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Ktimene's Lover



Joined: 23 Apr 2005
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PostPosted: Sat Sep 03, 2005 11:07 am Reply with quote
I noticed anime has basically almost no weekly breaks for its "year long season". In the 80s, UY had almost 200 episodes. Back then, before the start of computers to aid making it, it would take months to create one episode. However, how long does it take to make an episode today (esp. ones high in CGI), and why do they make new episodes almost none stop for years?
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Mugen The Great



Joined: 26 Jun 2005
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PostPosted: Sun Sep 04, 2005 6:42 am Reply with quote
Well, 1 episode of The Simpsons takes 9 months to make, so I assume that it takes almost that much time to make an episode of a higher-budget anime like Samurai 7 or Ghost on the Shell: 2nd Gig and half that much time for an episode of a typical anime production like Detective Conan or One Piece. I think with most 26-episode shows, the entire thing is written, voiced and animated before or at most halfway through the show's run. With 52-episode-per-season shows, I'm guessing production is finished on close deadlines a few weeks before the episode airs.
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Randall Miyashiro



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PostPosted: Sun Sep 04, 2005 4:29 pm Reply with quote
From what I recall there is a more reruns in the US. At least that was the case back in the 80s. The only anime titles I remember catching on reruns were Lupin, Gundam, and Zeta. Most anime is aired once without summer reruns. This might have changed within the last few years though.
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Coffeeman



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PostPosted: Mon Sep 05, 2005 8:50 am Reply with quote
It depends on a lot of things.

I know that in the past, things were made for schedule using the classic "tricks" that are seen as par for the course now - re-used frames such as faces with mouths that move independently, still images for action scenes with camera pans, stock footage and the like, repeating foregrounds with still backgrounds, all this kind of thing, helped an anime to get out on schedule.

Now, I think it depends on a lot of things; how new the material is, the writing, the production all take time, the animation takes longer on a newer series, use of CG etc. but I think the companies have some idea, so they start early enough to make sure they'll probably be on schedule.
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