Angus McLoo-Loo wrote:Well its said the guy who animated that cartoon drew 700 frames a day(did I hear that wrong) well if its true I feel pretty ashamed of my lazy ass.
*laughing* 700...hmmm.. well keep in mind that animation is layered and he was drawing Mickey and only a few characters on a page at a time, that's not clean-up either. Doing high quality roughs, 700 of em a day no less, is bloody hard to do, but some of the top animators today can do that relatively easy depending on the scenes. Hell I've done 120 frames in a day and I have 6 months experience in animation. Needless to say the project was a cannonball falling/rolling around. Not much to draw really...but...y'know. I was reading "Chuck Amuck"(a kinda autobiography of Chuck Jones) and he spoke of a co-worker doing 60 feet of animation ...I think that was the number... keep in mind there are 16 frames per foot of film...yopu can do the math, and I'll go check that book to make sure I got the number right.. it might have been more.
It actually takes me about 1/2 hour or less per comic, but that's by design. (If you look at my comic, you'll see why) Even then, most of the time is actually spent trying to get the dialog to fit in the little bubbles and word it so it makes sense.
I really admire the dedication you all put into your comics. My deal was that I wanted to do a web comic, but knew if it took me that long, I wouldn't get any done past the first few, and I would be overly critical of them, so they'd never get published. At 25 min or so a peice, I don't feel as bad if they're not perfect.
I voted for 4 hours, but I think it takes more than that for me to finish a strip... I'm so prefectionist that I can take hours just to polish every bit of every little detail, and then they're shrunk to oblivion. And then I usually continue on the comic. Although I've now tried some faster methods and to get rid of the detail-freakness with the last ones (in the queue still..) since I don't want to end up publishing one comic a month...
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