The day rate for decent outsource studios in China and India is not below the 100 pounds you mention. As an outsource manager, my guess is that people are mostly looking for groups of people (i.e. outsource studios) to do work, as opposed to individual contractors. Therefore I don't think you need to lower your prices to…
eh, you mean outsourcing? everybody does it. but theres a difference between outsourcing and "buying assets". with outsourcing you can check out a studio overseas and whether or not their ..."art" is any good and talk to them, plus you tell them what to make.
You just don't see all the outsourcers listed in the credits like that. Sometimes there's mention of the outsource studio but not the individuals. My experience with outsourcing is the majority of the stuff will be decent with a few awesome pieces and a few stinkers. As far as cleaning up stuff I typically just get them as…