I have a BIG animation project that i am working on for a guy,… and I would like to see what the pool of Flash Guru’s think I should be getting paid for this web site… an aproximate #of hours that you think it would take to complete. hourly rate - - anything.
I am in a bit of a pricing bind. and i need some real world prices to go off of.
THE FLASH WORK:
This is an interactive map of New York State.
it is 8-10 stages long, and tells a linear story of a battle campaign, so there is a timeline type of effect with the navigation.
Each page, has numerous rollovers, tool tips, buttons, dymanic text… and moving animations that detail the couse of a military campaign from 3 different fronts.
Here is what i have done:
I have completed the Maps in Illustrator and made them ready for print.
To give you an idea of what the illustrator file looks like - - it is over 80 layers deep with multiple objects on each layer. Now i am putting this into a Flash animation… and i have never worked in Flash as a production artist… and i am rusty at it. I need some good estimates.
I cant figure out how to post pic to this,… if i can i will post more pics of what i have done so far, to give you a good idea of what it is…
Crikey - wish I could find someone to pay me to do stuff like that. We actually did projects like that in my cartography classes at school.
Let me know if you need a partner on this!
basically this client has worked with me to create the intensive map, and i communicated to him that it would take a good deal of time. And now he can understand how the cost of it is going over $1000. He is paying hourly.
I am trying to communicate to him that by industry standards he is getting 10x the work for the price.
I would just like to get a good estimate from someone on what a job like this would cost.
lol, when I worked on my interactive mapping project I stopped counting after 500 hours of work. It started out as a school project (one map) that was so successful I was asked to make an entire atlas. I got paid about $150 for it. Luckily I won a $500 prize at a national cartography conference in their interactive student mapping competition, and that helped me validate my time (in my own head anyway). Still, your client should know that getting the maps in digital form in Illustrator is only half the process. Making them interactive is a whole 'nother ball of wax.
