ANIMATION RATES FOR PRODUCTIONS UTILISINGANIMATION

(CEL, SAND/PAINT ON GLASS, PUPPET, CLAYMATION ANDCOMPUTER GENERATED IMAGING TECHNIQUES)

ProducerDirectorProduction Designer

Fee to be individually negotiated, butnot less than the equivalent of £696 per40-hour week

SFX Rostrum CamerapersonArt Director (Visual Developer)Production ManagerEditor

£615 per 40-hour week or equivalent

Character Designer £125 per character; contract shouldinclude a copyright clause which enablesthe Character Designer to benefit fromthe commercial success of an originalcharacter including a share in the profitsof any spin-off programming ormerchandising

Model (Lighting) CamerapersonSenior model Animator

£653 per 40-hour week

Key Animator (including glass, cgi andcomparable techniques)

£653 per 40-hour week

Storyboard ArtistLayout Artist

Minimum fee £3,777 per 10 minutes ofanimation; higher rates for longer boardsand particularly complex work

Senior 3d/2d Computer AnimatorArtworking Animator

£622 per 40-hour week

SFX DesignerSet MakerModel AnimatorComputer AnimatorModel Costume DesignerModel Set/Prop Designer

£592 per 40-hour week

Background Artist Minimum £623 for simplest work; higherrates according to complexity

2d Animator £592 per 40-hour week

Computer Animation Compositor £561 per 40-hour week

Studio Manager £528 per 40-hour week

Dubbing EditorRostrum CamerapersonProduction Co-ordinatorAssistant Model AnimatorAssistant Model DesignerAssistant Model MakerAssistant SFX DesignerAssistant Rostrum CamerapersonColouristCheckerSupervisor Paint and TraceComputer Department SupervisorAssistant Background Artist

£491 per 40-hour week

Assistant 2d Animator £491 per 40-hour week

Clean-up Artist (Storyboard and layout) £1867 per 10 minutes of animationhigher rates for more complex work

Rendering ArtistComputer Rendering Artist

£486 per 40-hour week

Inbetweener £486 per 40-hour week

TracerColour Mixer

£467 per 40-hour week

Xerox/Cel Machine Operator £467 per 40-hour week

Cel PainterComputer Colouring Artist

£454 per 40-hour week

Production Assistant £420 per 40-hour week

Assistant Editor £410 per 40-hour week

Video Line Test OperatorComputer Background ArtistComputer Scanner Operator

£374 per 40-hour week + locally agreedproductivity bonus

Runner £215 - £280 per 40-hour weekdepending on experience. A runner's jobis to provide general and messengerservices to the production as a wholeand they should receive training andsupervision on any animation-specificduties

These rates do not include the cost of materials, special skills or specialistequipment and additional payment should be negotiated for these. If the work is tobe done off the employer's premises, the rates should acknowledge the additionalcosts of space, heating, lighting, telephone, and other overheads. It may also beappropriate for work with extremely tight deadlines to have an additional premiumapplied to acknowledge the costs of this in terms of the individual's resources andtime.