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Eric Chamberlain
November 14, 2009 at 7:14 pm in reply to: Duplicate along spline noob problem

I tried adding a rail spline but it just made the original mesh and the duplicates disappear.
Eric Chamberlain
October 31, 2008 at 1:09 am in reply to: Roughly how much for something like this, per minute

You mean instead of just using Flash? Who knows, it may require work that requires AE effects or something else.
Eric Chamberlain
October 28, 2008 at 9:36 pm in reply to: Roughly how much for something like this, per minute

Well, in Flash you can just animate things on a timeline, very similar to AE in that respect. Compared to AE and something like Cinema 4D or other 3D app, you just publish a Flash file when you’re ready, it’s not the same as rendering it out which, for me in C4D, might take up to 4 or 5 days for some projects. Flash doesn’t really work that way, so the issue is strictly about the animation work, and not rendering. Flash publishes in just a few seconds, in the projects I have worked on.
That’s a great question, about whether I should charge for the time my computer is rendering and I can’t do anything else. I do have a backup laptop, I could work on that. I’ve never been hired to produce anything with C4D so I’m not sure about how to handle that. I suppose I would just use my laptop for other work, although I don’t prefer that because of the screen size/resolution.
I have asked this client for more details, then I will send a proper quote for the work.
Eric Chamberlain
October 28, 2008 at 8:39 pm in reply to: Roughly how much for something like this, per minute

Thanks for the insight, I appreciate it. I have the same view, and that’s how the last project worked. I did something similar, but in Flash, for around 800/minute. That’s just how the math worked out, it was about 40 hours of work for $3200. Anyway I’m wondering if that sounds about right or is that low? I’ve seen mentioned rates of “1500 to 3500 per minute” for other motion graphics work, but I don’t know if that would also apply to corporate videos and interactive demonstrations.
Anyway, thanks again.