Originally Posted by bronco67

As someone who has been doing production animation for 15 years, I can tell you that pricing should never be based on how long it takes to render. It's about the work involved in making the animation. Its on the animator to have enough machines to render, so that never factors in for the client to worry about...well, maybe a little.

How much sweat do you put into the actual modeling, texturing, creation of the movement and post-processing? That's where the price should be. Not trying to tell you how to do it. Just sayin.