Monday, August 09, 2010

Of note to artists on DeviantArt

How NOT to find an artist: 


Do not look for either professional artists, or an artist that has done a lot of game design work in the past. The problem with artists who do this as their full time job is that they’re usually expensive. Compared to what you can find through art sites, these guys tend to cost an arm and a leg. Artists who have done a lot of game design work are also bad for a similar reason, they know how much flash games can earn so they expect a decent percentage of the profit. It’s ridiculous to pay something 50% of a sponsorship when you can find someone else who would accept $500 for the same job. When your game sells for $10,000, the difference in cost is a multitude of 10.

Instead he recommends hiring people fresh off DeviantArt, paying them a fraction of their worth, cutting them out of any royalties on the success of the game and deliberately keeping them in the dark and screwing them as much as possible…

Check the link for the rest of his brilliant advice on how to flush ethics down a toilet.

3 comments:

LuisNCT said...

WTF!

Ing said...

Thanks so much for posting this. Is there any advice on what one should do and request if they're hit up by someone like this?

Not that it matters, probably, as the fact that many will take the bait means that those who are smart and won't are screwed.

Nate Simpson said...

I like how he describes artists as "something," rather than "someone." At least the guy's ideologically consistent.