Quote - how long would it take to do a simple 10 second animation then?

using iceboy's tutorial as a guide, it would take 10 minutes to create each frame (no props, empty scene, default lighting, preview mode).  hence it would take 101030/60 = 50 hours (1 week) to set up the movie (no props, empty scene, default lighting, preview mode).  unless various shortcuts were used, e.g. bvh or prepackaged pose files.

it takes a year or two to learn how to do this IMVHO.  in a commercial movie, they may allow 15 minutes per rendered frame, but they are gonna cut alotta frames and they've got hundreds of gofers working on it.