Wonder what the minimum viable team is for making the minimum viable animated shorts series with the minimum viable toolchain. Animation has one of the fastest increasing tool-complexity progressions I’ve ever seen in a creative domain.
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Animated gifs are the twitter of animation
Gifs = tweets
1-3 minute shorts = long form blog posts
22min tv episodes = books
Movies = 3+ book series
Weird that there’s no strong relation to comic books though obviously many get adapted into animated series.
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Probably not much? I imagine you can use some paper and pencil sketches for an animated short but that’s very minimally viable. And guess it depends on what you have in mind when you say animation
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Viable for what medium? Playable-in-Twitter, YouTube shorts, half-hour weekly TV episodes, full-length movies...
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Long ago I tried pulling together an open source animation community where people could collaborate on series. Not saying it couldn’t work ever, but an animation artist is more prone to be motivated by self-expression efforts that are best fulfilled solo.
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AI style transfer, mapping movements and lip-synching onto a 2d or 3d character rig.
Decent chunk of setup, but once you have that, you could get "shitty but good enough for adult swim after a second pass" animation out of real-time character acting.







