Hiring Background and character artist [PAID, CLOSED]

[nyaatrap]

I'm happily to pay $100 for a hand paint background Actually, they'll cost $200~ to get decent one. You need a 3D renderer or a photo filter instead of a painter on it.

[Taosym]

There are plenty of good people here on Lemma that charge between $ 20 to $ 50 for a BG, which would mean even as low as $2 per hour. But still, you're right. That's a very low amount of money per hour. I guess the people I found are just hobbyists, but even so, their skill level is the same as yours.



I don't expect this game to be done by at least the beggining of 2014. It's... VERY large ... Not only on art, but also on word count.

EDIT: $100 for a bg...? You're surely the most expensive guy I've found here o.O

...Actually, come to think of it. Even $10/hour isn't really all that much... *throws alway all my current art skills*

Just clarifying that a lot of us who do background work can work anywhere from 8 to 12 hours or more for a finished piece. 12 hours is $96 at barely minimum wage in most of the united states. I think people who do go into funding things grossly underestimate how much things like this cost, and how much time it takes.

[Rye]

I'm nobody to talk here but just a little advice: since this is a free game? Try to using free CC BGs. There are plenty out there an it help you save up money to other arts. Try to minium poses and expressions as much as possible unless someone do it for free lol

[DaFool]

Reasonably priced copyright-free backgrounds set in Japan:

http://www.dlsite.com/eng/circle/profil ... 21335.html

So that's at most 200 bucks down for 10 packs, you can now focus the rest of your money on hiring skilled character artist who will make matching sprites and CGs.

Asking for original BG artists on a free game set in modern Japan is like asking someone to reinvent the wheel.

The only case where you commission original backgrounds is if you want a specific, e.g. psychological/dark/horror artstyle.

[Viniciuskk]

7.69 for working at McDonalds? The hobbyists I found better not read that! Haha
But I kind of understand. People who hire here are far from having high earnings from their games, so they can't pay much. Still, I hadn't thought that what the artists charged or what people pay here could be so low. Bad mistake on my part, sorry. It wasn't my intention to piss you guys off.

I guess PyTom can lock this thread then. I'll stick to the two hobbyists I met earlier. I do have confiance in them though, and have been accompanying their work here on Lemma and DA.

But tell me, Blue Lemma, how does art theft work? I don't want to risk falling for it now or in the future ~~

EDIT: wowow, wait, so many people posted now! Haven't read it all yet

EDIT2 : 18 dollars for 6 gorgeous looking pictures? o.O That's EVEN cheaper

[nyaatrap]

http://lemmasoft.renai.us/forums/viewto ... =7&t=18808
A story of one arttheft who is fired by his company.

[Viniciuskk]

Eh? How'd someone do that to my project? (Sorry for the stupidity once again )

[PyTom]

The average hourly pay of a cashier at McDonalds is about $7.69/hour in the US (according to Google). Do you seriously mean that the beautiful artworks artists create painstakingly with love and effort are worth not even a third of that?

I'll note that may not be the correct the way to figure out how something is worth. A competing theory is supply-and-demand - if you can find someone to agree to do the work you supply at <price>, the work is worth <price>. if there's an oversupply in the market, then the price will likely go down. I suspect that there's an oversupply of artists doing one-off commissions - hence why one can find some fairly low valuations on such work. I'd suspect the supply of artists willing to reliably do a huge amount of work is much smaller, so hence one can expect to pay a lot more for their time.

[Blue Lemma]

Eh? How'd someone do that to my project? (Sorry for the stupidity once again )

The concern is if you hire someone and they trace/copy someone else's art. Then you're stuck with stolen art, and that is NOT what you are paying for (I hope )

My implication was that if someone were to do everything you asked for decently, for a low enough price, and in a short to medium amount of time, they might be copying art in order to do so. For such a big commission, you should really be working with reputable people.

[Viniciuskk]

Ah, I understand thanks :3