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Animated Graphics!

Here are some examples of the styles available, and the approximate costs for each one. Since all of our work is custom, it is impossible to put a fixed price tag on anything without knowing beforehand what the specs are. We can, however, tell you that our hourly rate for graphics is $40 USD per hour. The longer a graphic takes to make, the more it will cost.

Contact us with your specifications for a quote.

Wouldn't something like this look great at the top of your page?
Move the mouse over this image to see its animation!
Our animated mouseover headline banner actually comprises two animated GIFs and one static one (for its default state). This banner totals 13 frames. Our rate for a graphic element like this, involving a basic morphing or tweening between two static images (we don't recommend anything much more elaborate for a mouseover banner) including cut & paste HTML code, is $75





This two panel animation is a terrific way to display a company logo and a very short message at the same time. Although it has only two panels, the first involves three objects and is thus a bit more complex than most animations. The largest of the three versions shown is quite cumbersome at over 100 kilobytes, which is why we deliver all of our animations in several sizes (at no extra charge!) so you can choose the one that best balances appearance on your pages with bandwidth concerns. We will also shrink your images to a specific width or height if need be. A graphic in this style would typically cost $60

This image has four really simple movements that come together with an impact! We can use this style to assemble either a short message, as we have done here, or a company logo. Or, we can do both - assemble the message and then morph/fade to a company logo or even a photo of a product or person! In exactly this style an image similar to this would cost $60; to assemble a company logo instead of a text message would be somewhat more (likely $75) because of additional work needed to ensure the logo falls together correctly. We can also double-up and use this technique to assemble a message and then a logo, or vice versa. For this kind of work please email us for a quote with your specifications.

We don't mind admitting that this image was easier to create than it looks. This is the style that got us started and it is still our favorite - the text rollout. We charge a flat $15 per panel (up to 25 characters each) with a minimum of three panels. This one has four panels and one like it would cost $60 to build.

This is a very interesting style! It is a text rollout, of course, but we have corrected the perspective on the laptop's screen - the characters are slightly smaller and higher as the rollout proceeds to the right! This one has five panels and a special effect plus the perspective correction throughout, and a graphic in this style, similar in complexity, would cost $90 to $120.



Yes, we do marquees! A graphical marquee can be a very effective way to draw someone's eye to a brief but important message on a crowded web page, and would probably find itself the center of attention on a sparsely dressed page! This is one style where file size can very easily become a major issue, so choose your message carefully! We have included two sizes in this example to show how a smaller version can retain most of the impact of the larger one at great savings in byte count! This marquee would cost about $45 to produce. We don't recommend making a marquee much larger than these.

This is a very complex image! This one features a two-object bidirectional fade, object translations (movement) AND a short text rollout! At 13 panels, a graphic like this wouldn't come cheap, about $150 to $200, but that amount includes extra time taken to optimize the image's file size.

Cool, eh! This graphic is actually a bit of an exaggerated example of how we can translate objects along an arbitrary path. This 468x60 standard banner graphic is only 29k in size! Of course, we can reduce further to fit an advanced graphic like this into even the tightest constraints imposed by banner hosting services. Our rate for a graphic like this is $60 and up, depending on the complexity of the path (this one is very simple).

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