standard price for handpainted textures ?
polycounter lvl 9
I understand that there is no straight answer for this but i just feel so lost when dealing with prize / asset. I am doing a 1024 * 1024 handpainted texture, really detailed wow style. Can someone give me a hint ?
thanks alot.
thanks alot.
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you can guess-timate the price and say, well the average 2D guy in the games industry makes for example 50K a year. ok, so that per hour is roughly: $25 per hour
but this is $25 per hour for a proven industry expert who is pretty much guaranteed to produce excellent work
for a fixed price you would simply in your mind think, ok, i KNOW i can do that in under 12 hours...i think im worth $20 per hour, so, that would be around $240 for that image, then work in any kind of discount for them, and say well i'll do it for $200
so work it like that, you also have to have a feel for the client, whats the budget for this image, will there be others? also remember whatever you do for the client they own it, ALL of it, unless you get in writing from them that you own the rights to the image/content, but i doubt you will get that unless they are foolish
also ask thier permission to show it in your portfolio and when you can show it
Time spent on revisions
Paying for your taxes
Paying for your health insurance
Paying for your retirement
Paying your bills when you do not have work(downtime)
^^ These are all generally costs that are covered by your employer when you work onsite, when you're freelance you have to cover it yourself, so you can't compare onsite vs freelance work.
Figure whatever you charge as a freelancer you're really only getting half of that at the end of the day.