Sports Antics

Mikdog · Post by **Mikdog** » Mon Mar 03, 2008 2:00 pm

Something I put together for another job a buddy had, from his client that asked him to animate some stuff. I won't keep the video up for long. Just wanted to demonstrate Anime Studio Pro 5 'fast-ish' animation. I had 12 little animations to make, and I made them in 3 and a half days. The brief gave me what the characters looked like, and a list of animations that had to be done. They were just like 'Two people rowing' or 'a guy bungee jumping' and he allowed me to add some 'acting' in them. The music's my brother's remix of ANOTHER ONE BITES THE DUST.

Here's the video:

-took it down-

EDIT: Got my money at last. That was an unpleasant experience. Not keen to do more work for them.

slowtiger · Post by **slowtiger** » Mon Mar 03, 2008 2:08 pm

Nice stuff. Of course it could be improved to your usual standard with a bit of squash&stretch, and some tilting of the characters - but it's a good result for that short time. Hope you got paid adequately!

Mikdog · Post by **Mikdog** » Mon Mar 03, 2008 2:21 pm

thanks.

I agree, they are kind of static and could use a lot more manipulating.

Yep, I was promised payment, so, still waiting for that to come through

I guess I can say how much I got paid: R3,600.00 (That's South African Rand. To convert that into dollars go to www.xe.com, but I estimate it's about $530.00

One of the HUGE downsides about a rush-job is that it's work I'm never happy with. I'm QUITE happy with this because I know how much work I crammed into the short time, but I really don't dig it when i see posteres saying "I did this in only 1 day!" Because it's evident they didn't spend a lot of time on it. it really shows. I guess you can't fool anyone. I'm learning to just let it go, but it bugs me that there's more stuff to do.

No word on Happy Land yet. The broadcasters are still finding out how much money they can spend on a license agreement, so in the meantime I'm putting stories together etc... Kind of frustrating, but I'm ok with it. Had to take this corporate job to avoid going seriously broke!

slowtiger · Post by **slowtiger** » Mon Mar 03, 2008 3:21 pm

That's 310 Euro - you're selling much too cheap! (Wel, I do as well. Sigh.)

Don't worry about the result. They wanted it fast, they got it fast and in much better than deserved quality for the money.

Samb · Post by **Samb** » Mon Mar 03, 2008 4:11 pm

$530?? O_o

thats really cheap... even if it is for a friend... best friend.. or... brother

yes, it's nice for the short time.
but... man.. $530

Mikdog · Post by **Mikdog** » Mon Mar 03, 2008 7:38 pm

He he. With the current exchange rate, it's actually $450.00. I know its crazy. I'll try wrangle a better deal with other stuff. Bit of a tough situation. Do I price animation higher, and possibly not get work from people, or shaft myself and undervalue prices, but still get work? Maybe pricing work higher will still work. I'm nervous to do it, in case I lose the job, because I'd feel silly saying 'Ok, so you don't want to pay that, maybe I can make it cheaper. Still too expensive? I'll make it cheaper." maybe the way to do it is to say "You can't afford it? Too bad. Try someone else." I wonder what a good rule-of-thumb for animation pricing is? I remember seeing $50.00 per second. I can't imagine a South African paying that much for animation. I'll try it sometime and see what happens.

oferhod · Post by **oferhod** » Tue Mar 04, 2008 12:15 pm

Too many times i find myself working for too little.

I lose twice this way:
1. little money
2. I do a job that is useless for my portfolio

Resetly, I said no to a big company, because of the price. and I really feel good about it!

...Well.. ok...not that good.. but still, ok