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My contact/paypal: mayshing@gmail.com

 

Dear potiential client:

I typically will ask for 20%-50% down payment for first time client,
to whatever I will be delivering before I do the work,
after I deliver then I will ask for the remaining agreed amount.
because this way ensures me to know you are a serious client.

  • *Reason: I have met too many people who wanted me to do work for free, thus I developed this system.
    If that's not the way you do things, talk to me about it.
    if you are a reputable and established client, I will work with your system.

    • Reputable: a producer/professional from a studio that handled commercial projects and hire freelancers
    • Established client: 2nd time client I have worked with
    • Note: Indie studios commissions are considered as private clients

  • Notes about contacting me: I am an e-mail person.
  • I am on e-mail all the time, or most of the time.
    If I am going out of the country I will notify you ahead of time and rearrange the changes
  • I don't use MSN/AIM/skype regularly, if you want to see me there, we need an appointment.
    make sure you tell me your time zone, we are an international community.
    (I will sign on regularly if the job requires me to)
  • I don't use cell phone much, need to know when you will call

    Please don't ask for my facebook, I will ask, find and add you if our working relationship turns out well.

 

Writers:

< Guidelines for character description- for writers>

-please use that guideline to check whether you have included everything in your script, very often I get writers who describe their characters too briefly for me to illustrate. If you are very open minded and want to let me decide, perfect! But I still need some bases.

 

  • What I don't do: pronographic material, animation for free or below my rates.
  • Revisions: I provide 3 free revisions per artwork, if you need more than that we might have to talk.

MY policy - very important!

Hiring: Due to the amount of work I get, there's a likely-hood I will commission someone else to help me finish the work on time and on budget, (I'll let you know if I do so) and I will oversee the quality and delivery, if you are not comfortable with that, let me know ahead of time, but instead of one more name on the credits, you might need to wait longer.

Delivery date: I typically do not want to rush a commission, I will try to give you an update every week or every other week. If you need things in a hurry you need to talk to me, I will try to arrange for your ideal delivery date, HOWEVER, this means you need to pay me extra for the pain you need to put me through, and provide for my need to hire others and put them under the same stress.

 

Rights policy: Typically, if I make work for client, I go with work for hire contract. (e-mail agreement and this page serves as written agreement.) This applies to both my indie/non-commercial client, and commercial clients, my clients are free to use the images as they please. I will not ask for additional reward, even if you went ahead and made 1 million, 1 trillion from it, unless a contract states my royalty share. All I ask is if you consider hiring me back again if you are successful, and give me a bonus or a raise. (but if you wish to use my original work for your projects, that's a whole different issue)

Additional costs: Currently, my practice is not to rise my charges once we come to agreed amount, but i will not work over-time for little pay, so if you want my best, be prepared to pay for it. If you made additional requests, changes, that cost me beyond agreeable time, I will request for more.

 

 
 

 

Illustration:

Normal delivery- no deadline.

Timed delivery- anything less than 2 months is consider timed, I will tell you if i need longer.

 

Quick sketch: SAMPLE -10 USD - no timed delivery prices.

  • Inking a pre-made sketch: - 15 USD
  • Inked/toned piece: -30 USD
  • Redraw your design, and color: - 30 USD
  • 1 character, from script, simple or pre-made background: 40 USD (Each additional character is 30 USD)

Design and layout work:

Design:

 

A single Character turn around sheet, frontal, side, 3/4, and back view, colored, starts at 60 USD+ (rates vary based on complexity)

 

 

Background, layout, scenes: depends on purpose and complexity

Simple- starts at 60 USD (4-5 hours work)

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Highest quality- to 600 USD (30 hours work)

Prefer: naturalistic scenery, old/historic buildings

 

 

Manga /comic commission:

Normal delivery- 20 pages- no deadline

Timed delivery- 20 pages in less than 3 months is consider timed.

 

  • Sketch only for reference- 5 per page / timed: 12 per page

 

  • Inked and toned(b/w)- 30-40 per page/ timed: 80 per page

 

  • Colored pages- 60 per page/ timed: 200 per page

I might be one of the rare ones who would take on a whole book commission,
if you are that serious about it. Payments can be split into chapters or sections, we can talk about details.
However, if I can't understand your script, I will ask you to revise it until I can read it.
(I have gotten scripts with no spacing, grammar, typo everywhere, seriously!)
Please make sure your script has been proof-read, and edited before you send it to me.

 

 

 

Animation:

  • Normal delivery- 1 year or no deadline
  • timed delivery- anything in less than 1 year is timed, count as commerical delivery.
  • Movie Delivery format: Mov, swf, fla, flv, f4v, avi, png sequences, targa sequences (and specific request welcomed)


Storyboarding:

Indie/non-commercial: starting rate 10 USD per storyboard page based on the script, no time delivery.

Commercial rate: based on your studio rates. timed delivery provided.

Animation (just animating rough and clean up from provided storyboard or sequence, no background, no compositing)

  • 15 second/1-2 character: 150 - 300 USD /timed delivery 400-600 USD / rates vary
  • 30 second/1-2 character: 600 USD / timed delivery 1000 USD / rates vary
  • 1 min/1-2 characters, anime style: starts at 3000 USD
  • Quick flash cartoon, limited animation, sets:(think South Park) 1 minute/ starts at 1000 USD

 

 

 

Full animation: where I am responsible for directing, producing, animating, hiring, finishing the movie

$ Rates Vary $

Q: Why the rates vary depending on your project?

There are many things to consider for animation, just to list a few for you:

0. Is this indie or commercial budget?

1. Is this a rushed order? For 30 seconds, anything less than 6 months is a rush for animation, especially if you are looking for my normal style and quality. For pure, simple, 1 character, 1 layout, Flash animation, I can finish 30 seconds in 1 month, given that if I don't have anything else to do.

2. Is it action packed, or it's still? Still animation is cheaper than action packed animation, but still animation cost layout money.

3. If I have to do everything from scratch, or rush it, then I will be hiring others to help me finish the job, thus increase the budget.

4. How many characters is in it? More characters, more complexity, more costly.

5. Do you need voice actors? Is the voice recorded? If you need voices, I need to hire my voice actors and that's extra costs.

6. Sound effects editing is also a time consuming factor to charge for. It takes 1 day to do 5 minute worth of sound effects for me.

7. Compositing and finishing the film is extra cost. Typically 2-6 hours per scene, HD render will take even longer, plus higher equipement costs.

8. If the film going to be HD? If it is you will be paying for part of my equipment costs.

9. Do you have music ready for it? I can find musician to compose for original track but that cost money, if you don't want to spend extra for music, you are welcome to find some royalty free music for me, I will not work with copyrighted commercial songs unless you got permission to use it. (aka. no famous songs you hear on radio.)

 
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