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Animator ers Project's New Music Video Raises the Bar For Animation Wages
posted on by Kim Morrissy
The Animator ers non-profit organization has produced a crowdfunded music video, which aims to set a new standard for industry conditions by transparently paying its animation talent higher than average wages. Vocalist Caleb Hyles posted the "Back To You" music video on his YouTube channel on Sunday.
According to the organization's crowdfunding page, the animators who worked on the video were paid "180 dollars per keyframe which is 2-4 times more than the industry standard."
The organization is now crowdfunding for a second music video, which will feature voice actress and singer Aya Hirano as the vocalist. The organization plans to produce at least one new short animation per year and scale up the payment structure to a fixed salary rather than by piece rate. This new campaign is called "The New Anime Making System Project Phase 2."
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The full credits are below:
Storyboard Artist, Director, Character Designer, Editor
Kenichi Kutsuna
Animation Directors
Kenichi Kutsuna
Yūta Araki
Background Artist
Yuki Funagakure
Colorization Planning & Stylization
Junko Tsukidate
Compositors
Tatsuya Fukumoto
Rikei
Aozora Maeda (STUDIO COLORIDO)
Key Animators
Yūta Araki
Taishi Fujiki
Ryoko
In-between Animators
Studio PaTHoS
Tubasa Teshigahara
Yasuko Nagura
Animation Clean-up
ULY DOUGA
Assistant Compositor
Shunichi Sotta
Production Assistant
Shunsuke Fukui
Production Manager
Yoshiaki Kakui
Planning and Development
Animator ers
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Music Staff
Director, Producer, Song-Writer, & Lyricist
Mason Lieberman
Orchestrator, Co-Arranger
Kevin Penkin
Lead Vocalists
Donna Burke
Adriana Figueroa
Jason Paige
Caleb Hyles
Brina Palencia
Electric Guitar
Jules Conroy
Acoustic Guitar
David Gibson McLean
Saxophone
Carlos Eiene
Trumpet
John Robert MATZ
Violin Ensemble
Jeff Ball
Diwa De Leon
Patti Rudisill
David Morales Boroff
Zack Rapp
Drums
Fabrizio Cavallaro
Mixing Engineer
Matthew Templeman
Mastering Engineer
Jett Galindo
Animator ers was founded in 2010. It runs the Animator Dormitory project, a dormitory located in Tokyo for new animators. In 2011, it launched The New Animator Grand Prix contest aimed at new animators, offering a year's worth of housing to prize winners. The organization also regularly shares information about labor issues in the anime industry through its YouTube channel.
Sources: Email Correspondence, GoGetFunding
