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Analyzing XKCD: Click and Drag

by malloc47 on 9/19/12, 2:34 PM with 14 comments

• by bjarkijonasson on 9/19/12, 2:47 PM

  "If Randall spent, on average, one hour drawing each frame, it would take him 9.375 days of constant, nonstop work to finish this. If he instead spent an average of 10 minutes per frame, it would take ~37.5 hours, or almost an entire 40-hour work week."

  This statement is a bit flawed since he doesn't differentiate between almost empty frames and frames with much detail. It obviously took longer to create frames with a lot of details than empty frames or frames with little detail.

  Still, it's an interesting post. Randall clearly put a lot of time and effort into creating the "Click and drag" world.

• by eSyr on 9/20/12, 6:38 AM

  http://libesyr.so/dump/montage.png http://libesyr.so/dump/montage_small.png

• by laacz on 9/20/12, 6:08 AM

  I believe, that time Randall spent planning and sketching before actually drawing it, should be taken in account. I really hope Randall (though he is not very open on such things) would give "making of" info.

• by Zarathust on 9/19/12, 3:23 PM

  Anyone managed to stitch together the full picture?