Pixelation
General => General Discussion => Topic started by: CodeGeorge on November 22, 2009, 09:12:13 am
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For sprites and stuff... Being someone who's new to the idea of charging I R confused. lol I have no idea what's fair. I mean realistically no matter how much I charge it wouldn't be enough to live :P.
How much do you guys that charge get done compared to the pay? There's three tiers I can see. Time invested, quality and pay. Time invested means nothing without a certain level of quality. Some quality takes more time invested then most are willing to pay. Etc etc etc...
I've asked before elsewhere and have been told vastly different things. For example I asked how much people might expect to pay for Snorlax here (which I did for free for someone):
(http://fc04.deviantart.net/fs46/f/2009/216/d/9/Custom_Snorlax_Sprites_by_CodeGeorge.gif)
The answers I got were on average $5-20. Yeah there's a big gap there. The thing took me several hours too (I don't think I'm the fastest spriter out there :-[).
I mean I'm a n00b at asking for money and so far people have asked for quotes a lot. I just don't know what to say. Usually they ask for a quote per 32x32 or something like that (32x32 seems popular ::)).
Your thoughts?
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Charge by the hour. If you estimate that something takes you X hours to complete, then you ask for X times your hourly fee (+ taxes). Exactly what your hourly fee is, is usually determined by your skill level, professionalism, how prolific you are and how much you are in demand. If someone wants to pay for your services though, don't sell yourself short.
Having said that, when it comes to pixel art, the clients are usually willing to pay either very little (hobby developers) or a lot (big companies) relatively. There doesn't seem to be a middle ground really, so that might be worth keeping in mind. Different quotes for different folks.
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Boy, this seems to be an unpopular subject.
I'm finding that realistically I'll charge like 1/4th or less then what I probably should. However if I tried to raise the price it would be prohibitive to most potential clients.
EDIT: Also what payment method do you guys mostly use? I'm leaning towards Paypal.
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Having said that, when it comes to pixel art, the clients are usually willing to pay either very little (hobby developers) or a lot (big companies) relatively.
Do big companies even use freelancers? I'd imagine big (mobile/DS/MMO/browser) game companies have hired artists with a regular monthly fee.
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Do big companies even use freelancers? I'd imagine big (mobile/DS/MMO/browser) game companies have hired artists with a regular monthly fee.
I depends really. A friend of mine used to do a lot of freelance work for big companies like Disney. Eventually he got a steady contract, which came with a relocation of course.
Usually they work with inhouse artists with steady positions and freelancers working at home doing per contract stuff.
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3 Factors for me that I keep in mind
the Clients budget, the quality, and the time I spend on something...very imporant for me
If the client isn't asking for something that is long termed, I usually charge way less, because stuff that requires alot of work is very exhausting on a longer time scale, hence I charge more
junkboy really got it to the point imo though.
Method is paypal, always, mostly
And that Snorlax would be around 20 $ yeah, it would take me around half - 45 minutes to make that, maybe less
But my average is around 30-40$ per hour
(considering I'm european and still accepting the dollar, that is quite cheap for my expensive standards)