Cost of Sprites

MyOldDeadInn · Apr 2015

Hello, for a University project I am wondering whether someone can inform me of the following:

If you were hired as a artist creating sprites, how much money would you expect to earn per hour?

If you were outsourced to make a sprite how much would you expect to earn per sprite made?

Thanks.
MyOldDeadInn

EarthQuake · Apr 2015

I'm not a 2d/sprite artist, so there may be some standard rates for this sort of work that I'm not aware of, however, generally, this will vary too heavily to give you a number.

To figure out how much you should charge for any work, first you need to figure out how long the work will take you to do, then you need to figure out how much your time is worth. From there, its a simple matter of amount of work * day or hourly rate, and that is how much you charge.

When figuring out your freelance rate, be sure to include all the various extra costs of doing freelance work, like:
paying for taxes
paying for retirement
having enough money to survive between gaps in work/downtime
cost of living
hardware/software costs
etc

MyOldDeadInn · Apr 2015

Thanks for the reply. Though I was meaning for this to from the perspective of the company paying for the art. Regardless thanks for this information.

MyOldDeadInn

Neox · Apr 2015

i would expect the same money as with doing super highres ingame characters, per hour.

And why would it be different? Work is work. Of course people can start giving discounts, be it for passion projects or for large amounts. But this is a whole different discussion.

MyOldDeadInn · Apr 2015

Thanks for the reply. What would your hourly rate be in that case, if you are a artist?

MyOldDeadInn

JacqueChoi · Apr 2015

It probably doesn't help when I say this, but between $20-$500 an hour.

In most cases, you pay more for higher quality/more experience.

pangaea · Apr 2015

$700 an hour.

Edit: Do you need something specific? As you could probably just use some RPG maker sprites

Add3r · Apr 2015

The real question is, What are you willing to pay for quality art? That is a question you should be asking yourself, based on your entire team budget.

Eric Chadwick · Apr 2015

This might help
http://wiki.polycount.com/wiki/Freelance#Freelance_Rates

Steve Schulze · Apr 2015

You also need to factor in that if the client is looking for sprites, there's a high probability that they're penniless indie developers who're already living on 2-minute noodles.

Neox · Apr 2015

Jackablade wrote: »

You also need to factor in that if the client is looking for sprites, there's a high probability that they're penniless indie developers who're already living on 2-minute noodles.

you seem to have missed that companies like, zynga, facebook, king, wooga, goodgame, innogames and maaaaaaaany more that i don't know, use sprites for almost all of their games. and they have tons of money, the mobile and browser market is huge. especially here in germany, thats almost all thats left from the industry here, and they are doing pretty well.

cheesywests · Apr 2015

Hello,
What are you willing to pay for quality art?
That is a question you should be asking yourself,
thanks,
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Steve Schulze · Apr 2015

How big is the freelance side of things there? I would have assumed those bigger mobile typed studios would have done most of their stuff in house. There's not usually a large amount of art in those sorts of games.

Neox · Apr 2015

here they probably have the biggest teams and besides that they still do outsource. i would not underestimate the amount of work for some of these games, on top they by far do not release all of their productions, we worked on a few titles which never saw the light of day.

Cost of Sprites

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