Custom Voicetoons Only $10.00

Thanks for the reply about the voicetoons clip rate. This is a funny business, voice overs. Rate are all over the board and really go by talent to talent, project to project.

Throughout my own career I've seen, paid out and have been paid rates for a 60-sec tv/radio commercial in small town usa at about $125.00, while the national use for such a spot at $1000.00. (usually limited to 13-weeks use)

However message on-hold & narrations on the other hand pay less due to the non-adv nature for the usage. (e.g. tapes, audio books, dvd, training, medical, memoirs, etc) industrial narrations usually pay between $25 and $50 per minute / page but again the budget varies from client to client, case to case.

These both can be based on union status and if union usually pay the going SAG / AFTRA rates of several hundreds per spot / day and per voice over.

Our wonderful world of animation and gaming geared towards "syndication and retail sales" is even more strange as most wish to use the voiced product to make a gazillion reselling licenses, or units. (most do not but can you say sponge bob, rugrats, etc) so these rates range from the extreme of $25.00 on the low end to $250 - $500 per acted minute depending on use, number of character voices, role rank, how many episodes, the studio status (e.g. pixar, or bobby d's toon house and is it for a web flash, $250,00 pilot, $200 student film, free contest, 26x11:00 series, 94-min feature film, etc)

This rate is also determined by the talent and his desire to work, offer discounts to student, etc and how much value the "buyer" of talent places on the character voice in their project and can be quoted by the level of talent to be used. Lets face it we all can not be tim, bob or nancy. :-)

Guess at the end of the day is is "you get what you pay for" when it comes to the talent buyer, and "you get what you can" when it comes to the vo talent. The value is in the eyes of thre beholder and guess one can say this for all creative talent.

So my feeling wearing different hats at different times of the week is that if the cost is about $100 bucks for me to bring to life my 90-seconda of animation, a short film, flash, or trailer it is well worth it to have professional quality, well acted, voice character track verses using my room-mate, landlord and sister as actors. :-)