Presentation Slides

Office Space Cost.

We looked into the cost of renting an office in Newcastle and Middlesbrough compared to the cost of renting a house Middleborough.

Newcastle; £250-£450 Month

Middlesbrough; £300-400 Month

Renting an house in Middlesbrough

Middlesbrough; £250-£350 Month (council tax no included)

Company Advertising

As part of our advertising stratergy we have decided to create ads for the company which will go in local newspapers and on local radio. Firstly however we had a go at researching roughly how much this may cost us and although we never actually found any prices here are the links to companies we found that we may have potentually used:

http://www.stevedavidsonadvertising.com/contact.html

http://justoutmarketing.co.uk/advertising-marketing

Competition

Before starting up the business it is good to know who and where are main competitors are so below is a list of companies and their websites that we have checked out and feel would be most likely to be some good competition!

Back2Front Animation
http://www.b2fanimation.com/

Quay Animation Studios
http://www.quaystudios.com/index2.html

Superkrush Films
http://www.superkrush.com/

Studio Moo
http://www.studiomoo.com/

Michael Maddison
http://www.maddisonmultimedia.co.uk/

Ubisoft
http://www.ubi.com/UK/default.aspx

Software pricing

After deciding what software we would be using we needed to research the prices of their licenses, so we simply went and checked out the companys online store and checked out what would cost what!

Below are links to the company websites we used:


https://store2.adobe.com/cfusion/store/index.cfm?store=OLS-UK&gclid=COT064SmyagCFQkLfAodeF4-6A#catID=SPECIALS&loc=en_gb&store=OLS-UK&view=ols_cat




http://usa.autodesk.com/adsk/servlet/index?id=8314527&siteID=123112

Logo

Before we started to design our logo we felt it was best if we checked out some pre existing logos from animation compaines around the world.

Doing this allowed us to see what can work well in a design as well as what to steer away from, so that in the end we create a desing that works well for us whilst looking professional but also eye catching!

Bleow is a moodboard of just some of the lgos that we looked at:

Website development

Below are some of the websites we took inspiration from when it came to creating our website. 

We created our website in moon fruits. This is a free website builder, which gave us the tools to create are website, with the only cost in the development from our website being to buy the name '2acresaniamtion' from godaddy.com.

www.themill.com

www.seedanimation.com

www.framestore.com

www.glassworks.co.uk

business-plan help

Here is a link to some tips and tricks we found on moo.com to help us in terms of writing up your first business plan!

http://uk.moo.com/ideas/write-your-first-business-plan.html

3D Animation Price Quote (average price)

3D animation typically runs around $100-$150 per finished second of
standard television resolution (NTSC) animation.
This figure can change drastically depending on the complexity of the animation
anddetail of the render.


Digital Arts

2D and 3D Animation

$250 per finished second
$350 per finished second

321 Film.com

3D Imagery Rates
Computer Animation per finished second $95.00

Agrijeep
http://www.agrijeep.com/3di/rates.htm

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suite42
http://www.suite42.com/who.htm


3D Animator $400 - $700 per day
2D Artist $250 - $450 per day
http://www.suite42.com/images/rate-card-web.pdf

2D Design
http://www.suite42.com/2d.htm

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Production Services Rate Card
Fiscal Year 2006/2007

Graphic Services
Animation 2D $ 85
Animation 3D $100

All rates are hourly unless otherwise noted. Rates shown are internal
University and State Agency rates. An additional 47% will be charged
for external clients.

IMDC
http://imdc.education.wisc.edu/downloads/IMDC_rates_06_07.pdf

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2D Effects and Support £300.00
3D Animation By quotation based on a guide daily rate of -£2000.00

http://www.framestore-cfc.com/ratecard/index.html


Price can vary between different studio and freelancers, also
depend on the quality of animation and the provider.