"Hercules Footage Report".
The final weekly report.
We used "footage" to asses the work total.
(1 foot = 16 frames of 35mm film). The goal was to average 5' a week (16x5 =80 frames).
My own animation total was 4 minutes of the film.
Along with supervising others, and attending countless meetings.
Assuming my math is correct that's like 5760 frames of animation at 24FPS or 2880 at 12FPS... Wow, that's a lot.
Jul 16, 2025 01:28Close..
377' x 16 frames= 6,032 frames.
Film is literally 16 frames per 12 inches when measured.
Some images are held for 2 frames, some for 1 frame. The number of total drawings then, about 4,200. Roughs first, final roughs, and redrawn completely hey the Clean-up drawings. 10,500 pieces of paper?
Good lord. I can only imagine the amount of effort that went into all those frames. I've dabbled a bit with animation myself as a hobby thing, longest one I made was... maybe 500-600 frames? About a minute at a constant 12fps, I'd guess somewhere between 300-400 unique frames factoring holds?
...Well, not really "made" so much as "making". I haven't finished it yet, I was working on the shading pass.
But that minute or so of animation is something I've been working on here & there for months. I think since... end of April, start of May?
And with that experience I will say, while I tend not to agree with how many studios conduct their business (I hear it is a very crunch-heavy industry), I still have serious respect for the animators themselves. It's a difficult line of work. Rewarding, but difficult.
