I am going to toss this out here: Most writers? Zero budget.
And I don't mean fanfiction, though that applies too. I mean most writers don't get paid a cent until their work is done, and published.
As for artists... This twit brags about being a non-union studio... So why use expensive diversity hires and people-of-hair-colors? Go on youtube, look up "I paid x dollars to animate this on Fiverr", and pick, like, five animators with loosely similar styles. Shoestring budget? Some of these people are making movie-quality music and animation pieces for less than a hundred bucks.
Do not blame the budget. CR paid out the ass for diversity hires, they get diversity hires quality. And yes, they paid out the ass. Seeing the qualities in the product, they paid far too much. The show's purpose wasn't to make a good product. If it was, it would have never hired people like this woman. The show's purpose was to virtue signal.
I could have made a better show at 5k per episode. Maybe 6k to pay myself as well. I don't know what they paid, but I suspect it's a great deal higher than 60-70k for a whole season.
If it isn't, and they did the whole season on, like, 50k or something across the entire staff, then I take it back, and my full respect to them.
Probably the whole point of original CR content is so that people from their parent company can double dip. They can say to their Japanese owners "We barely take in any profit, it all goes to buying content, we even use retarded Moldovan developers to save on costs." Meanwhile they get paid for work from Crunchyroll and then they get paid again for producing their original content.
I am going to toss this out here: Most writers? Zero budget.
And I don't mean fanfiction, though that applies too. I mean most writers don't get paid a cent until their work is done, and published.
As for artists... This twit brags about being a non-union studio... So why use expensive diversity hires and people-of-hair-colors? Go on youtube, look up "I paid x dollars to animate this on Fiverr", and pick, like, five animators with loosely similar styles. Shoestring budget? Some of these people are making movie-quality music and animation pieces for less than a hundred bucks.
Do not blame the budget. CR paid out the ass for diversity hires, they get diversity hires quality. And yes, they paid out the ass. Seeing the qualities in the product, they paid far too much. The show's purpose wasn't to make a good product. If it was, it would have never hired people like this woman. The show's purpose was to virtue signal.
I could have made a better show at 5k per episode. Maybe 6k to pay myself as well. I don't know what they paid, but I suspect it's a great deal higher than 60-70k for a whole season.
If it isn't, and they did the whole season on, like, 50k or something across the entire staff, then I take it back, and my full respect to them.
Probably the whole point of original CR content is so that people from their parent company can double dip. They can say to their Japanese owners "We barely take in any profit, it all goes to buying content, we even use retarded Moldovan developers to save on costs." Meanwhile they get paid for work from Crunchyroll and then they get paid again for producing their original content.