For $199/year plus 10% of your earnings, you’ll be able to sell your animated short directly on Vimeo. Probably the easiest and cheapest solution for the less tech-savvy people, or for those who does not have a large audience. Here are some of the ways you can sell your short directly to your audience: Vimeo on Demand When we launch our next short Tasteful it will be much easier for us to sell it (since we’ve been talking about it for such a long time and have been building a following for the past 3 years) compared to someone who simply releases their short out of thin air. But that also means you’ll have to get 2000 people to buy your film, which isn’t an easy task, especially if you haven’t spent time building an audience. Say you sell it for $5, you will only need 2000 views to get to that $10,000 figure we talked about earlier. Selling your animated short directly to your audience can be much more profitable. Here is the list of some of our favorite YouTube animation channels. That way they can produce much more videos. The more popular YouTube animators often resort to a limited animation style, more similar to an animatic, and almost always in 2D. If you only upload your shorts you will have a hard time getting traction, but if you create some momentum around it with other content, you will have an easier time growing on YouTube. Uploading making-of videos, tutorials and production-vlogs. This is what I’ve done since the beginning. However, there is a way an animation channel can do great on YouTube, and that’s by creating content around your shorts. That’s one of the reasons gaming channels do so well, they upload almost every day and their videos can go on for a long long time. These two factors create a lot of difficulty for animators, since it takes such a long time to create a short animation, and it’s usually pretty short. YouTube not a great platform for animators because it relies on watch time and frequency of uploads. And again, that’s with the unlikely scenario of managing to produce 2 very popular animated shorts in one year. Your total revenue for that year will then be around $10,ooo. Then, let’s say each short gets 5 Million views by some stroke of luck from the virality God. Here’s why it’s not the most effective method, though: Let’s say you make 2 animated shorts per year, which is INCREDIBLY hard to do. You make a short, upload it to YouTube, monetize your channel by enabling ads and watch the money flows. This method is the simplest one, but probably the least effective. Having said that, there are ways to monetize making films, and here are a few you can consider. It takes a long time to make shorts, and the financial benefits are often small. I know it’s funny coming from me, but it’s true. Not the best business modelįirst I should say that making animated shorts isn’t the best thing to build a business around. I’ve recently been asked if it’s even possible to make money by creating animated shorts. However, I believe this is an important issue to talk about, especially for artists, since the art-school system is lacking when it comes to educating students about it. A topic that is rarely discussed on this blog, and one that artists tend to stay away from, fearing ideas like “Selling out” or “compromising your art”.
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