Animation : Animated Videos by Christopher Castle

Hi Christopher - I'm not sure if there's a singular answer to your question. One can animate "The Lion King 2" for free if one has endless time and happens to know a few thousand brilliant animators who are willing to do top quality work at no charge. And one can always find people to overcharge endlessly for sub-standard work. From my perspective, the best way for you to move forward may be to start with a rough sense of what you can afford. $100; 1000; 10,000; 100,000... from there, holding in mind the level of quality you feel you need, start to look around. Are you looking for an animation student? A singular professional? A company, etc. There are even programs that allow you to do some kinds of animation yourself. Hope this helps.

Thanks Ralph. I guess I was hedging my bets a little. But it would be a pretty minimal budget. Hard enough for creatives to make money in the normal times let alone these difficult circumstances. I don't want to restrict the type of person I work with. If they have passion and can deliver a quality product then that works.

I do a lot of freelance animation and my price varies depending on my workload or if I need a quick infusion of cash for a new Quadro card or something. One thing to remember is that if you leave a lot more discretion to the animator the price can be cheaper because the project becomes more enjoyable to work on. For instance if you sent me a link to a couple of songs and asked me to come up with a concept for one of them I would quote you a lot cheaper rate than otherwise. Here is a link to a 3000 dollar simple vid with repetitive movements I created for a client youtube.com/watch?v=qSz0cKt35tQ And this one cost closer to 8k requiring much more scenery objects and non repetitive movement. youtu.be/cnPbTHTHAgU