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I just started a blog in an attempt to make myself look a tad professional and keep my fans informed. I'll be updating it as much as I can. Basically, I'll be posting up what I'm working on and what I'm doing animation-wise. If you want to check it out, then click here to go to my PRODUCTION BLOG

Anyways, I finished another animation for a charity contest. Took me only like four days. I just wanted to get it out of the way to get back to Wizard Kin. I think I did good for a four day animation. That's probably the quickest I ever made something. Anyways, my friend Andrew is scoring it as we speak, so you wont see it until he finishes.

Also, there are two questions I want to ask you guys out there and it would really help me if I got some answers. Here I go:

1. Whats the best way to turn my swf. into a video file?

I always find it difficult to convert my swf to a video file. I even downloaded like 5 converting programs, but they never work. Either they freeze because I'm using Vista, or have a watermark on them that I can't get rid of unless I pay. I may just end up paying, but if you have any alternatives, it would really help me out.

2. What do you think is a reasonable price for commissions?

I want to start doing commissions when summertime rolls around, but I can't come up with a good pricing for commissions. The averages I came out with made people say, "be reasonable man!". So if anyone can come up with a good pricing, let me know. I want to know how much I should price someone for every minute of animation I do or what should I receive daily, or hourly.

Well, that's about all the news I have. Good luck to everyone who participated in the Christmas contest. There were a lot of good submissions this year

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Dec. 29, 2008 | 9:06 PM SamIam says:

Whats the best way to turn my swf. into a video file?

Export it as a .mov, but make sure to remove all the actionscripting that deals with stopping the movie or redirecting the Scene 01 to Scene 09 rather than just letting the movie go to Scene 02. For some reason you video might lag on Youtube if you post it as a .mov so just convert the .mov into an MPEG2 or AVI and it should play fine on Youtube. This works for me and I use Vista.

Dec. 29, 2008 | 9:19 PM KartuneHustla responds:

thanks man, I'll try that

Dec. 29, 2008 | 9:48 PM pvt-blasto says:

oh nooooo!!! commissions? we've lost him! i think 30 dollars a minute is like wallmart... try 45... id pay you...

ynooo...? boxman (hint hint)

first episode should be like 4 minutes long.. then again i still dont have that kind of money... its a good question...

i would pay a collective, but thats just me... you always want to figure out the price up front... so first figure out what kind of work needs to be done.. then figure out how long its going to take... then calculate a price...

then theres a question... am i doing it right? what happens if you do a commission and the customer doesnt like it.. doesnt think its quite perfect.. do you charge to repair the damage?

commissions are complicated... what i suggest is if you want to make some money... get into a project you think will make money and submit to be apart of it.. then you can make a percentage on t-shirts and what-not...

just an idea, because it goes conveniently with my plans (MUAHAHAHAHA!!!)

and hey if you want to see a crappy prototype of boxman have a look here...

http://www.newgrounds.com/bbs/topic/1 010900

Dec. 30, 2008 | 3:25 PM Peglay says:

blogger.com hmm.....

Jan. 1, 2009 | 9:03 AM GustTheASGuy says:

It may help when naming a price to consider how much time it would take you and how much you want to make hourly. It's much easier for programmers because it usually works out >$50/hour so if it's going to take a week it's $500 minumum.

If someone's budget is $100, 20 seconds is already stretching it but if they insist give them something you can brick out in 3 to 7 hours.