#DOING CEL ANIMATION IN TOON BOOM STUDIO 8 HOW TO#
I hope this has been a help or at least an interesting read for anybody out there who is looking for ideas on how to get started in animation.Copernicus Studios is looking for the next great crew members to join us for Season 3 of Solar Opposites! It’s a heck of a lot of work but once you reach the summit and finish your clip there is nothing like it! I was thinking how much animation is similar to mountain climbing. Until then, I’m happy and challenged with tackling whatever comes my way. My dream is to someday discontinue doing animation for other people and concentrate on my own animation projects. So far, it’s been slow but I have had a steady flow of work. I figure the more I get my work out there eventually somebody is going to see it and I may land a new customer. A producer friend of mine will be hosting mini-film festivals around Texas and he wants to show some of my work and offer the DVDs. I have also created 2 DVDs of compilations of animations which I have done. So I am now slowly but surely beginning to bring in something month by month from there. I figured I wasn’t doing anything with those first animations, so why not.
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In the meantime, I got the idea from another animator to try to sell my animations on. (I have since upgraded to Harmony and am very happy to have all the new features!) I may not use everything it has in it but I have it there in case I ever need it.
#DOING CEL ANIMATION IN TOON BOOM STUDIO 8 PRO#
By a miracle I came in 5th and got Animate Pro 2! Now I had the tools I needed to make my animations even better. My main goal was to win a copy of Animate Pro as well as get exposure for my work.
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Most clients want a flat fee and are scared of paying by the hour for obvious reasons.Ī little over a year ago I entered the animation contest. When a job comes in you estimate the time it will take and make an estimate from there. Another way to look at it is to calculate how much you need to make per hour to pay your bills. In general, I haven’t had much success with this goal price but have made it up to $800 per minute which, for now, I am happy with. If they need a script, voice overs, music, etc., I have to enlist the help of others and the cost goes up. Most of these have not panned out especially when I get around to telling them how much it will cost–ha! My goal is to charge $1500 per minute of animation which includes storyboards, character and background designs, animation and compositing. There have also been a few requests here and there by people who have seen my YouTube channel.
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Since then I have done 5 or 6 animations for them. One of those is the “Careful What I Do” song. I also got some work from another client which I had previously done cartoon work for. They loved it! However, they still were more interested in my just doing cartooning for them as animation was such a time consuming thing and less predictable as for how much I could produce in X amount of time. One of my clients for cartoons asked me to animate a song, “I’ll Shine,” which I did in a couple of weeks. I had no thoughts initially of selling any of my first endeavors.Īfter awhile I started to get some requests to do an animation here and there.
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At first I posted everything on my YouTube channel just to show what I could do. I started out just doing whatever projects or ideas I had as I learned how to do it. I began doing animation with Toon Boom Studio which is a great program and really has just about everything you need. I am still just in the beginning stages of making this my main freelance work as previously I had only done cartooning. At the request of Alex I’d like to share some of the experiences that I have had doing freelance animation.