Re: FLASH: BIGNAME Media Co., Inc.

[Matt Spiegler]

My 2 pennies...


Before you blow them off, ask yourself these questions:


1. Will being involved in this project, however segmented your role, help you

in the long run by being an excellent portfolio piece?


2. is there the possibility that you'll only design the character parts on THIS

project, but that down the road they might have other projects in which you

would play a more significant part?


If you feel like they're planning to take your work, show you the door, and

then give someone else 100% credit when the final product comes out, you might

want to pass. Anytime you end up in a situation of trying to reclaim credit for

designs which others have already been lauded for, you invariably end up

looking like a bitter and jealous designer who's trying to steal someone elses

glory, even if you really were the one with the vision. But if they'll give you

credit where its due, it could be worth it.


Brian wrote:


> This is starting to suck a little.

> I mentioned a couple of days back about having the chance to do online

> animation work for a BIGNAME media company, and mentioned how they were

> going to go with Flash.

> Obviously.

> Anyway, with the conversations I have been having back and forth with these

> people, it's starting to sound like as if they only intend for me to create

> a master set of character parts, and that someone else will be doing all the

> animating!

> OK, so I haven't gotten THAT cleared up yet, but what do I tell them if it

> comes to that?

>

> 1)That I do all the animating or they find another Flash artist? And maybe

> lose the job anyway?

>

> 2)That I create the master set and charge them out the ying-yang for it? And

> how much?

> I thought I had some work coming to me for the interim, and now...:-(

>

> -Brian Matthews

>

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