Animating with Blender

Scope Example: Adding Length

For one last example, assume that you will not be able to adequately tell your story within 1 minute. Your storyboards and rough sound track work much better at the 90-second mark—a 50% increase. With all other things staying the same, how does that affect the workload? Main animation, storyboarding, compositing, and editing times will all increase in direct proportion to the running length. Based on the preceding estimates, this equates to an increase of 85 hours of working time.

Of course, all of these changes reinforce one another. Using the original estimate, adding a second character, another location, and 30 more seconds of animation would result in an additional 285 hours of work—almost doubling the original ...