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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The artists working need to get paid, and in this industry that’s a lot. Sometimes upwards of $50/h.
Then you have all the support staff, production managers, coordinators, IT, developers… They don’t work on the animation directly, but are very important to the process.
Then you have the systems supporting the production like servers, storage, task management, digital asset management…
Hardware, a lot of expensive hardware …
Any animation project is really complex and it really relies heavily on the organization to allow the artists to do their work effectively.
This is just skimming the surface, and any creative process will have a lot of back and forth that will additionally raise the budget and needs to be accounted for.
[animation pipeline](https://i.imgur.com/ZVrcdIp.jpg)
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