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$14,400 per episode just for the celluloid sheets; not to draw anything on them, not to have extra to replace bad/damaged/revisions, not to scan/photograph them onto film or digital; not to clean them up, not to store them, categorize and organize them, and not considering that they’re usually drawn and photographed in layers of more than one.
Or you can license Toon Boom Harmony Premium for like $133/month per seat and it renders full quality straight to a file you can drop into your NLE.
My husband has also reminded me that rarely was any given frame of animation a single cel; characters, eyes, mouths, anything moving often got its own cel to make it easier to make changes to.
Math gets hard here because it really just depends on what’s going on for how many cels will be used at once, but let’s lowball it and multiply that figure by a 2.5 average for $36k/episode.
Math is hard and Blender is free