Pretty interesting, would be cool to see smaller budget examples and maybe man hours of work per second for animators who post stuff for free.
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Your numbers are all fucked up bro.
Let's take the movie Tangled for example.
Completed project:
260 mil budget
100 min runtime
if each second of animation cost $49,059 per second, the film would have exceeded costs of 294 million from the animation ALONE.
You are also forgetting all the other elements that make up budget in a film.
Story rights
Screenplay
Producers
Director
Cast/Voice Actors
Production costs
Music
I mention all of that
AcidX
That's a great post man.
In the past, I've worked with a sales team who sold small little animated clips for websites, as a part of our web designs. They struggled with pricing and how to structure it so I had to write/explain it and basically winged it.
Then explaining to other personal clients that the going rate generally starts at about $1k per minute of animation, for an independent animator .... the clients always try to undercut and act like they know better because they had a budget in mind.
This article is going to really help calmly push that point home in the future. Nice one :)
calslater
Awesome, I'm glad! Yeah, freelancers don't have to charge THIS much, but it'll help clients realize Pixar level stuff doesn't come cheap.
What I usually do is start with their budget, since that's the most solid variable, and let them know the time/quality they can expect.