Tuesday, March 17, 2009
Sunday, March 15, 2009
28 Ways to Make Money Creating Cartoons
Let's explore the various methods of using animation to make money, a few I'm sure you expect and perhaps a couple you haven't yet considered. How long does it take to earn a living making cartoons?
This article is targeting independent artists. Of course you can join an animation studio and earn a living that way, but we're more interested in starting from scratch in your basement and building your own audience. This article assumes that you release your cartoons on a regular basis on a website that you own, slowly building your fan base (or very very fast if you're JibJab and it's an election year).
The amount of time listed for each item is my estimate for how long you will have to work on your cartoons before that particular item will earn you $1000 a month. $12,000 a year is not especially a living wage, I realize, but it's a nice round number that will help you appropriately gauge the amount of effort required.
Advertising
The easiest and most straight-forward way of earning money is to allow advertisers the ability to place ads on your website. The downside of advertising is how popular you need to be in order to make a living off of it, taking at least three years to become truly viable.
Adsense Sign Up for Adsense)
Google's flagship breadwinner is familiar to most people, and quite easy to install. Beginning sites often draw 100% of their revenue from Adsense, and there's nothing wrong with that at first. Once you start to build an audience (likely after a year) it would be wise to branch out into other money making options.
This article is targeting independent artists. Of course you can join an animation studio and earn a living that way, but we're more interested in starting from scratch in your basement and building your own audience. This article assumes that you release your cartoons on a regular basis on a website that you own, slowly building your fan base (or very very fast if you're JibJab and it's an election year).
The amount of time listed for each item is my estimate for how long you will have to work on your cartoons before that particular item will earn you $1000 a month. $12,000 a year is not especially a living wage, I realize, but it's a nice round number that will help you appropriately gauge the amount of effort required.
Advertising
The easiest and most straight-forward way of earning money is to allow advertisers the ability to place ads on your website. The downside of advertising is how popular you need to be in order to make a living off of it, taking at least three years to become truly viable.
Adsense Sign Up for Adsense)
Google's flagship breadwinner is familiar to most people, and quite easy to install. Beginning sites often draw 100% of their revenue from Adsense, and there's nothing wrong with that at first. Once you start to build an audience (likely after a year) it would be wise to branch out into other money making options.
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