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2 years ago
I get this from time to time. Right now production stands at animation, 90%. I have 4mins 37 seconds of finished color animation cut together in Adobe Premiere with sound. With each finished dialogue interstitial I can cut together another 30 seconds or so of finished action scenes. I estimate there are about a dozen dialogue scenes left to animate. This will probably take me through the fall of this year. My biggest slowdown occurs because for me this is still a hobby...an important one but sadly not my full-time job anymore. Until I retire next year I'll lose 9-10 hours of production work every day to my current day job. But I still have weekends and I can get a solid 20+ hours each weekend to get further down the line.
So what's next after animation? After animation comes sound design and music score. I've hired a background artist, might as well get an original score by a reputable composer and sound FX by someone with a sound studio added as well. I have no idea how long 7 minutes of scored music takes to write but I'll be finding out. Ever since I was a little kid I've always wanted to animate my own film....and with each passing month I get closer to my goal.
How will it be released? Most likely Youtube although I've not ruled out a dedicated website to showcase the project.
So what's next after animation? After animation comes sound design and music score. I've hired a background artist, might as well get an original score by a reputable composer and sound FX by someone with a sound studio added as well. I have no idea how long 7 minutes of scored music takes to write but I'll be finding out. Ever since I was a little kid I've always wanted to animate my own film....and with each passing month I get closer to my goal.
How will it be released? Most likely Youtube although I've not ruled out a dedicated website to showcase the project.
For what it's worth, what I did was an early release for supporters, followed by a full release to the public a year or so later, so long as you're up-front that it will eventually be free and purchasing it early is just to support it and potentially more similar projects in the future.
At least, that's how mine functions, and it seems to have worked out pretty well (575 sales). Gonna release it for free a few months from now.
Patreon exclusives do bring people in though, and since this is still in the process, people will certainly be interested. So you've got options, and this community's super generous.