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I've read through some questions about financing anime and so on, but don't
know how long it takes to produce a complete cour of anime. I'm ~~talking~~
writing about 12 to 13 episodes, of a standard-length anime (roughly 20
minutes, nothing like Aiura).

Is there an average time needed to produce a series? Are we talking about
months?


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How long does producing a cour take?


We are definitely talking about months here, if not year(s).

Lets first take a look at what has to be done to produce a anime to begin
with. The image as found [washibi's
blog](https://washiblog.wordpress.com/2011/01/18/anime-production-detailed-
guide-to-how-anime-is-made-and-the-talent-behind-it/) will help with that.

[![https://washiblog.wordpress.com/2011/01/18/anime-production-detailed-guide-
to-how-anime-is-made-and-the-talent-behind-
it/](https://i.stack.imgur.com/TxuqG.jpg)](https://i.stack.imgur.com/TxuqG.jpg)

Here we can see that there are 4 mayor factors to the production of a anime.

  * Pre-production (planning)
  * Script/Scenario writing
  * in-production
  * post-production

## Pre-Production (1 Week / 2-3
Months)[(1)](http://aminoapps.com/page/anime/3796840/how-anime-is-made-
preproduction-very-detailed)

Pre-Production is usually quite short. It covers obtaining sponsors, planning
the costs and who they want to work with, such as the voice actors/artists

Especially bigger studios, whom already have a basic set of people to work
with, and money available it will take shorter then for say an upcoming
animation studio.

## Script/Scenario writing (1-2 days / 1-2 weeks per episode)

Script/scenario planning covers the planning of an episode, here they roughly
produce sketches about what scenes should look and feel like, design
characters, pick colors, plan dialogues etc.

Often novels or manga are used as a basis for this, reducing the requirements.
But for an original anime, or diverging stories the time needed might even go
up as far as 1 month per episode, to plan things out in more detail.

The size of the used team is also important to how long this takes in total,
as bigger studios will be able to plan several episodes at the same time, as
opposed to smaller studios, which will be able to plan 1 or 2 at the time.

## In-production (1-2 weeks / episode)

This is the part where all the fancy stuff starts. The process of animation,
cleaning rendering and everything relevant to it.

## Post-production(+- 1 week / episode)

This is where voice actors start to come in. They will have to record the
required audio, add music and sound effects to the scene, and do a final round
of editing to clear out some of the left over mistakes.

## So a cour takes +- 6 months?

Yep, in the most positive scenario it will take about 6-7 months to create a
'cour' from scratch. And with a bit of bad luck, it can run up to 1~2 years
even. Which all depends on the team size, how efficiently they can work
together, and how much of the production can be done side by side.

  * 1 week pre-production
  * 2-3 weeks pre-production
  * +- 12 weeks in-production
  * +- 12 weeks post-production
  * thus 27 weeks or ~7 months total


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