their 2-3 minute video. You can see the difference in the quality of the content. (usually... lol)

But it is up to you how long you want to take. Plan your content, do a storyboard, animate to the storyboard, make sure to allow the necessary time to animate properly and render.

Oh I know. My question wasn't 'am I taking the right amount of time' it was literally 'hey chaps, let's discuss project times in general' lol.

[Machina13]

Originally posted by Scout:

Originally posted by Pte Jack:

Some of these people that enter a Saxxy actually can be taking a year or 2 to develop a video. They start working on them with that time frame in mind.

Some take 3 minutes to animate for the current Saxxy and 45 minutes to render their 2-3 minute video. You can see the difference in the quality of the content. (usually... lol)

But it is up to you how long you want to take. Plan your content, do a storyboard, animate to the storyboard, make sure to allow the necessary time to animate properly and render.

Oh I know. My question wasn't 'am I taking the right amount of time' it was literally 'hey chaps, let's discuss project times in general' lol.

well, i dont have much experience with animation but from the few chaps ive spoken with an good 5 min animation can take about 100 hours

[Scoot]

Originally posted by Machina|SFM COMISSIONS:

Originally posted by Scout:

Oh I know. My question wasn't 'am I taking the right amount of time' it was literally 'hey chaps, let's discuss project times in general' lol.

well, i dont have much experience with animation but from the few chaps ive spoken with an good 5 min animation can take about 100 hours

Sounds about right. I read the Winglet Q&A he did on here some time ago, and he spent something like 200-300 hours per 3-4 minute Saxxy entry. Explains why his quality is just so damn gooood.

[Krinkov]

I've been working on a two and a half minutes long animation and it's taken me ten months and hundreds of hours to animate just over one minute.

[Scoot]

Originally posted by Krinkov:

I've been working on a two and a half minutes long animation and it's taken me ten months and hundreds of hours to animate just over one minute.

Oh wow. Is it a complicated sequence?

[Capt Fuzzy]

I've learned that, depending on the 'quality' of the animation, the time it takes to do it can be quite large, even for a short video. If you want your animation to look realistic, then you have to plan out all the movement, not of just the main character, but any background characters as well. Then there's environmental things to consider, and let's not forget scenebuilding, lighting and camera animations as well.
Another thing that I've learned is you shouldn't just throw something together 'willy-nilly' but rather have a plan. That's where storyboarding comes in. A storyboard is nothing complicated either. It's more or less a 'roadmap' of how you want the animation to look when it's finished.

[Krinkov]

Originally posted by Scout:

Originally posted by Krinkov:

I've been working on a two and a half minutes long animation and it's taken me ten months and hundreds of hours to animate just over one minute.

Oh wow. Is it a complicated sequence?

Not particularly, but I have been working slowly on it and have been doing everything possible to make it as similar to my vision as possible. I've also had some other smaller projects I've been working on as well so I guess that factors in too.

[surfer171]

Originally posted by xTanglex:

Takes like 7-5 Months, Or a year, I have 1119 Hours on sfm.

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