So long as you have the software and the people working doesn’t it just matter how much a person is willing to put into their work matter after that?
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At its simplest, it will take a certain amount of man hours to produce animation at a desired quality, and those man hours cost money.
You can hire a lot of employees to do that work quickly, or hire fewer employees and take longer to complete it, but will still take the same amount of man hours worth of effort to do the work.
Remember that not all animation is made equal – making a simple and lot detail animation such as South Park, The Simpsons and a lot of kids TV will be relatively cheap and easy to do – the length of time it takes to produce a seconds worth of animation will be a lot quicker, and commercial software will be cheaper to buy.
If you want to make really high quality animation however, that just takes more time and effort – go look at a recent big movie and a characters hair won’t be a solid block of colour like Marge Simpsons, but individually animated strands all moving realistically together. This just takes more time and skill to animate, and much more complex and custom designed software to do efficiently, all of which comes at a price.
Alongside that you also have to consider budgets for the writers who have scripted and storyboarded the movie, the voice actors and recording studio time, plus all of the other marketing and distribution that needs to be done on a successful movie.
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