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Rules
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Not Allowed:                                                                                                    

  • Pornography and senseless violence.                                                          
  • I cannot stress this enough. I cannot use Copyrighted material (including Disney, MLP, Pixar, Dreamworks, etc.)
  • Anything that is defamatory, disrespectful, or anything that has no socially/culturally redeeming qualities. 
  • Sharing personal information of anyone whatsoever.                

 Are Allowed:

  • Using existing art styles (eg. Disney, MLP)
  • OC's that's based on existing material. (OC Ponies)
  • Locations can be based on existing material as longs as it's an original work. (So no Ponyville or Canterlot)
  • Public Domain material may be used.
  • Mature Content allowed as long as it's tasteful. Ask first.
  • I understand that we have our own preferences so I will allow fetish (including feet, breasts, resizing, etc.)
  • Social commentary and constructive criticisms.

General:

  • ONLY real currency via PayPal. No points. 
  • No art trades.
  • Depending on how long it'll take each commission, I'll allow more than one.
  • Must ask for approval before sending payment.
  • Unwillingness to pay or negotiate will result in no further commissions.
  • I reserve the right to refuse any service.
  • Once commission is complete, there will be no exchanges, refunds, and/or substitutions.
  • Prices are subject to change without notice.

Process

1. Decide what you would like and provide a well written description of your commission. Try to be specific and/or provide some examples. I may ask you questions if there's anything I don't understand.

2. We will discuss the price. Once your in Slot 1, you'll be able to pay in advance or pay after the commission is one.

2. I will provided work in progress material. At this stage, please be sure they is close as possible to what you want before I create the final product. It'll save more time if we fix the commission during the rough stages.

3. Once you finalize the sketch, I will not create a complete redo so be sure the sketch is close enough to what you want. Edits will be allowed however.

4. Even when I've finished the final product, minors edits will be allowed. Though if edits become excessive, I may charge you extra (varies).

5. Once we reach an agreement and the transaction is complete, we can call it a day.

Extra charge for edits
There will be cases that not everything gets worked out during the work in progress and you might want to make changes. Depending on what changes you want, it may be free, or I will charge you extra. Extra charges will vary depending on quantity and complexity.

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Edits - No charge
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Basically errors, slight changes to things that I've already made, or things that don't require a lot of effort.

Edits include but not limited to:

-When I don't follow instructions and references correctly.
-Errors such as wrong proportions, wrong lighting direction, missing/misplaced details, color outside outlines, etc. 
-Color changes (Solid color only).
-Decreasing image size and cropping.
-Changing positions of objects and character as long as I don't need to fill up the missing parts.
-Copy and pasting objects.

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Edits - With Charges
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Generally anything that requires me to create something that I haven't already made.

Edits include but not limited to:

- Adding/replacing props, characters, shadows/lighting, and other details.
- Fixing perspective for characters, objects, background, etc.
- Redrawing character/props/background.
- Expanding image and/or filling empty spaces.
- Remastering small object/image with bigger resolution. 
- Filling missing parts after changing position of objects and characters.

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Slots
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Slots are basically reserve spots for you to commission me. It helps me keep track on who and when a client is commissioning me. Only one slot per client and it's first come first serve. These are all of the slots that I can handle, so I won't be adding anymore than what I have. 

I will not accept payment in advance from you until are moved to Slot 1.

If the slots are full, I will try to notify you if I can. If not, I'll keep updating my slot status for you all to see if there's any slots available. 

Slot 1:
Slot 2:
Slot 3:
Slot 4: 

*I've decided to cut the Priority Slot since it actually makes the slot system more complicated. Though I've added Slot 4 to handle more workload.

For those I didn't follow up with (for a long time), I may need you to contact me again. My apologies.

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Rates
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I. Characters
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Any additional characters will be the same amount.
                    
Sketch $5                                          Lineart $7                  


     
                                
Color w/ Black Outline  $8        Color with Color outline $10

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II. Comics
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10 panels max per page. Rates are negotiable depending on art style and amount of panels. Number of characters will not matter, though keep in mind how many characters can fit in a panel. 
 
                                     
Sketch $10                    Lineart $12              Black and White $20               Full color $40 

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III. Character Animation
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BE WARNED: I’m still in the beta stage of learning animation, so it'll likely be rough on the edges and will take a long time.

For MLP fans, don't ask me to animate in the MLP style. I simply have no idea on how they do it. Yet...

Traditional Animation
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There are 24 frames per second and you will be charged for every 12 frames. The more frames you have, the more fluid it would be.

As a cost cutting measure, I would be shooting on two's, which will make up 12 drawings per second. Shooting on twos will give satisfactory sense of movement without sacrificing too much quality. This is what American animation use for the most part, but shooting ones is reserved for fast movement because shooting on twos may be too slow to interpret the movement.

It's also possible to shoot on three's, which would make up 8 drawings per second. This technique has been used for budget anime including Sailor Moon and Dragonball Z.

You may ask for me to shoot on one's, where I draw all 24 frames per second. This results in very fluid animation, but it's time consuming and expensive so shooting on twos is used. However, this is a norm for computer animation (Which I cannot do).

Machines and Vehicles are not my strong point, just so you know.

Costs:
For every 12 frames. You can do the math.
  • Rough Animation $8 (R)
  • Clean Up Animation $16 (C)
  • Black Outline and Color Animation $32 (BC)
  • Colored Outline and Color Animation $38 (CC)
  • Shading $4 (SH)
  • Highlight $4 (H)
  • Limited Animation will vary (L)
  • Sync to Sound will vary (S). You may provide your own sound and music, but can't they be copyrighted. 
  • Background will vary (BG). No charge for providing your own and/or having me use a preexisting one, as long as it's not copyrighted.
  • Effects animation will vary (FX)

Breaking it down:
Not including sound, background, and FX.
  • 0-12 frames (0-1 sec)   =  (R) $8 / (C) $16 / (BC) $32/ (CC) $38
  • 13-24 frames (1-2 sec) =  (R) $16 / (C) $24 / (BC) $48/ (CC) $54 
  • 25-36 frames (2-3 sec) =  (R) $24 / (C) $32 / (BC) $64/ (CC) $70 
  • 37-48 frames (3-4 sec) =  (R) $32 / (C) $48 / (F) $96/ (CC) $102
  • and so on. 

Examples:

      

Basic Flash Animation
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I'm going to stress on the word basic since I'm barely learning how to do Flash and stick figure animation. They are potentially the cheapest form of animation I could provide. The most basic animation I could do I would consist of simple cycles and panning. Don't expect Disney style animation. 

  • I'll charge for you every 12 assets used for the animation. 
  • Assets would be everything used (stick figures, houses, clouds, arms, legs, eyes, trees, fire, etc.)
  • Once I create an asset, I can reuse them anytime instead of drawing everything from scratch.
  • More assets will result in wider more range of movements. Of course, the more expensive it'll be.
  • I would not charge you for every frame I use, which means more animation for less money.
  • Still, it's quantity over quality. It's your call.

Let say you want a full flash model for a human character, I would create:
1 Head
2 arms
2 hands
2 legs
1 torso
1 ponytail
1 pair of breast (For jiggly boobs lol)
1 pair of eyes open
1 pair of eyes closed
1 mouth closed
1 mouth open
2 feet

That would be 17 assets total. And this is just a silent character model. Lip sync will be add for every mouth movement asset I create. 

Again, it'll depend on what you want and complexity but here are the basic costs

Every 12 stick figure assets $8
Every 12 Black and White assets  $16
Every 12 Color assets $24
Sync to sound will vary
Background will vary


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IV. Miscellaneous
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All will vary depending on complexity.

 
*Interactive Slideshow - You get a bunch of pictures and I'll make it interactive. For now I can only create one that can only navigates left and right with the keyboard. It can also be a very basic web comic.


* Logos - Names and titles designed according to the theme of your commission.


* Background - e.g simple, forest, beach, street, castle, etc.

[No Example]
* Props - sword, staff, wand, lollipop, crown. Basically anything that the character interacts with but not wearing.

[No Example]
* Machines - Robots, machines, mecha, vehicles, automobiles, etc. It's not really my strong point.  


Special Effects (SFX) - magic sparkles, fire, lightning, ice, wind, etc. Basically moving objects that's neither a character or background. .

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Closing
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If you want to commission me or any questions, send me a note or Skype me to discuss the details. 

Skype username: regular_artist/ Modest Artist

I'll see you around.


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Hey can I ask for a slot?