Straight Talk About Making Money

[Lenny Boudreau]

Is there money to be made making web animations? We all know that the people at the very top of the game are making enough money to pay high price call girls $2000 an hour JUST to drive them around in their limousines, but what about the rest of us?

How many of you do this for a full time living, part time to supplement a "day job", for occasional chump change, or simply as a hobby? I fall in the "occasional chump change" category. Nothing I do is commissioned. I make animations and videos, post them on certain sites that pay a royalty, and then three to six months later I get a check or a PayPal payment for two or three hundred bucks (minus those PayPal fees).

I think of it as supporting my habit. I guess it's not bad. I could be spending a crap load more on golf clubs and golf course fees every year. Plus, creating web content means I get to be around my kids more often than if I golfed. My kids love helping out with voice acting or suggesting silly jokes for use in my videos.

What avenues are there? Mobile content. Online greeting cards. AtomFilms. Anything else out there I should look at.

What are you guys doing?

Lenny

[Kevin Smith]

I think that South Park episode was correct when they showed that if you want to make money, old media is still the only way to go. New media is useful for getting noticed, but unless you can turn a webpage into a business, like Penny Arcade, you're not going to get much money. Some people prefer new media though.

[Temris]

That'd be something I'd love to hear about too, actually. I've been hired to work on a web series before, but I'd really like to know how to get a web series going so that you can have the money to hire other people to work on it, ya know? Is it sort of a gamble, where you're investing money in making it, then trying to market the show and products? 'Cuz if you dont make any profit off of it, then you'd be in the hole and would have to make an even bigger gamble to try another idea. That is, if you feel risky enough to spend money on having anyone but yourself (and maybe your friends volunteering to help) doing everything on the show.

[Lavalle Lee]

I just have ads on my site www.flashcartoons.org.

They pay for the hosting, thats about it. I would one day love to make cartoons for tv and movies, that is the big bucks!

Where do i sign up to make money off greeting cards??

[Lenny Boudreau]

Yeah, ads are one way to make some cash.

Here's a decent article on how to make money doing freelance greeting card work.

http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/165134/how_to_find_greetin...