How short are those "insane" time limits?

[AJ]

Best quote we ever had to make:

Animation for game intro. 5 minutes long Schedule of 5 days, 4 page brief, first two words "Human army..."

Admittedly, that job didn't get done.

[LadyMedusa]

Best quote we ever had to make:

Animation for game intro. 5 minutes long Schedule of 5 days, 4 page brief, first two words "Human army..."

Admittedly, that job didn't get done.
Good to know. That seems indeed a little insane to me aswell, but personally I haven't tried animating, I just think it's a little hard-like to do "fast". Is that the average time limit

That job didn't get done?! D: What happened, did you get fired or did you (the team) just cancel it all?

[adam-crockett]

As a game animator, my tasks are usually handed to me in lists: walk, run, fall, stand, die, attack1, attack2, etc etc etc.

I always schedule a day per item.

That being said, I might do 2 or 3 animations one day (simple ones: idles, emotes,) and then spend 2 or 3 days on another (complex or often seen ones: walks, runs, deaths.) It usually averages out to an animation per day. It takes me about a month to work through an animation suite for a game character.

All of this varys from project to project and character to character. The above estimates are typical human figure, sans facial animation. Add facial animation, or a really complex character, those figure start going up.

[DimitrisLiatsos]

TV spots usually are the most time pressing ( and insane in description...i dare say..) ..at least in my knowledge.

Monday 10 minutes before u leave from work u are called to a meeting. U leave from that one at 10 o'clock and reach your apartment at midnight...they call u at 8 in the morning to go start modeling 'cuase the concept/story board artist stayed up all night ....It's Tuesday...around noon they tell u that u have only tonight for animation and tommorow by mid day u must have the render layers ..OF THE FREAKING ANIMATION..which u haven't done yet ...READY for the compositor to work :scream: :scream: ...and then ..u...u stop thinking and u run like hell...wensday night ..u come home dead ..u open the tv ..u happen to fall on the tv spot u made just 3 hours ago...u throw a tomatoe on tv ...occasionally and a glass of fine scotch :cry: ...u log in CGtalk..and u see how cool stuff people make while your head was bombarded with horses**t 2 and 1/2 days...

Hope it helps......

:)

[BillSpradlin]

We had a shot for a recent movie that we had to do in 2 days, from modeling to final composite. That's probably the tightest time frame I've had so far.

[LadyMedusa]

Adam- that doesn't sound that "insane" :)
That means there is still hope for the "slower" people :) That made my day.

Dimi- Hahaha. Don't tell me that's based on a true experience? :o

Bill- 2 days seems indeed tight for modeling, I think. What is the normal limit?

[DimitrisLiatsos]

Adam- that doesn't sound that "insane" :)
That means there is still hope for the "slower" people :) That made my day.

Dimi- Hahaha. Don't tell me that's based on a true experience? :o

Bill- 2 days seems indeed tight for modeling, I think. What is the normal limit?


At least 1 time every week my dear Valentina...Yes it's a feaking true experience....
:argh: ....I remember during the last challenge (M&S)...i was doing 1 commercial on Mon and Tues ...second Wensday -Thurs -Friday morning ..and one from Sat noon to Mon noon next week.... :banghead: :banghead: :banghead: ....and the favourite question from someone in work..." Is rendering done yet?...why is taking so long...?..." :banghead:

[LadyMedusa]

At least 1 time every week my dear Valentina...Yes it's a feaking true experience....
:argh: ....I remember during the last challenge (M&S)...i was doing 1 commercial on Mon and Tues ...second Wensday -Thurs -Friday morning ..and one from Sat noon to Mon noon next week.... :banghead: :banghead: :banghead: ....and the favourite question from someone in work..." Is rendering done yet?...why is taking so long...?..." :banghead:

Jikes, inpatient boss. Reminds me of my dad's former boss :s
"are you done yet?", 5 min. later "are you done yet?", 5 min. later... An endless cycle. (He works whit those comercials that comes in the post, loads of stress there aswell)
Don't waste that scotch next time ;)

[icedeyes]

For a theme park in Quatar i had to create three characters, animate them doing sports activities and render them out in 2 days.... I made it (jerky animation but nothing better was possible for the timeframe) and i am really proud of it..... 2 days with no sleep at all....

And another one was an application that we had to create for a best multimedia production in Greece contest (in 2002) and me along with 6 other friends of mine stayed awake and worked non-stop for about 5 days (the only time we slept was when we rendered the video and 3d for it... in turns so that if something went wrong we could make it right).... I slept for 26 hours afterwards and we did win.... That was one of the best moments in my "career"...

[adam-crockett]

Adam- that doesn't sound that "insane" :)
That means there is still hope for the "slower" people :) That made my day.


I know it doesn't sound that insane...it wasn't supposed to. You were saying you wanted to know what bosses expected, and I was just relating some average timetables. Its not always insane. I prefer it that way.

Im glad it made your day.

[LadyMedusa]

I know it doesn't sound that insane...it wasn't supposed to. You were saying you wanted to know what bosses expected, and I was just relating some average timetables. Its not always insane. I prefer it that way.

Im glad it made your day.
Exactly what I was hoping to hear :)
It's just that some people mean that you guys work on only insane time limits. I was expecting the average to be tighter, to tell the truth.

So 3d related jobs generally take a day or two, or a little more, what about the 2d related jobs?

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