Notes on YOUR Monthly Transformation Movie (and some of the guidelines I follow to make it!) (Patreon)

How long can you expect the monthly animated movies to be? READ ON!

Wanted to drop an update for the Animation tier (and other groups) to highlight some of the fun updates you can expect in your monthly animations.

Something which comes up every now and then are questions about the length of the monthly animation. I want to reiterate my goal each month is mostly around getting you as many quality transformation minutes of animations as I can. I’m talking about the whole package, the drawings, color, production, sound effects, visual effects… everything. That’s what I work on each month the most. Right up there alongside this is putting together an interesting and fun story.

What I’m getting at is I don’t always sit down and say I want to do five or 10 or 20 minutes of animation. I normally lean on the workload of specific shots to determine how long the final animations can be. A lot of times if I put a bunch of horsepower into a few scenes I just naturally end up with less time for other shots. I still aim to give YOU a consistent amount of transformation variety and amount each and every month. I’ll even go so far as to say I try to increase that as much as possible each month. So, when you see the animation minutes vary from month-to-month you’re looking at a variance in miscellaneous story bits versus transformation bits.

Some of you longtimers might recall an era before we had color movies when runtimes were closing in on 20 minutes a month. Adding color movies and a lot of the new niceties ended up eating into the overall runtimes but I think most people view it as a fair trade.

I want to add every single time I’ve ever had a poll and asked people if they are okay with a higher quality animation even if it means slightly shorter movies the answer is pretty much a resounding yes.

Short version is, no matter how long the overall movie is you will probably be getting the same or more transformation minutes embedded in that movie from month-to-month. It can change, of course, but my main goal is to give you cool transformation action of the BE, GTS and FMG variety. Right now movies are landing in a roughly 7-12 minute runtime. 

Wanted to put that one out there since I feel it’s a fair topic especially for people who are joining or looking to join the Patreon and wondering what some of the guidelines I use for making your animations are.

Look forward to another great animation this month with a new character and lots of returning ones.

Thank you again and I will talk with you soon!

-Ready