Animation and Video Life

In my business of creating GoAnimate cartoons for commercial clients I get many inquiries about pricing. I'm pretty up front about my fees which, at the time of writing this, are as follows: Any GoAnimate animation up to 2 minutes in length will cost US$297.00. Additional minutes will be charged at $99.00 per minute.  The final HD quality video will include a commercial license fee of $79.00. This is the bare minimum cost of creating an animation with GoAnimate. I also include a list of extras that may add to the cost: Script development - if not providing a completed script. Voices - if not using GoAnimate Text To Speech Voices or providing your own voices as MP3 files. Custom image work including custom flash props, backgrounds and animation. Where possible I try to do as much as I can with GoAnimate's existing content so as to avoid the need to create any custom props or animation. So your minimum spend with my service is $376.00 for which you can get up ...

A few months back I purchased Crazy Talk Animator Pro and have been trying to learn it ever since. It's not that it's a hard program to learn particularly, there's just so much to take in. It's definitely not like GoAnimate where you can be up and running in minutes. Let's back up a little shall we. If you're not familiar with Crazy Talk Animator it's essentially a 2D animation studio that lets you create character 'puppets' which you can animate on any scene you can create. The style of animation falls somewhere between cut outs and traditional animation because you can make puppets from existing photos of people, animals or objects or you can draw your own puppets completely from scratch. As an animation studio it clearly has professional application but it's also great for the hobbyist and anyone who wants to animate but drawing isn't their strong point. It even has a whole market place of pre-made characters and sets which you ca...

In late January of 2012 I was looking around for ideas to create an epic animated music video on GoAnimate that told a story of a battle against the odds. Inspiration... This came about as a result of re-viewing, yet again,  one of my favorite GoAnimations of all time created by GoAnimator,  Tripfold , called The Jet Set Concussion (The Blueberry Fiz Contention 2). I've embeded it below. It still stands up as a great GoAnimation even now. The Jet Set Concussion by Tripfold on GoAnimate Animated Presentations - Powered by GoAnimate. It's an old animation (published in October of 2009) that tells a love story of our hero of sorts in the face of aliens hell bent on destroying the world. I like it because of how it tells the story with no dialogue. How it uses music to set the pace of the action and that it features plenty of detail and subtle animation techniques, not really seen on GoAnimate at the time (such as paralax movement of objects to give a feeling o...