During our five month adventure we created over 50 thousand files. To be fair, the movie was three minutes long at 24 frames per second and at some point every frame was saved as a separate  file so even if we only created each frame once that is over 4,300 files.   That would have been nice to create each frame once but we created each segment multiple times.  The estimate of 50 thousand is probably low.   Dave and I needed to come up with a system to manage the files as well as share them between us while we worked on the movie.    Dave was working on a Windows machine and I had a Mac.  We each kept our own file structure that worked for us.  Dave set up a google share drive that we would use to send files back and forth.  Some files were as large as 150Mb.   My file structure contained separate folders  for potential source material such as sounds,  graphics, and poster ideas.   Almost every graphic element was created by us.  Some of the elements such as the logos and star fields were made in Adobe Illustrator or Photoshop so they have their own folders.

The original footage was kept in one folder and the frames from each segment of the movie, as well as the completed video, audio, and animation, segments in others.  I see a few folders in there with example frames for problems that we were working through such as image quality, masking, color grading and test footage.  An early test included beaming my daughter out of our basement.