Research - Production Time

Considering that I have opted for a handmade aesthetic it is important to recognise the time that it takes to make something using handmade means, it is such a massive difference between creating something using handmade assets and producing the animation using a process such as stop motion animation, to then scanning in handmade assets and animating those assets using digital software such as aftereffects or Maya. An Example of this time difference that I could point to is South Park's original production time for their first production was 3 months, and over time amassing an asset library that the animators could use and reuse lead to the production time being reduced to just six days - this includes writing the narrative, script, recording voices and compiling audio all in just six days. This is the power of technology being able to speed up the production process.