I estimate about 10 to 15 hours per minute of finished product. Total around 300 hours. I could devote about 30 to 40 hours/week. I'd probably take a week off work to devote full time (60-80 hours) for 1 week. So for 2 people that would be about 7 weeks at roughly 20 hours/week. I would use more than 2 people if available. I ceated several 1 minute anims that took over 40 hours, most of which was fixing Spline Interpolations between keyframes. The second biggest time consumer was synching audio to the action. I have a quick fix for the next time. Those 2 things took around 70% of the total time just repairing what I did. I don't think phonemes are very important for articulating lips in a cartoon. None of the cartoons I see come close to the actual word phonemes/mouth positions. Several more short cuts I intend to use are to write script around the motions, mocaps, objects, animals & sets that I already have. 22 minutes is 1 half hour episode. Once I/we have a library of motions & characters, the time per episode would drop- not to mention the learning curve factor. If actual money entered the picture more people could be hired, or we could dedicate ourselves full time. regards, Pack cady.patrick@acd.net