First post on these forums, hopefully someone around here can point me in the right direction and help clear some things up for me.
I am producing an pilot for an animated webseries which, if all goes well should be out and about by late summer. While I have been able to purchase all the equipment needed from pre, post and everything in between the one aspect I cannot check off quite yet is voice actors. I would like to have people who are known to be professional, trained, and versed in doing their job, problem with that is it means I would more likely than not have to 'go union;. I've poured through the animation agreements of AFTRA and its Canadian counterpart ACTRA (Specifically UBCP) and have been disheartened to learn that their rates for a single session of animation is well out of budget for me. $800 for a single 4 hour session not even counting residuals and other lovely fees.
Add all the horror stories I have read about how they essentially own your project till the day you die and then some and it makes me very leery. Working the minimum wage daytime job and only having a savings of about $500, there is no real way I could even begin to work with these people without taking out a loan which I don't want to do.
I am curious if anyone has dealt with this or can clarify the points above and/or correct some assumptions I have.
Thanks in advance
I am producing an pilot for an animated webseries which, if all goes well should be out and about by late summer. While I have been able to purchase all the equipment needed from pre, post and everything in between the one aspect I cannot check off quite yet is voice actors. I would like to have people who are known to be professional, trained, and versed in doing their job, problem with that is it means I would more likely than not have to 'go union;. I've poured through the animation agreements of AFTRA and its Canadian counterpart ACTRA (Specifically UBCP) and have been disheartened to learn that their rates for a single session of animation is well out of budget for me. $800 for a single 4 hour session not even counting residuals and other lovely fees.
Add all the horror stories I have read about how they essentially own your project till the day you die and then some and it makes me very leery. Working the minimum wage daytime job and only having a savings of about $500, there is no real way I could even begin to work with these people without taking out a loan which I don't want to do.
I am curious if anyone has dealt with this or can clarify the points above and/or correct some assumptions I have.
Thanks in advance