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Job offers / Re: [PAID] Seeking Pixel Artist/s - Characters, Environments, Animations
« on: January 21, 2015, 05:47:37 pm »
I'd like to take a second to clear things up real quick.
First of all, I've already paid for samples from several artists, and am waiting for email confirmation for PayPal from several more. Unfortunately, I'm not in the financial position where I can pay for sample work from every single artist that inquires about work, and so I try to restrict paid samples to artists that I feel would be an outstanding fit for the project. Whether or not an artist is willing to demonstrate their fit for a large project in situations where I can't justify paying them for samples is a decision that I leave up to them. I'm never going to turn down someone who wants to take a shot at the work, even if they're unproven. Otherwise, I'd just feel like some terrible HR manager that screens candidates based on tenths of GPA points or some other equally arbitrary factor. I would also never use any work provided by an artist without agreement from them and compensation to them.
What happened here was that Becca asked a rate for sample work that I couldn't justify paying, and instead of a curt "no", I made the poor choice of saying why. As I've said to her multiple times at this point, Becca's a good artist. But, I didn't feel that her rates were all that viable with the amount of quality artists out there. For $40-50 per hour, for example, I would expect something like this over this. Or, how $550 for this is hard to justify compared to prices like this. I only said something because I thought that she was a talented artist who was limiting her options at her price point. I tried very hard to make it clear that I wasn't trying to be rude and meant no offense, that I was only offering some advice from a prospective buyer's perspective, but that didn't work out.
I admit that I was wrong to provide unsolicited advice to someone about their business, and Becca, once again, I apologize for offending you. The absolute last thing I wanted to do was make this public, and would be glad for the chance to take this post down. If anyone has any other questions, please email me at the address listed in the OP.
First of all, I've already paid for samples from several artists, and am waiting for email confirmation for PayPal from several more. Unfortunately, I'm not in the financial position where I can pay for sample work from every single artist that inquires about work, and so I try to restrict paid samples to artists that I feel would be an outstanding fit for the project. Whether or not an artist is willing to demonstrate their fit for a large project in situations where I can't justify paying them for samples is a decision that I leave up to them. I'm never going to turn down someone who wants to take a shot at the work, even if they're unproven. Otherwise, I'd just feel like some terrible HR manager that screens candidates based on tenths of GPA points or some other equally arbitrary factor. I would also never use any work provided by an artist without agreement from them and compensation to them.
What happened here was that Becca asked a rate for sample work that I couldn't justify paying, and instead of a curt "no", I made the poor choice of saying why. As I've said to her multiple times at this point, Becca's a good artist. But, I didn't feel that her rates were all that viable with the amount of quality artists out there. For $40-50 per hour, for example, I would expect something like this over this. Or, how $550 for this is hard to justify compared to prices like this. I only said something because I thought that she was a talented artist who was limiting her options at her price point. I tried very hard to make it clear that I wasn't trying to be rude and meant no offense, that I was only offering some advice from a prospective buyer's perspective, but that didn't work out.
I admit that I was wrong to provide unsolicited advice to someone about their business, and Becca, once again, I apologize for offending you. The absolute last thing I wanted to do was make this public, and would be glad for the chance to take this post down. If anyone has any other questions, please email me at the address listed in the OP.