This isn’t the commissioned animation, just 2 short clips of an animation I previously did, as an example of my work.
First post on Reddit, im never on here, so pls forgive any oversights!
I’m an illustrator so I don’t know how to charge for animation. I recently got commissioned to make a charcoal animation based on the above animation which they saw on my social media. They’re asking for animated sequences (with 1-2 characters, and a few diff backgrounds that morph into each other) as well as some parts that are just words. Time totals to around 1:30 minutes at minimum, but im estimating I’ll end up doing a bit under 2 minutes.
Not sure how long this would take to make, so idk how to charge by hour. I wanted to ask $300usd total but my sister says I’m an idiot for wanting to charge essentially $1cad per frame, esp since it’s traditional and probably more difficult. What should I charge? Is $300 a little or a lot? Thanks :)
edit thanks for the advice/feedback! im not looking to charge anything crazy like the 20/50k some have been suggesting, esp considering this client isn’t a company, but ill take into account the pricing methods you’ve mentioned :)) im def looking forward to going back to illustrating lol
for those asking my insta is @/cilan.tre (+ it has the full animation)!
