{"id":175,"date":"2007-01-13T19:02:30","date_gmt":"2007-01-13T23:02:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rakkar.org\/blog\/?p=175"},"modified":"2007-01-13T19:02:30","modified_gmt":"2007-01-13T23:02:30","slug":"art-bidding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rakkar.org\/blog\/index.php\/2007\/01\/13\/art-bidding\/","title":{"rendered":"Art bidding"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\tI have 5 companies bidding to do the artwork for my game now.<\/p>\n<p>Two are in preliminary stages and didn&#8217;t get cost estimates back to me yet.  It&#8217;s possible they will go nowhere.  One in China and one somewhere else (I think Europe).<\/p>\n<p>One, in Brazil, quoted $60,000 which is absurd, because workers in Brazil make 1\/4 of what we do.  So it&#8217;s the equivalent of a US company asking for $240,000.  This is 4 months of work on an Indy game.  What the guy told me is he charges by meters, so if a spaceship is $100 a star destroyer 100x larger is $10,000.   That&#8217;s a stupid metric.  If this was a first person shooter and you were walking on the surface of the Star Destroyer, and the SD was the entire game, then maybe I&#8217;d use that much detail.  But it&#8217;s a space game zoomed way out.   Symmetrical with windows as filler is good enough.  Either they are trying to rip me off or the communication is beyond horrible.  Either way, I don&#8217;t want them, so I told them to forget it.<\/p>\n<p>One, in the US, will be between $20,000 and $40,000, not sure yet.  I think they could do a good job but they are very poor at responding when they say they will.  So I might not go with them because if it&#8217;s this bad now I think it will probably be worse after I pay them.<\/p>\n<p>Another, in the US, will be $30,000 and will get back to me in 2 days.  It will be an art director, who formerly did WoW, and a couple of juniors.  The communication  is really good and I&#8217;m moderately confident that it will get done correctly.\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have 5 companies bidding to do the artwork for my game now. Two are in preliminary stages and didn&#8217;t get cost estimates back to me yet. It&#8217;s possible they will go nowhere. One in China and one somewhere else (I think Europe). One, in Brazil, quoted $60,000 which is absurd, because workers in Brazil [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rakkar.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rakkar.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rakkar.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rakkar.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rakkar.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=175"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rakkar.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rakkar.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=175"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rakkar.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=175"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rakkar.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=175"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}