Really? 10 original broadcast-quality templates for $200? I’ve been working with motion graphics for years and have created what I would call broadcast-quality templates, and each one took me a few days to create. I understand that there are plenty of folks looking to break into this (or any) industry who are willing to work for cheap or for free in order to get a foot in the door - I did it myself back in the day - but I would never advise anyone to take a job like this. If the producer is really looking for original, quality work, then they should pay for it - and no one who is capable of providing original, quality work should be giving it away for free.

One more point to my little rant. Notice how the ad promises that it will “probably turn into a regular task” - well, I’ll tell you from personal experience (and I’ve heard many other folks say the same thing): once you do a job for someone, you have locked in your price. Doing that first job at a discount in order to get more work at full price just doesn’t pan out that way.

If you are a newbie looking for experience, you may have to work cheap or work for free for to get experience and make connections. If you are good at what you do, then charge what your time is worth! Send these types of producers the message that they can’t rip off artists that spend years learning their craft.

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Producers like this don’t have a clue.

If you are “talented and fast” you don’t have to settle for “peanut” wages. You will be plenty busy.

Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)  on  12/01  at  11:11 PM

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Ugh - seen plenty of my share of this type - never, EVER turns into “steady, repeat work.”

IF they should ever come back, their line is “Well, you did it for $X last time, and my producer/client/etc. is pushing back on why we should pay more this time…just this one more time, I promise…”

If it is going to be steady work, I say put it in writing.

With a kill fee.

-mike

Posted by Mike Curtis  on  12/02  at  12:34 PM

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I know someone who has done work cheaply like that. When the producer has come back to them at a later date for more work they have tried to drive the price down even more because they assumed that the original cost was what he worked for normally.

Posted by Simon Wyndham  on  12/07  at  03:42 AM

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If that guy would add 2 more zeros at the end of each price then it would be worth it MotionVFX offers ready to use Motion Templates, so don’t even bother looking for anything else: http://www.motionvfx.com

Posted by Szymon Masiak  on  12/09  at  05:50 AM

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