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.
One OP song. One ED song. BG music for: Pensive, Suspense, Sad, Action, Happy, Passive. 8 songs total. You'd want the copyright to them, so about 500/song, 4000 total, if you're buying it off Fiverr.
It requires approximately 200 minutes of voice acting. 3.2 hours. With 5 re-takes per line, about 16 hours worth of voice acting. Get them off fiverr, you can get away with minimum wage plus some minor bit. 200 bucks. 4200 running total.
It requires an audio mixer to lay these on tracks. About a day per half-hour. or two weeks FT for the season. Again, get them off Fiverr, likely going to be 25/hour. 80 hours is 2000 bucks. 6200 running total.
Writers! Steal a well-rated medium-length My Little Pony fanfic heavily featuring OCs, change the names and a couple descriptor words, add a character introduction yourself. Then hire a producing writer from some horrible backwater country off Fiverr to change the format to better fit a show. Probably another 10k, they tend to be pricier. 16200 running total.
54.8k to pay Fiverr animators to match lip flaps and animate 240 minutes of media, with all the rest going to you. It seems to run about 100 dollars per minute of animation at a glance. $24000. 40200 running total, the rest going to you. I feel bad about fleecing the voice actors, though, so maybe give them 1.8k more in the budget. 42k.
THAT is how you shoestring-budget. Notice how it never touches on "hire an HR department filled with people of hair color" or "hire a twitter coordinator" or "spend excess money ascertaining what color front-hole the workers may or may not have"? Pure unbridled capitalist meritocracy. Most of the work would still, even, be done by minorities! So you still get woke points by employing Indian, Asian, and African contractors! You just wouldn't know if they were or not. It would not be able to be advertised as such, only for yourself. You'd be selling a shoestring budget show, not diversity hires.
EDIT: Forgot artists. They'd need to make assets for the animator. Drop another 10k, even though it would likely be much less if you were judicious about what assets you needed.
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.
HGS needs the following:
One OP song. One ED song. BG music for: Pensive, Suspense, Sad, Action, Happy, Passive. 8 songs total. You'd want the copyright to them, so about 500/song, 4000 total, if you're buying it off Fiverr.
It requires approximately 200 minutes of voice acting. 3.2 hours. With 5 re-takes per line, about 16 hours worth of voice acting. Get them off fiverr, you can get away with minimum wage plus some minor bit. 200 bucks. 4200 running total.
It requires an audio mixer to lay these on tracks. About a day per half-hour. or two weeks FT for the season. Again, get them off Fiverr, likely going to be 25/hour. 80 hours is 2000 bucks. 6200 running total.
Writers! Steal a well-rated medium-length My Little Pony fanfic heavily featuring OCs, change the names and a couple descriptor words, add a character introduction yourself. Then hire a producing writer from some horrible backwater country off Fiverr to change the format to better fit a show. Probably another 10k, they tend to be pricier. 16200 running total.
54.8k to pay Fiverr animators to match lip flaps and animate 240 minutes of media, with all the rest going to you. It seems to run about 100 dollars per minute of animation at a glance. $24000. 40200 running total, the rest going to you. I feel bad about fleecing the voice actors, though, so maybe give them 1.8k more in the budget. 42k.
THAT is how you shoestring-budget. Notice how it never touches on "hire an HR department filled with people of hair color" or "hire a twitter coordinator" or "spend excess money ascertaining what color front-hole the workers may or may not have"? Pure unbridled capitalist meritocracy. Most of the work would still, even, be done by minorities! So you still get woke points by employing Indian, Asian, and African contractors! You just wouldn't know if they were or not. It would not be able to be advertised as such, only for yourself. You'd be selling a shoestring budget show, not diversity hires.
EDIT: Forgot artists. They'd need to make assets for the animator. Drop another 10k, even though it would likely be much less if you were judicious about what assets you needed.
OOOOORRRRR, just be Tatsuki and work for a percentage cut.
"MERCHANDIZING! MERCHANDIZING! WHERE THE REAL MONEY FROM THE MOVIE IS MADE!" -Spaceballs
Iirc, George Lucas did that with the first Star Wars movie, when the studio heads thought that Stars Wars merch wouldn't sell.
Nobody will ever get the deal Lucas did again. No producer would be dumb enough to sign over ALL the merchandizing rights.
Both sides walked away from that table thinking the other side was a fukkin idiot.