How Long Does It Take To Animate An Episode Of Family Guy
Answerman How Long Does An Anime Episode Take To Make?
by Justin Sevakis, 
I have a pretty simple question. About how long prior to a show airing does animation production offset? Then non pre-production meetings or voice interim or anything like that, merely the artists sitting down and drawing the whole dang thing. How much of a lead time do these artists need to exist able to produce a 12 episode anime? Is 24 episodes but twice every bit much time? I realize each anime will be different, but a crude estimate would be interesting to know.
Unfortunately this is one of those questions where the reader is hoping for some definitive, hard and fast rule, and in that location basically isn't one. Anime production schedules are highly elastic, based on both the budget and the level of ambition of the production -- equally well as, frankly, how organized and/or sane the people producing information technology are. Ideally, planning and pre-production (things like writing, storyboarding, finding talent to be on staff for the project, design work, etc.) starts a twelvemonth or more than before the showtime episode is scheduled to air. The starting time flake of animation is a piffling hard to pin down, since some test animation is ofttimes washed early by the core team of animators, both for promotion and to attract investment in the projection. Some of this animation usually finds its way into the final product.
In about cases, there are several teams of animators that each take on one episode at a time, and rotate betwixt them every bit their schedules let. (Shirobako has a great depiction of this.) Every bit one episode is finished, the team moves onto the next episode in their pile. Unfortunately that means that if they're running late on one episode, the next one gets a later on start, and so scheduling problems tend to pour, resulting in product running notoriously behind schedule towards the end of a run. Occasionally a special team volition be brought in to do a single episode, either as a pinch-hitter, or as a special event.
Sometimes, a actually ambitious show will destine 3 months or more of production to each episode, merely that's not the norm for most anime. For an average Goggle box serial (though again this is by no ways definitive) each team will offset with two months or more to complete each episode, simply later on a few episodes schedule creep sets in, and showtime date volition slip later and later. Some episodes will get seven weeks. So six. There are times when whole episodes are produced in as footling every bit four or five weeks. With digital animation, it's getting easier to cover up quick-and-shoddy animation with furnishings like lighting, mist, different coloring, and impressive-looking CG layers that are cleverly re-positioned and re-rendered from earlier episodes.
However another reminder that this business ofttimes flies by the seat of its pants.
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Anime News Network founder Justin Sevakis wrote Answerman between July 2013 and August 2019, and had over 20 years of experience in the anime business at the time. These days, he'due south the owner of the video production visitor MediaOCD, where he produces many anime Blu-rays. You lot can follow him on Twitter at @worldofcrap.
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