| Anime Director Yamazaki Osamu objected to the recent reports about the low salary of anime staff. He said there are large differentials among them. According to Yamazaki, the average salaries of the main staff for one episode of TV anime are: ($1 = 90 - 95 yen) Director: 200,000 - 250,000 yen Episode graphic director: 300,000 yen Audio director: 150,000 - 180,000 yen Episode graphic directors are tied down to one episode for one and half a month. On the other hand, audio directors can finish one episode in two days and they usually work on several series at the same time. Taking the total working hours into account, the monthly earnings are as follows: Director: 500,000 yen Episode graphic director: 200,000 yen Audio director: ~1,800,000 yen Scenario writer: 300,000 yen + royalties Filming staff: 800,000 - 1,000,000 yen Normal animator: 100,000~ Yamazaki claimed the correction of the wage inequalities between the animators and the other production staff. Source: JAnica Club Episode graphic director is the chief of the key and in-between animators. Audio director is in charge of the directions of voice actings, sound effects and BGM. |
dtshykSep 10, 2009 8:21 AM
| That's quite a big range. 1,800,000 yen is £11,772, or nearly $20000. Nice for the audio guys, pretty unfair to the graphic directors. There's probably even more of a discrepancy between directing staff and employees lower in the chain as well. |
krjmiismSep 10, 2009 5:55 PM
| audio directors ftw o.o |
Nitre said: That's quite a big range. 1,800,000 yen is £11, 772, or nearly $20000. Nice for the audio guys, pretty unfair to the graphic directors. There's probably even more of a discrepancy between directing staff and employees lower in the chain as well. yea, i mean take a look at the average monthly pay of the regular animator.. which i'm quite sure is not renumerative of the amount of work they have to put in |
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| if anything animators should be near the mid range rather than the bottom rung. if they do a crappy job it doesn't matter how good the sound is... |
| i'm being a noob, but why do audio directors have higher pays? and yeah, i agree. even if the sound's amazing, it'll still be crap if the art is crap. |
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| So a normal animator earns 13,000$ a year? That's pretty bad. |
elune said: i'm being a noob, but why do audio directors have higher pays? and yeah, i agree. even if the sound's amazing, it'll still be crap if the art is crap. Looking at the OP, it looks like it's because they take on more than one project at once. |
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| Being an animator sounds like working in a sweatshop. |
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| Wow... being in the anime industry really isn't profitable, eh? Anyways, I'm amazed at the salary differences between the animator and the audio director. Both are important to me in an anime, so I think both should deserve about the same salary. Besides, I think animating is a harder job than directing the audio. |
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MiKu214 said: Being an animator sounds like working in a sweatshop. this is close to the truth |
 I am a banana. |
elune said: i'm being a noob, but why do audio directors have higher pays? and yeah, i agree. even if the sound's amazing, it'll still be crap if the art is crap. Audio working is a really technical job, requires a lot of skill a lot of time and a lot of technical know how. There's a lot of math that needs to be known and if your off guess what, your audio is shot to hell. Recording studios are also quiet expensive in Japan. In addition you have to keep up with the new equipment to meet technological demands. It's not so much sitting and saying "talk like this" like a director on a set can do. There's a lot to it believe it or not. There's engineering the audio, mixing the audio, overdubbing (no not dubbing into a foreign language) there's Foley (or sound effects) to be made and it all has to be adequately timed. Though I have to agree it's a travesty that animators are so underpaid. Yes animation is an equally tough job as is audio so they deserve to be paid in the same range. |
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| Reading the post again, dtshyk's added that the audio director also directs the voice actors. For some reason i didn't think this would be the case, i just assumed it was the musical part of the audio, but someone has to tell the voice actors what they're supposed to be doing. Taking that into account, that would be quite a lot of work in some series. Maybe they do deserve to be paid quite a lot, but still, normal animators are way down the scale. |
| if it would be reaaaally a lot of work, then audio directors wouldn't take more projects than one or two :P the fact is that animators are doing slave work as compared with audio directors. |
| The normal animators are waaay underpaid if they only do one anime in one month. I can earn more money in part-time job than them. The audio guys are REALLY busy since they have to do everything.... But once again, the workload is different so the total monthly pay is different. |
bla bla bla The endless debate between fans and haters. At one point, after spending a lot of time on MAL, you just realize it's totally pointless.Niko-kun said: On MAL, everyone who has used the lame rating system becomes a critic and an intellectual by default, haven't you heard? |
Qrko said: if it would be reaaaally a lot of work, then audio directors wouldn't take more projects than one or two :P the fact is that animators are doing slave work as compared with audio directors. Mm, that's true. wakka9ca said: The normal animators are waaay underpaid if they only do one anime in one month. I can earn more money in part-time job than them. The audio guys are REALLY busy since they have to do everything.... But once again, the workload is different so the total monthly pay is different. The audio guys may be really busy, but i doubt the animators are slacking off half the time either. It's not like each episode has only 20 or 30 key frames and so on in it. |
Soheddie said: So a normal animator earns 13,000$ a year? That's pretty bad. Thats amazingly painful.. >.< |
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saka said: MiKu214 said: Being an animator sounds like working in a sweatshop. this is close to the truth I think this was the case by the animators of the last Minami-Ke series :P But I doubt J.C., I.G., etc. animators would earn so little... |
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| Wow, sucks to be an animator! |
Pyrrhus said: What would be even more painful was if you saw their hourly pay. Remember, Japan's minimum wage laws are for daily pay, not hourly. I'd be somewhat surprised if they were breaking $5/hour.Soheddie said: Thats amazingly painful.. >.<So a normal animator earns 13,000$ a year? That's pretty bad. |
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