{"id":540,"date":"2008-08-15T01:27:25","date_gmt":"2008-08-14T21:27:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/opportunities\/2008\/08\/15\/re-how-much-should-i-charge-for-this-animation-gig\/"},"modified":"2008-08-15T01:27:25","modified_gmt":"2008-08-14T21:27:25","slug":"re-how-much-should-i-charge-for-this-animation-gig","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/opportunities\/2008\/08\/15\/re-how-much-should-i-charge-for-this-animation-gig\/","title":{"rendered":"Re: how much should i charge for this animation gig"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is completely relative and depends =<br \/>\non who the end client is.<\/p>\n<div>I am producing a non profit animation project =<br \/>\nright now, and my animator makes $500 a 3 minute clip, flat.<\/div>\n<div>I am =<br \/>\nsure many of you would laugh at that but for him it is great, low key work t=<br \/>\nhat helps him build his portfolio.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>But if your clie=<br \/>\nnt is a giant ad agency, sure, you can and should charge $160 an hour.<\/div>\n<p>=<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>-Sarah<\/div>\n<div><\/p>\n<div>\n<div>On Aug 14, 2008, at 10:00=<br \/>\n AM, Jeff Galusha wrote:<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<div>as much as you can charge? ha ha h=<br \/>\na&nbsp;&nbsp; <\/div>\n<div>I would stay away from giving a quote for the whol=<br \/>\ne gig, this is a paid by the hour or day job.&nbsp; <\/div>\n<div>&nbsp;<\/div>\n<p>=<\/p>\n<div>I think you would charge somewhere between 25 hr to 60 hr (although th=<br \/>\ne 3D work could be more).<\/div>\n<div>I think the rate needs to be decided ba=<br \/>\nsed on your experience and the artists budget.&nbsp; You should work out the=<br \/>\n pay rate with the artist, then put it down on paper with&nbsp;pay dates and=<br \/>\n get the artist to sign it.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div>Jeff<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> On Thu, Aug 14, 2008 at 9:15 AM, Lucia J. Lee &lt;smellsdreamy@gmai=<br \/>\nl.com&gt;<\/span> wrote:<br \/>  wise listies,<\/p>\n<p>I am about to do this freelance animation =<br \/>\ngig for an artist.<br \/>The artist is working on a film and a<font>lmost all the media has been created &amp;amp=<br \/>\n; collected, while she&#8217;s putting everything together.<br \/> She wants me to do=<br \/>\n some 3D animation and retouch some sequences with After Effect and Photosho=<br \/>\np, and possibly, a video shot.<br \/>I have no idea how much I should charge.any idea? <\/p>\n<p>please let me know. i need to know by end of the day. <br \/>thanks,<\/p>\n<p>L<\/p>\n<p><\/font><\/div>\n<p>&#8212;<br \/>\nmail.com&#8221; target=3D&#8221;_blank&#8221;&gt;xgalusha@gmail.com<br \/>\n8.0dc6d8f2aa791e6d435e35685ba9b3ce@lists.nyu.edu&#8221; target=3D&#8221;_blank&#8221;&gt;leave-95=<br \/>\n10197-2490558.0dc6d8f2aa791e6d435e35685ba9b3ce@lists.nyu.edu <\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/div>\n<p> &#8212;<br \/>\non.net&#8221;&gt;sarah@lefton.net<br \/>\n2.3ebd771c0e247d0aacb920157f2fed4f@lists.nyu.edu&#8221;&gt;leave-9510757-3902632.3ebd=<br \/>\n771c0e247d0aacb920157f2fed4f@lists.nyu.edu<\/p><\/div>\n<p><BR><br \/>\n&#8212;<br \/>\nbe296b3d9de53741@lists.nyu.edu<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is completely relative and depends = on who the end client is. I am producing a non profit animation project = right now, and&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-540","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-listserv","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/opportunities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/540","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/opportunities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/opportunities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/opportunities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/opportunities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=540"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/opportunities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/540\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/opportunities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=540"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/opportunities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=540"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/opportunities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=540"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}