I want to know how many people an animation company needs, how much it costs to make a 30-minute animation, how many people and how much time it takes!

You need to find an example for reference. ? Without a reference standard, it is impossible to estimate what you need and how much you need.

1, planning, usually involving producer, screenwriter and producer, decides what kind of animation to shoot, what to talk about generally, and whether it is original or original adaptation (if it is original adaptation, the original author will also participate).

2. Script, as the name implies, the screenwriter begins to write the script. They conceive the plot, first from the perspective of the whole drama, and then to every line of each episode. An animated story can be arranged by one person, or different people can be responsible for different dramas.

3, setting, from character setting, background setting to art setting, in order to let the painter have a basic reference when drawing in the post-production, it is first necessary to make basic settings for the characters and environment involved in animation.

4. Split mirror: When you get the specific script of each episode (that is, the script of the episode), someone will be responsible for drawing the split mirror of each episode. Split-shot is to turn the script into a picture as the basic framework of each episode, such as spatial relationship, lens movement, lens time, dividing line and text description of some places that can't be drawn (sometimes even BGM with matching can be specified), and it doesn't need to be very detailed when drawing.

5. Composition (layout is also called L/O). According to the shot draft, the layout is needed first. The split lens is a rough design, so what is the position of the characters in the picture, what kind of actions they have, what the background should be, how the lens should move, the light source and so on. , need to be clearly marked with layout. After the layout check is completed, it can only be handed over to the foreground of the original painting and the background of the art painting. Because the original paintings are all painted in units of CUT, some cuts that don't need to change the background will be represented by L/O.

6. The original painting, that is, the foreground painting, according to the layout and perspective draft, takes the cutting as the unit (1 cutting is generally an action), and the picture inside the painting can be simply understood as the key picture in the whole animation, such as the turning picture. The original painter may draw a front, half, and then draw a completely better one. (In the movie, it is to act as an actor. )

7, animation, responsible for filling the painting between the two original paintings, so that the whole action and picture are smooth. Although Japanese animation is said to be 24 frames per second, in fact, according to the usually limited animation technology, animation is actually 8 frames per second (3コマ) or 12 frames per second (2コマ).

8, color distribution, before you start painting, you should specify colors for all parts of the picture, and you can't miss any part.

9. Coloring, as the name implies, is to scan the drawn pictures into the computer and color the pictures one by one according to the specified color.

6-9, background, is to draw the background, and the original painting, animation, while coloring.

9. Photography: A series of things such as characters and backgrounds that have been drawn before are synthesized on the computer, and some special visual effects, lighting effects, filters, etc. can also be added. Now the common 3DCG technology is also synthesized into animation in this step.

10, editing, recording, composing and video editing are completed (note that seiyuu dubbing used to be done before the animation was completed but not completely edited, but now many of them dub directly to the original scanned into the computer).