24d • 🚀 Motivation
Less than 60 minutes and went viral. 🚀
Just did a speed run that still blows my mind.
I created a dance animation for a friend of mine who has a game character I built for her, named Kauni, in under 60 minutes using AI and it's going viral on YouTube. Instead of the usual spike and flat plateau, views are going straight up.
Not a rough draft. Not a storyboard. A usable clip I can iterate on right away.
Here is the wild part...
When I did this the traditional CG way, this is what the pipeline looks like:
Traditional CG animation pipeline with approximate time
- Concept and character design: 2 to 8 hours
- Modeling or sculpting: 1 to 3 days
- Retopo and UVs: 4 to 12 hours
- Texturing and materials: 1 to 2 days
- Rigging and skin weights: 1 to 3 days
- Facial rig or blendshapes: 1 to 4 days
- Animation blocking and polish: 2 to 7 days
- Cloth and hair sims if needed: 4 hours to 2 days
- Environment modeling or set dressing: 1 to 5 days
- Lighting setup: 2 to 8 hours
- Rendering passes and render time: 4 hours to multiple days
- Compositing: 2 to 8 hours
- Color grade: 1 to 3 hours
- Post edits and export: 1 to 4 hours
Note: The third image shows the before/after of the game character converted to 3d animated character without AI.
Traditional total (solo creator):
Fast path: roughly 8 to 12 days
Typical path: roughly 3 to 5 weeks
Polished path with sims and revisions: 6 to 10 weeks
This is why AI animation feels like a cheat code right now!
AI animation pipeline I used:
- Generate a consistent character image: 5 to 15 minutes
- Generate the dance motion: 5 to 20 minutes
- Add subtle camera movement and scene realism: 5 to 15 minutes
- Export and iterate: 2 to 10 minutes
AI total
Fast path: 15 to 25 minutes
Typical path: 25 to 45 minutes
With extra iterations: 45 to 90 minutes
The big shift is not just speed... It is creative momentum!
When you can go from idea to motion in minutes, you stop overthinking and start testing. You can try 10 variations in a day instead of protecting 1 version you spent a week on.
Question for you: When it comes to starting or scaling your online journey, what is holding you back?
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Less than 60 minutes and went viral. 🚀
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