Pre-production, Production, Animation,??? How long does it take?
When directors and all that say "OH, Finding Nemo took six years to make" and such like that. Does that include pre production, or is that just the design and animation.
spoooze, does that 2-3 yr. prepro include development (writing script and story, pitches, deals,) or is that straight pre-production (scheduling, hiring resources and whatnot)?
There is no formula as such you know. Films usually start out as ideas then germinate into scripts and then get passed around worked and reworked, this can happen even when you are in production. Usually the bigger the film the more it will tend to be revised.
Sometimes two different ideas will be merged and then spun into something else.
Most of that time is spent on story. Hashing out ideas, writing, re-writing, cuting things, moving story points around. Stuff like that. After that, or at the same time, pre-production is done with character designs, backgrounds and the like. Storyboarding is somewhere inbetween story and character design. They also do animation tests, to try and nail down how the different characters move and act. Then finally it goes to animation which, on average is about a year to a year and a half. Sometimes more, sometimes less. All this stuff overlaps each other in a very liquid kind of production. Some things will effect others and they'll have to go back and re-write, or re-design something.
Aloha,
the Ape
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...we must all face a choice, between what is right... and what is easy."
Most of that time is spent on story. Hashing out ideas, writing, re-writing, cuting things, moving story points around. Stuff like that. After that, or at the same time, pre-production is done with character designs, backgrounds and the like. Storyboarding is somewhere inbetween story and character design. They also do animation tests, to try and nail down how the different characters move and act. Then finally it goes to animation which, on average is about a year to a year and a half. Sometimes more, sometimes less. All this stuff overlaps each other in a very liquid kind of production. Some things will effect others and they'll have to go back and re-write, or re-design something.
Aloha,
the Ape
precisely. also its a much bigger scale and resource project than tv, so when you are looking to spend $30-$50 million on a film, they make sure they have everything the way they want it. I think this is specifically true for Dreamworks and Pixar. im not so sure about other films.
spoooze, does that 2-3 yr. prepro include development (writing script and story, pitches, deals,) or is that straight pre-production (scheduling, hiring resources and whatnot)?
There is no formula as such you know. Films usually start out as ideas then germinate into scripts and then get passed around worked and reworked, this can happen even when you are in production. Usually the bigger the film the more it will tend to be revised.
Sometimes two different ideas will be merged and then spun into something else.
Most of that time is spent on story. Hashing out ideas, writing, re-writing, cuting things, moving story points around. Stuff like that. After that, or at the same time, pre-production is done with character designs, backgrounds and the like. Storyboarding is somewhere inbetween story and character design. They also do animation tests, to try and nail down how the different characters move and act. Then finally it goes to animation which, on average is about a year to a year and a half. Sometimes more, sometimes less. All this stuff overlaps each other in a very liquid kind of production. Some things will effect others and they'll have to go back and re-write, or re-design something.
Aloha,
the Ape
...we must all face a choice, between what is right... and what is easy."
precisely. also its a much bigger scale and resource project than tv, so when you are looking to spend $30-$50 million on a film, they make sure they have everything the way they want it. I think this is specifically true for Dreamworks and Pixar. im not so sure about other films.
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compare budgets, scale, cast and it will give you a pretty good handle
Usually pre-production takes around 3 years and animation from about 2-3 years depending on what the budget and length of the film is.
James :cool: