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
It shows how western animation is behind japanese, a bad animation for season 1 is justified because of the risk. But with how big invincible is now I thought the animation would be better, at least on big moments like the invasion and there’s only 8 episodes that takes 2 years between seasons.
Exactly. They have all these big celebs doing voices for minor characters. Like what’s even the point? You could be using that budget to the improve animation instead of hiring big names for every single npc in the show
We also guessed wrongly. Because S1 was a risk, we excused the plain and cheap animation. But we all assumed “Okay, now S1 was a smash success. S2 will surely look much better with a bigger budget. A franchise is officially born”. Turns out that wasn’t the case. S2 often looks cheaper than S1!
This is silly there are a lot of bad animation in anime and a lot of time the good animation isn’t budget related but because the Japanese companies run their animators into the ground.
Lol, there is bad animation in anime, but whenever an anime has bad animation they get animation, they get crucified and called out for it. Western audience give their animation to much leeway.