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How much does an animated project cost? What factors should you consider when pricing or paying for an animated project? How many rounds of revisions do you give? What about taxes? Learn from our experts what they wish they knew when they started out pricing their work.



Moderator: Sandee Chamberlain (Professor, Kennesaw State University/ ASIFA-South learning coordinator)

Guest Panelist:


Chris Malone is an Atlanta-based cartoonist who was worked on a variety of shows such as Archer, Cyanide and Happiness, Adam Ruins Everything, Game Grumps, and more. He focuses primarily in preproduction, with storyboards/animatics, background design, and character design. He's bummed that he can't share what he just made for Nick Jr, but he's excited to get a chance to talk about it once it eventually gets unveiled. He also an Assistant Professor of Animation over at Kennesaw State University


Creative Strategist and Career Consultant, Allyssa A Lewis, is also a prime-time television EMMY® winning Animator most noted for her animation on over 75 episodes and promos of FX's series "Archer". She has created content for NBC's "30 Rock", Discovery Channel, Mtv, i am OTHER, Animation Domination, Apple, ComicCon San Diego, Georgia Public Broadcasting (PBS), and Captain Planet's Planeteer Movement. As Founder and Executive Director of Georgia's first and largest animation resource and staffing agency, My Animation Life (MAL), her team works to find creative strategies and solutions for both studios and independents.


Joe Karg is an accomplished illustrator that specializes in the art of album covers, show posters and animated background illustrations. He most notably worked on the Emmy award-winning show, Archer, for FX, and in 2016, he was voted Creative Loafing's Best Illustrator of Atlanta. His clients include AMC, Judd Apatow Productions and Viacom.

Since 2016, Joe focused his entire soul into inking and coloring Chris Bivins' drawings. All of his inking is done on paper, and he screams like a wild beast while making his marks. Claw carvings can be found on the inside of his office door, and it's said that every drop of his blood was replaced with pure, black India ink.