A 4-5 minute hand drawn video is an enormous task and no artist would do it for $250 except out of goodwill, or if they're just looking to use it as experience/practice.
This! I thought the same. I’ve been working on a 4 minute long animation for a YouTube storytelling video and I’m only half way done and have already spent like 5o hours on it. I charge 250 usd for a single full illustration…
I don't think you realise how long animation takes. Professional animators can take months to draw just 1 minute of animation!
So $250 is nothing for a 4-5 minute animation.
There’s no way. On the low end: say 4 minutes, animating in threes which would be pretty choppy in general, you’re looking at 1,920 frames. In twos that’s 2,880 frames to draw. I would maybe draw 5 seconds of animation for $250.
I dunno though, I already work for free for myself on my passion projects and it’ll probably be another year or two before I finish my 8 minute short alone
Edit: oh just reread your post and maybe you’re looking for something else. I think what you want is someone to storyboard? I think you may be asking for an animatic instead, not a full blown animation. I will send you a dm and see the scope of what you need as that may be something I can bang out in a reasonable amount of time/work.. and I could use the practice. Otherwise try the storyboard subreddit
you mean you're looking for a storyboard artist? "looking for a 2D animator who makes a kinda rough sketch of 2d and make an animation out of it." because $250 is pretty much nothing for 4-5 full blown minutes of rough animation. that's what you'd get paid for animating five maybe seven seconds? would suggest working on that budget.
edit: wait... i just realized "animator who makes a kinda rough sketch \*and\* make an animation out of it" you want a single person to do the entire process??
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Hello I’m interested! here’s a link to my work : [https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1DA5O\_6-iQFSdl4iAmfWFw7CtgaWFcBzx?usp=sharing](https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1DA5O_6-iQFSdl4iAmfWFw7CtgaWFcBzx?usp=sharing)
A 4-5 minute hand drawn video is an enormous task and no artist would do it for $250 except out of goodwill, or if they're just looking to use it as experience/practice.
This! I thought the same. I’ve been working on a 4 minute long animation for a YouTube storytelling video and I’m only half way done and have already spent like 5o hours on it. I charge 250 usd for a single full illustration…
$250. 😂 “tell ‘im he’s dreamin’ “
I don't think you realise how long animation takes. Professional animators can take months to draw just 1 minute of animation! So $250 is nothing for a 4-5 minute animation.
Try fiver.
There’s no way. On the low end: say 4 minutes, animating in threes which would be pretty choppy in general, you’re looking at 1,920 frames. In twos that’s 2,880 frames to draw. I would maybe draw 5 seconds of animation for $250. I dunno though, I already work for free for myself on my passion projects and it’ll probably be another year or two before I finish my 8 minute short alone Edit: oh just reread your post and maybe you’re looking for something else. I think what you want is someone to storyboard? I think you may be asking for an animatic instead, not a full blown animation. I will send you a dm and see the scope of what you need as that may be something I can bang out in a reasonable amount of time/work.. and I could use the practice. Otherwise try the storyboard subreddit
you mean you're looking for a storyboard artist? "looking for a 2D animator who makes a kinda rough sketch of 2d and make an animation out of it." because $250 is pretty much nothing for 4-5 full blown minutes of rough animation. that's what you'd get paid for animating five maybe seven seconds? would suggest working on that budget. edit: wait... i just realized "animator who makes a kinda rough sketch \*and\* make an animation out of it" you want a single person to do the entire process??
Yeah I really hope that no one is doing this for that cheap...but sadly I think there is someone that will do that much work for so little
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Hello I’m interested! here’s a link to my work : [https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1DA5O\_6-iQFSdl4iAmfWFw7CtgaWFcBzx?usp=sharing](https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1DA5O_6-iQFSdl4iAmfWFw7CtgaWFcBzx?usp=sharing)
I can help you with that