This is a sad story of how I just spent hours making a neat proposal for a company specifying in various cases that the design of the elements for the animation is not included in the price and with a whole slide talking about a huge discount I was giving for these designs.

I separate the prices because they can have the option to get their own designer, because I outsource anyways. I’m not a designer myself, just animator.

And this human being replies: alright! Let’s do this! Send me a formal estimate.

So I do. And I include the slides.

5 minutes later I receive another message asking for an explanation for these design charges and I was like WHAT THE FU..! Didn’t you read the proposal bro?

But I just replied: “Oh I’m so sorry for the confusion, it’s actually all in the proposal” and proceeded to send screenshots.

The human being hadn’t even read it all. Kills me.

But what gives me the killing blow is that this human being reduced my contract by two thirds. I was rich, now I’m poor again. Kinda.

I know it could’ve been worst and that he could’ve backed out completely. But it’s still a sad story.