As an example, I calculate that a button requries 8-12 hours of programming effort (data validation, database interaction, etc...) 

I am not an animator.  I have a small project in which I would like to incorporate animation.  The Crazy Talk 6 family demo (father, mother, son, dog) cartoon seemed like an excellent prototype in which to use as an example.

The purpose of my project is for foreign language training.  I also saw another product, the text-to-speech add on product which I am also interested.

Is is accurate to assume the Crazy Talk 6 cartoon demo would take 200 hours of effort for every minute of animation.  The 200 hours would include storybodarding, scripting, design, etc...

I am simply interested in determining the cost of developing animation projects.  Since the Crazy Talk 6 cartoon demo is my basis for comparison, those with experience can guage how close or far off base I am.

Hopefully, I can get a better idea of the costs involved.

Thanks

I can't really comment on the Crazytalk family project as I was not involved in its creation but in general terms I think 200 hours is maybe an over estimate. Of course it depends on the complexity and length of the project but experienced users will be able to create a project in a lot less than that. I have personally never exceeded 50 hours on a project yet. The vast majority have been well under 10 - 20 hours.

 

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