I stumbled upon a discussion on cgsociety about the costs of animated films per minute... So it got me thinking about mine cause I always like laughing to myself about how cheap I do shit and the world will see with HSM and my future production that my quality is rising FAST MAYNE!!! We are the Strange 2007 $20,000 budget 94 minutes- Cost per minute $212.00 Heart String Marionette 2010 $15,000 budget 120 minutes- Cost per minute $125.00 So I'm actually doing HSM for a lot less than WATS and you'll have to take my word for it that the quality will be 10 times that of WATS... Its cheaper because the technology used to make 3d films is getting cheaper and more powerful... Just for fun lets run the same rough calculation on some mainstream animated features... Ratatouille 2007 $150 million budget 111 minutes - Cost per minute $1.3 million UP 2009 $175 million budget 96 minutes - Cost per minute $1.82 million I find it odd that Pixar and most all of the studios I looked at for 3d f
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