LAUAN502, Study Task 8

Study Task 8 

To start my research on becoming a working freelancer, I first thought about what my main subject would be when doing commissions. I am more interested in the preproduction side of animation and mainly focus my attention onto the design part of the course. My commission will mainly be based around paid work for storyboard designs, background designs, character designs, and colour scripts.  I am very unaware of how much I would charge for my work, as I do not have any experience when freelancing. I researched online a job of a freelancer and what a freelancer would  charge day to day or for one design. I came across this website:  https://static.a-n.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/Guidance_on_fees_and_day_rates_for_visual_artists_2018.pdf. This PDF document explains what a freelancer should charge based on their experience level. Within the PDF it shows a chart of the prices: 

Even though I think this table is a fair set price for freelancers to use as it based on experience and the type of finished work the freelancer would be able to complete, I would consider charging the individual or company based on how many hours the design took me to do. I would charge by the hours as it may be a simple design that could only take a couple hours; therefore charging a person for the whole day would be wrong.