Moving Camera Fee

[glorybound]

I have been avoiding animations, however, I keep getting asked to do them. My fear is not charging enough and losing my butt. How do you charge for an interior animation when the camera is simply panning and walking around the room? The room will be a kitchen and great room, so nothing complicated. I am thinking a 30-second animation.

[Morbid Angel]

do you have the capability to render the animation on your own? if yes, then factor in user time (to setup animation, see the render through) and render farm time, software cost, power cost etc. If no, and you have to resort to online farm, you can estimate the cost from their calculator. Its usually something like $0.05c per Ghz hour. So depending on how long your render is on your local machine you can approximate the cost. 30 seconds might be expensive, if they are high res and take a while.

[werticus]

Just moving camera with no moving objects is pretty simple. Just charge a render fee and send it to rebus or ranch or whoever. Do Brute + LC so there are no issues with ir map animations and pre calc the LC using camera path to save some money. Then just chuck on +$ on top of the render cost as it is a little bit more work in terms of perhaps making sure the scene is solid in 360 degrees etc.