This is another difficult question, because the answer is different for everyone.
这又是一个很难的问题，因为答案往往因人而异。

Malcolm Gladwell说对任何人来说要想对某事真正熟练，一般要花一万小时左右来做练习。
Malcolm Gladwell writes that it takes, on average, 10,000 hours of practice and study for anyone to become truly proficient at something.

对我而言，我刚刚用计算器算了一下，从我这学校里学习和练习动画（包括人像素描这些），和我的导师一起的时间，还有我自己做动画的时间。我把这些全加到一起，算出来从一开始到我得到梦想中的ILM的工作，我的动画教育时间是18400小时。
For myself, I just added up on a calculator all the time I spent studying/practicing animation in school (including stuff like figure drawing), time with my mentors, and animating on my own. I added all of that up, and it turns out that my animation education time before landing my dream job at ILM was 18,400 hours.
听起来挺吓人的吧，而且很明显，我花的时间远远超过1万小时，但是我们确实是在谈论5年集中学习动画，从而能够有一个demo去进入ILM，我不知道这是不是平均水平，比较快，还是比较慢的，但是我们每个人在学习吸收动画营养时，进步速度并不相同。
That might sound daunting, and it clearly took me more than the requisite 10,000 hours, but really we're just talking about 5 years of focused studying in order to have a reel that got me into ILM. I have no idea if that's average, fast, or slow, but we're all going to have different speeds as we study and absorb this animation stuff.
我猜这个所谓达到动画精湛的“必需”小时数根本就是一个人一个样。我觉得实际的小时数是不相关的——重要的是你是否专注于动画上。
I would guess that the number of hours "necessary" to excel in animation would be radically different from one person to the next. I think the actual number of hours is irrelevant -- what matters is how much you can focus on animation.
对我来说，尤其是我集中学习动画的那4年，动画就是我的生活。如果我清醒着，我就是在做动画。这可真的不是夸张。我不怎么跟朋友们出去，也没有女朋友，我错过很多让我想看得要命的电影，我不去玩非常想玩的视频游戏，就这样，动画就是我的生活。
For me, especially during the 4 years where I was focusing the most on learning this stuff, animation was my life. If I was awake, I was animating. That literally isn't really much of an exaggeration. I wasn't going out much with friends, I didn't have a girlfriend, I was missing movies I had been excited to see, I didn't get to play the video games I wanted to play, etc. Animation was my life.
也许老那样达成目标是不太健康的啦，但是确实可能是最快的，而且真的管用。
Maybe that isn't always the healthiest way to approach something, but it's probably the fastest, and certainly works.
我知道不是每个人都可以一整天专注于做动画——你有家庭或者非动画的工作要做，或者其他的责任要承担。没错，我的建议只是尽你所能的专注。如果你能每个晚上等你孩子睡觉后有5个小时，那么可以开始用这5个小时来做动画，学动画。
I know not everyone has the option of focusing their whole day on animation - you have families or non-animation jobs and other responsibilities. Well, my advice then is to just focus as much time as you can. If all you can do is 5 hours every night after your kids go to bed, then start spending those 5 hours animating or studying animation.
每晚5个小时，一年就是1780小时。如果你在每个周末还能腾出额外的10个小时来，那你就每年有2300小时了，突然似乎1万小时也并非遥不可及了是吧！
5 hours a night is 1,780 hours per year. If you manage to squeeze in an extra 10 hours each weekend, then you're talking about 2,300 hours per year, and suddenly that 10,000 hours doesn't seem so far off!
我希望动画是你可以用几个月来学习到的东西。但是根本不是。这是一个无止境的复杂艺术，要花毕生时间去掌握。第一个一万小时只是让你窥见冰山顶端的一角。我们够幸运的，冰山其余的部分蕴藏着大把的乐趣有待于我们花接下来的十万个小时去探索呢！
I wish animation was something you could learn in a few months, but it just isn't. It's an endlessly complex art that takes a lifetime to master, and that first 10,000 hours will only get you to the tip of the iceberg. Luckily for us, the rest of that iceberg is a ton of fun to spend that next 100,000 hours exploring!

希望对你有帮助！
Hope that helps!
Shawn :)