I don’t know how true the $10m is, but I’ve seen the figure in quite a few websites.
For context, the average cost of a Demon Slayer episode is just around $80,000. If you double the runtime, you get $160,000 which is still way way below this probable budget of Invincible.
It feels like all the budget for Invincible went into it’s expensive voice cast list rather than the animation…
Personally I would rather have quality animation with a cheaper but good voice cast list…than celeb voice cast with 90’s animation
Bro, if true, 10m for a 50 minutes animation is far far above the average budget of an anime episode.
And yet these episodes are of way higher animation quality.
Demon Slayer: Mugen Train movie cost only $15m. And that is an animated movie with insane 2D animation
Most high end anime have average episode cost of around $100,000
I don’t think you realise how fast 10m can go in america’s economy. I don’t think it’s comparable to japanimation. the way titmouse functions is very different.
I think in some ways the animation is better than in season 1, and is some ways it’s not.
first, they hired a bunch of color artists, which I follow on instagram; that’s why the image look so cinematic and vibrant in s2. https://www.instagram.com/yoshivuart/
lots of visual developement too. the blackhole on episode 4, the galaxy that allan goes through, The sun shining a deep light when he gets attacked by the vultrimites. all that need pre production artists that design these things.
The acting look very nice to me. But I think the season 1 battles were better.
And It’s the responsability of 2D line animators, and it’s really expensive to fully animate 1 shot.
in thraxa’s fight they use a lot of pseudo animation to save budget.
. and the blood isn’t as well animated. But still a lot of work from character designers goes into how they get hurt. https://www.instagram.com/p/C0CxCk9v8RD/?img_index=2