Are animations always supposed to take so long? [One anim]

[Unknow0059]

I made the following animation in 24 frames, it took me around 3 hours. It's been years since i've made an animation in Pivot and put effort into it. Are they always supposed to take so long to make?

I didn't plan for it to look like this. I was going to make the character run to and do a backflip on a wall, but i made it shorter once i noticed it was taking too long. I'm not necessarily looking for feedback (although it would be nice) i just want an answer to the question.

[Gary]

Depends on your skills with pivot and what you can and can't easily do. The more you animate, the easier things get to animate, resulting in more quickly made animations.

[SIFTER]

In pivot resources section I put my most recent project for download. There you will fing a .log file where I recorded my whole progress. You'll see how long it took me. But yeah, animation takes ages even for the fastest animator. You can take up to a week on 100 frames of just roughs (rough guidelines for fullbody)