I just finished animating. I will be done as soon an Carroll gets a few lines to me.

I think the longer your deadline is, the more you procrastinate.

Then I still have a chance.

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In THAC, it's relatively easy to sleep extra the days before and after and thus be awake for the entirety of the 24 hours.  BRAWL, however, is too long for someone to stay up all the way through it.  Assuming one sleeps every night and spends time on some small other details like eating and such I'm going to guess they could only work on their film for about 12 hours a day.  That results in a total of 84 hours, or about three and a half days.

So theoretically, a BRAWL film could have 250% more effort put into it compared to a THAC video.
Of course, factor in procrastination, and this could be lowered substantially.

An important thing about length though is that different bits of animation take longer than others.  Some things take longer, some are faster.  For my Batman film I spent months on a mere 20 seconds of animation.  The hardest bit I've ever done.
Though, generally for a contest like this it would probably be a better idea to focus on a shorter animation that's really good looking rather than a long one as upload and render time are entirely unaffected by how many hours you spent on a specific shot.  And sometimes that can be what kills your video.

I've been really wanting to make a THAC video one year that's really short with no script so I don't have to spend time voicing which takes up several hours and make a wordless story with really impressive animation.

To add to Squid's point: Most BiM members are still in some form of school (high school, college, whatever) and generally have the summer off, which means BRAWL is only interrupted by the essentials of eating, sleeping, and misc socializing.

I, on the other hand, work 9-5 weekdays. BRAWL started at 4 pm on Saturday, and for the rest of the night I brainstormed and started on props. I had all day Sunday to finalize my story and make progress on the set. But for Monday through Friday, I've had to work, commute, make dinner, and do all of the normal things one needs to do to maintain an apartment. So I've only had about 3-4 hours per weeknight to work on my entry.

It's been a challenge. I've definitely simplified my animation to the essentials, and I hope to rely more on cinematography and sound design to tell my story. But boy, I do feel like I have very little time.

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Did a bunch of animating and some minor editing today, Still behind in animation by a bit but I think I'll make it.

My entry was a little weird in that it had two distinct parts that make sense together in the end, but could kind of be their own stand alone thing.  I've run out of time to complete it all, so I think I'll only have the second part actually in it.  I intend to go and finish the first part and release that after BRAWL's completed.

So for now, I've finished all the animation that will be in the entry and I started color correcting last night.  I'll finish color correcting tonight, edit (hopefully) most of it, and try and do the soundtrack tomorrow.  I've only got about a half day Friday to work on it and then I'll have to be done; BRAWL ends at 3pm Saturday for me, I'm busy all day Saturday and most of the afternoon Friday.

For the most part, I'm real happy with how my entry has turned out and I think it'll probably be my best film yet, technically.  The story in Perpetual Twilight was a little more interesting because it was entirely original, but I think this will still probably be the better film (once it's all done). 

Good luck to everyone, you'd better be finishing up soon.  I can't wait to watch all the entries!

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Finished animating, oh yeah! All I've got to do is everything else.

Well, this is my last day for BRAWL as I'm leaving on a trip tomorrow. I'm really hoping I'll get this done. I have one more scene to shoot, and then I'll edit.