Hey,

We're recruiting an Animator to join our team and im not sure about how to divide the Animation payment per task.

For our 3D Artists its payment per level assets.

For code its level based as well,

Although since animations are loop-able and we're reusing rigs and models, i have no idea how to divide her payment and i dont want to risk making her over-work or under-work.

Anyone has any tips on how could i break this down?

for simplicity's sake, lets say the game is 10 levels and its $10 per task.

Look at the latest Game Salary Survey. Figure out the ratio of artist pay to animator pay, and apply that ratio to your artist pay.

in the long run, overall,

value per man-hour = total man-hours / total profits.

of course this does not take into consideration how hard it is to find individuals capable of contributing those man-hours. for example, i would expect it might be harder to find a disney-skill-level animator than it would be to find a good 3d modeling artist. its a rarer skillset - especially in this day and age.

so not all man hours are created equal.

the term in the equation should be something like man-hours * skill value. IE skill-man-hours.

Norman we pay per objective not time, still good info thanks for sharing guys.

Not often I hear paying per objective, but seems like a good way of doing it. I would say that for the total project they reccive $1000 (actually $1200, $200 is hold off as a "bonus"), reccive $250 start, put $250 after first milestone, $250 second and on delivery on time, recciving $550

Norman we pay per objective not time, still good info thanks for sharing guys.

and the time required for an objective determines its value. perhaps modified by the skill set required.