Attached Link: http://www.monstersmovie.com/howmade.htm

Monsters of the Id guy has interesting comments:

Comparisons

So I am one man, one PC working for about 3 years. Stylised CGI. My first film 'The War of the Starfighters' will be similar in statistics to 'Monsters of the Id'. It cost about £3000, and was 1,350 shots long, 2,500 hours work, on average over 2 hours work a day saw 4 seconds of finished movie per day.

*This is how it compares to other more visually complex CGIs. 'Captain Scarlet' TV CGI series cost £23 million, 140 computers, 280 people, 2 years to make. 'Toy Story' cost $30 million and used 110 animators. 'Shrek' used 500 computers, used 300 animators, took 4 years to make 1000 shots. A good CGI animator can make 4 seconds of finished footage a week. Not sure what we can make of all that but it is interesting.

*He then goes on to talk about the issue of "snobbery".