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To be completed, the animation still had to pass through several hands. Some of the star animators produced up to 10 seconds a week. When I worked at Don Bluth Studios, we were expected to create roughly 3.5 seconds (5 feet of 35mm film) of rough character animation a week. He also explains that though he’s asking for $15,000 per minute, after Kickstarter/Amazon fees and rewards, he only gets to apply about half of that amount to animation production:

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UPDATE: Michael Gagné has written an insightful blog post on Kickstarter explaining the complex production process for full animation. It’s encouraging that the backers of their campaigns recognize this since a decent per-minute production rate is essential for crowdfunding to make a sizable impact in the world of animation production. Even with the aid of digitial technology, animation like the kind that Gagné and Yuasa produce remains a laborious, hand-crafted process. The takeaway: not only are more projects being successfully crowdfunded nowadays, but the per-minute rate for A-list animators is growing alongside it. This is not a particularly high per-minute production rate for the type of animation that they’re creating, but it is on the upper end of rates for Kickstarter animation campaigns.

Yuasa asked for $150,000 to produce a 10-minute short. Gagné set his goal at $15,000 to produce one-minute of film, with each additional minute produced at a $15K increment. However, both films share one thing in common: they have budgeted their animation at $15,000 per minute.

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