2006-05-07, 02:13 | Link #101 |
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My friend's brother works in Japan doing background art for anime. I don't know what studio or anything, but I know he gets paid shit, but he doesn't mind because he's hoping to work his way up.
I guess its the same thing as like, with crack dealers. The people who do the deals on the street get paid LESS than minimum wage. like $3 an hour. and its so dangerous. the only people who get paid well are the big head honchos. they go through all that trouble in the hope that one day, they could make it big. even though that's such a small chance.. Does anyone know how much mangaka get paid? Or manga editors, etc? IS it possible for gaijin to work in these sort of positions? Ahh.. Maybe it would be easier to have a Japanese psuedonym like Wao mentioned. |
2006-05-07, 02:17 | Link #102 |
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I suspect most manga companies wouldn't let gaijin be manga editors unless they've been living in Japan for ages and have very good knowledge of Japanese, or are Important People. Even if you haven't lived there long but you have great knowledge of Japanese they might feel very strange.
But that's so cool, your friend's brother doing background art for anime... I'm considering going to Japan to work in the anime industry although it's really really really shit and you have to figure your way around Tokyo very quickly (although most of the time you'd probably end up sleeping in the studio), but eh... it's really very tough...
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2006-05-07, 02:25 | Link #103 | |
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2006-05-07, 08:20 | Link #104 | |
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The only informative post about mangaka is this. This is such an interesting thread; I just read from page 1 to 6 and my eyes hurt now. @.@
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2006-05-07, 08:43 | Link #105 | |
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But it's a long, road, and you'll face a lot of discrimination on the way up (it's different from typical ex-pat job... There are no special benefits, usually.) Personally, I respect anyone who does it, but I don't know if I'd want to dedicate my entire life to anime/manga... That's a little much, for me anyway... I don't know if anyone brought up this topic, but it is similar for those making their living in the domestic anime scene (translating, etc.) The problem is that, for the majority of people, they can make a better living working a "regular job". I know that's the case for me... Even the top media translators in America don't pull in 6 figure salaries. Sure, maybe some of the executives do, but what else is new? The decision to make your living off this stuff has to come out of a passion and not practicality. -Tofu |
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2006-05-08, 00:17 | Link #106 |
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^Maybe translators are doing it as a part-time job?
Anyway, I was just thinking, how does the manga addicts fare in Japan? I was watching some drama, and this non-otaku guy in his 20s was reading manga and his girl friend sort of teased him about it. Common sense would tell me that those reading after high school would be deemed inappropriate as well, but then again, someone said manga is the biggest publication format in Japan.
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2006-05-08, 00:40 | Link #107 | |
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2006-05-08, 10:46 | Link #108 | |
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But this may not be the case with original animation works. Hayao Miyazaki is a world-famous director, but he knows how to animate (Unlike Walt Disney who mostly relied on artist-bullying). And with independent creators like those who did Voices of a Distant Star / Beyond the Clouds, and Pale Cocoon / Aquatic Language, and I'm pretty sure most of the festival-grade anime shorts. The full rights lies with the creator. Back to derivative works, now what I'm curious is how many multi-millions Ryukishi07 / 7th Expansion got and if it was similar to TYPE-MOON. |
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2006-05-11, 14:42 | Link #109 | |
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Considering how he made the story and the characters, royalties will all go to him. That includes royalties from figurines, artbooks, anime DVDs (for original concept and original character designs), upcoming PS2 game, manga sales, basically anything with the Higurashi no Naku Koroni tag on it, he'll receive a percentage. And that's not including the sales he has received for selling +100,000 copies of his doujin game that sells for around 1000 yen. Simple math will yield 100,000,000 yen (~USD $900,000). |
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2006-05-14, 06:16 | Link #110 |
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Can anyone out there who is a animator help me out?
hello, i'm a new member in this fourm.
i'm doing a research on lifestyle of an animator. i was thinking if anyone who know or is an animator to give me some information of what kind of working environment do they work in? what is their living lifestyle? what do they really need? let's say if they are out overseas to teach as a lecturer. what do they want to live in a hotel? or a service apartment? do they need a studio? what will they do after they came back after teaching? how to they get inspiration from? example how do they get inpire? hmm, i guess that's about it. i really hope you guys could help me out. i will really appreciate it. thank you Last edited by ChiefQiang; 2006-05-14 at 07:30. |
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2006-05-16, 16:15 | Link #114 | |
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Is it tax-free? I wonder.. |
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2006-05-17, 09:02 | Link #117 | |
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$5.99 for OVA 1 and $11 for OVA 2 on DDD |
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2006-07-05, 04:46 | Link #118 |
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Forgive me if this has been posted before, but Paranoia Agent has an episode that deals with an employee at an animation studio. At least to me, it was kind of a heads up which got me to think "okay, I know being an animator is far from a dream job, but maybe it's really just a crap job?".
I don't have any experience from this type of work, however I have done some design work that has required similar work hours as described earlier. And when it comes down to that type of work, it doesn't matter if you like what you're doing; you end up feeling like a caged monkey in a zoo, having to eat one banana for each bloody snot-nosed kid that wants to point at you and say "Hey, look at that monkey go. He sure luves his bananas!". No, the monkey does not love bananas no more.. A really interesting thread by the way. Thanks for the inside views DaFool and kj1980 |
2006-09-07, 13:21 | Link #119 | |
i miss japan!
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there are lots of artists, musicians, and writers--- but not everyone can share the same fame (and money). unfortunately for some artists, their work only became famous posthumously so they never enjoyed their supposed "returns" |
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2006-10-15, 01:51 | Link #120 |
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Will you take animation as your major because of anime?
Basically I'm just wondering...so I post this question here:
If you are really obsess with anime, will you take animation as your major and try to get a degree if you have a chance? Or will you try to be involved in animation industry in the future? (even in this industry they mainly make cartoon and 3D animation... ) And why? Last edited by hiroober; 2006-10-15 at 02:07. |
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