I want to apply for the job. Now first off - you do realise that Rise of the Guardians cost $62,285 per frame, don't you? But don't worry, I can get you the same quality per frame at a budget you can afford. It's simple: I make something of the same quality, but just a lot smaller.
If you do the maths, a budget of $4000 divided by 4320 frames (for you I give a discount, I'll call it 4000 frames) comes out to a dollar per frame. Now I'm assuming that the master to RotG was 4096 pixels × 2160 digital cinema print which means 8847360 pixels per frame. So $1 gets you 8847360 / 62285 = 142 pixels, and again I'll give you a discount and round it up to a 12 x12 pixel square.
You can't get fairer than that. Real Dreamworks quality at a price you can afford!
Here's a sample of what you could expect for your budget (and just to sweeten the deal for you I'll throw in sound recording, music and mixing for nothing, just because I really want to work with a visionary like you).
Note that the web player does stretch it out to fit in their frame, and compress it. The version you get will have full 12x12px resolution uncompressed 10-bit video and will be crystal clear and sharp.
Since you won't be storyboarding it we can get moving straight away. You won't want to see any character design, art direction or animation tests etc, that's all just a waste of time. I can see you're a busy man, so I'll just do the whole thing, render it, and have it ready to go, without all that to-and fro that gets in the way and drives up costs. Once you pay I'll send you a link to where you can download the whole completed thing, ready to go. It saves you the worry and makes life simpler for me. I can get moving on this at any time, and can have it done in a week, tops. Just paypal me the money and I'll send you a link. Of course you can trust me, I trust you don't I?
-stib
When our producers start getting unreasonable, we've starting saying 'we can do it, but it will be 12 pixels square…'
-Chris
