feedmyleg posted:

Any musicians in here? I'm looking to commission a soundalike/parody song of The Blob theme song, which seems like it's musically fairly simple, though I've got no clue how difficult it would be to get the instrumentation to sound close to the original. I've also got no idea what this sort of thing would cost but happy to discuss—PMs are open!

Boba Pearl posted:

Puppy Time posted:

Do you have any style preferences?

White Chocolate posted:

I'm a writer/editor. Been writing novels for years, serious for the past year. I do developmental edits. Dev edits are where we look at your story to make sure that it flows and that you don't have big plot holes, and get it ready to be published/sold.

I can edit your science fiction, fantasy, romance novels(generally not erotica, but I'm open to a discussion).

I'll also do line edits and proofreading if you've already got a developmental editor. Goon discount of $20 off whatever everyone else pays.

Developmental editing/manuscript is about $5-7 per page, ( $0.13/word)
copyediting is $5-8 per page, ($0.015.word)
proofreading for like $4-5 per page.($0.012/word)

I take paypal/venmo. Send me a PM, email me at jdbeddoe at googlemail or go through my fiver link.

https://www.fiverr.com/beddoe/edit-your-science-fiction-fantasy-or-romance-novel

White Chocolate posted:

Developmental editing/manuscript is about $5-7 per page, ( $0.13/word)
copyediting is $5-8 per page, ($0.015.word)
proofreading for like $4-5 per page.($0.012/word)

Fuschia tude posted:

Unless I'm missing something here, your per-page and per-word costs aren't aligning. Either the first line is off by an order of magnitude, or the last two are.

Boba Pearl posted:

I want Art Assets for DungeonDraft, which is a mapping software. You don't have to worry about making them "work" there's just some size requirements that are involved. I'm posting this multiple places, but Goons (especially ART-Goons) get first priority. My discord is Boba Pearl#3458 (You can just copy paste that whole thing in there, it'll work.) Here's the pitch for the art assets I'd like to commission:

Urban modern environments in the body of an undead/cancerous creature. It's flesh is raw, pink, and oozing the regenerative magic used on it making it grow eyes, teeth, nails, bones, pustules and tumors all over itself. The people who live here have carved their homes out of this creature. The bones of it as hard as metal, it's muscles leathery but strong like mithril. I want textures that reflect this environment. That I can use to make a bunch of maps in this setting, not too mention I do maps and things like this a lot. It is in fact, one of my "recurring themes" so having flesh assets on hand would be awesome. I do not plan to sell the maps I make, and I will only use it for my DND Games.

In the link below, I have the size requirements, reference art, and different kind of assets I'd like to commission, along with my budget (It's 100 - 150$): https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1gW2-x95cajQJPKucJxMT6s1g-gj2kFDHUmvmzvfEwLc/edit?usp=sharing

Vakal posted:

I've had a story for a graphic novel kicking around my head for years that I would like to do something with. I like storyboarding but I can't draw worth a poo poo.

I've been checking out Fiverr that has been linked in this thread many times. Is it a good site to use or is there someplace better to check when trying to commission artists?

Mr.Misfit posted:

Hello @ all,

I'm a tabletop rpg writer and require an artist working in pixel art to work to work on a number of contract pieces.
The pieces are to be used to a dystopian scifi tabletop rpg I'm currently developing and will be printed in a A5 book format.
What I'm mostly looking for are "space planet views", "planetary installations" and "people in dangerous situations".
Knowledge of German is appreciated, as it allows faster understanding for the pieces needed, but isn't required.

Basically I want to commission some pieces for my next game.
This is the first time I'm going for original instead of stock art, so if there are some things I'm doing wrong, apologies.

Arty things I have so far:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1GdjT8nl9LQiFc2P-ykaQruMjRObRcovx/view?usp=sharing - Cover MockUp
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ThCKFJGdjBvup_VyNbj7VGnQJWjUcHry/view?usp=sharing - Example PixelArt #1
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1uqWdzUTjLLLlCo3il7OEAQ16mHAwRVx6/view?usp=sharing - Example PixelArt #2

PM me if you're interested and I'm sure we can work something out.

Raenir Salazar posted:

You can test your luck and either post an ad in the art commission subreddits (bearing in mind that the quality... Varies...) or do what I do and start following random artists you like and keep an eye out for artshare tweets to find more artists to follow and then track the promising ones via spreadsheet to contact later as you save up your budget. I tend to commission a wide spread of artists to draw versions of my characters/OCs in their style and the ones I like the most I bump up to top of the list. I've commissioned a lot of artists so I know my way around!

Depending on the style you're going for I think you can expect a page to be uncoloured around 100 to 150$ and 50% to maybe up to twice that coloured. For my manga project I have on the back burner I think I've estimated I'd need 3,000$ at least for 35ish pages with the artists who are a little more affordable; and you basically want that locked in, at least 50% upfront once you find an artist you like working with if you want them to be primarily working on your project.

Vakal posted:

Hey thanks, that's all very useful to know.

The story I'd like to do is not really that long, but yeah, as I plan it out the number of pages is adding up quickly. Then with that the whole Good/Cheap/Fast equation kicks in.

I don't know if it's better to try and eat the cost of the whole thing and just hope I could do something profitable with it once it's done. Or, if there's such a thing as doing it serialized style and posting small sections (5ish pages at a time) online and hoping to eventually build up enough of a fan base to do a patreon or something to help offset the cost. It's a less risky option but I'm not sure how it would work with the artist.

Raenir Salazar posted:

You gotta look at this as a business and marketing endeavour and try to think smartly as early a lead up as possible.

Vakal posted:

Thanks for all the information. It's good to know that someone else has went through this before.

On the topic of rights though, how do you make sure there won't be any issues with the artists down the line when it comes to trying to make money off of the final product?

I've seen agreement documents like this online https://www.docracy.com/7h1enekgrf/artwork-commission-agreement

Is something like that good enough?

GoonyMcGoonFace posted:

Hello goons of many varieties!

As part of a typesetting exchange I'm currently doing, I find myself in need of a logo for my bindery. It should involve both ravens and books, considering... bookbinding, and the name ("Seven Ravens Press"). Black and white or spot color is fine, though it needs to look good in greyscale either way. Unfortunately, because of when the exchange is due, my timelines are relatively short. The logo would need to be done by the 1st. A lovely timeline, but I'm hoping the job being small enough means someone can fit it in.

organburner posted:

I am slowly massaging ideas for my first serious game project, which would be free to play but I'd be willing to invest some money into it:
Basically what I'd need to get started is I guess a technical concept artist who could draw me blueprints for fictional but semi-realistic vehicles (they'd start realistic and then end up more strange as the game goes on basically)
So I'm talking about designing tanks, technicals, spg's, gun emplacements and the like and the end result looking like:




I'm still in the process of building a war chest for this, but it would help to know how much I should expect to spend per design. No colours needed and they wouldn't need to be super detailed as I favour a low polygon look (also because I'm hoping anything that would come out of this would eventually run on the Nintendo Switch as well if it becomes a commercial project) The artist would also, for better or worse, have a pretty free hand in designing the vehicles themselves.

The game itself would be a vehicle action game I guess you'd call it, imagine a single player war thunder/world of tanks like thing where you play a variety of vehicles and missions. After the short single player game I'd work on a multiplayer co-op focused follow up.

Raenir Salazar posted:

I think the sweet spot is probably 100-150$ per sheet based on what I've seen, you can probably get fantastic sheets for much higher but I doubt you'd need that much detail a professional technical artist could provide (I've looked into Mecha design artists).

You might be able to find even more affordable options via reddit like /r/HungryArtists but you'd likely be inundated by people whose portfolios don't have what you're looking for and might spend more in the end commissioning cheaper options only to find the quality isn't what you're looking for.

You could start by searching on pinterest for sheets like what you've posted and tracking down the devient art or twitter accounts of the artists and DM'ing them if they do commissions.