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[DigitalKey]

Hi, All!

 

Ihabkal and me had started a conversation on "miscellaneous forum" and I would like to bring that theme to everybody.

 

I wonder to know everyonce's opinion about the "time x budget"

 

Following you will find our conversation:

 

Ihabkal:

Nice work, I am working on a mall almost the same size, client wants a 3 minute animation in 9 days. I told him it is too short of a time. How much time did it take you to do this and how many worked on it?

My I also ask about the budget? I hope it i snot taboo....I just want to check my pricing if it is right or wrong. It is very similar size wise to what i am doing...

Thank you...

 

Me:

Hi, Ihabkal.

Thanks a lot for your comments.

3 minutes in 9 days? wow! It’s really a short of time.

So, we’re a team of 10 professionals and all the other jobs has been distributed to everyone. You can see that this project had been finalized parallel with other jobs.

 

This video was produced during 30 days.

10 days to be modeled.

10 days to be lighted and texturized

10 days to be rendered and post producing.

 

About the budget it's relative. Not in the company words, but in my opinion, a good budget (in a freelancer job case) is a mix of:

Step 1 - Budget add as rent+water bill+electricity bill+internet and so on.

Step 2 - Monthly earning and/or third part: monthly payment paid to set employees

Step 3 - Fee percentage: Market variation and budget (it would be a monthly saving for the company)

After all this added expenses, we could get into the step 4 - It means a total that and we can

share it into working days and dayly hours (for example, here in Brazil we usually work 22 days a month by 8 hours a day)

That is "work hour price"

I believe that independent of others companies, you have your own real price. Do not base your amount in to other comparisons. Remenber, you get what you deserve.

 

I hope all this information could help you and clear your mind.

Take care,

David Carvalho - Creation Coordinator.

[Devin Johnston]

I guess the question is can you do 30 days of work in 9, if you can then I'd charge the normal fee x3 and sit back after it's over and count my money.

[aristocratic3d]

One of my Australian client making me work for his mistake. he is changing drawing and saying that my fault please solve it.

So I was straight forward about it.. I said well send another set of payment I will work on it no problem. so if he want you to stress yourself stress him too.