Final Major Project Theoretical Costings

The Work Log

Since we started our work for Multi-Story Water, every member of the team has been filling out a shared work log. For this work log, each one of us has entered each day what they have done and how long they have worked for. Just above you can see a screenshot showing a week in March, it shows what each person did on their days in college, what extra work they did at home and how many hours they worked in total.

Using this work log we can calculate how many hours we have worked over the course of the project and work out an estimate for how much we would be payed if it were a payed contract.

Total Hours Worked

Overall we spent thirteen and a half hours in college every single week and the project spanned 17 weeks in total. So taking that into consideration we will have at least worked for just under 230 hours. Then taking into account the amount of work at home done we will have done a lot more. The amount of work being done at home seemed to be quite low at first, then as the project continued the amount of work being done steadily increased as what was required to meet deadlines became more and more apparent. Each person in the team did a very similar amount of work at home, which on average was around 6 hours a week per person, which over the entire project would have come to 102 hours. So adding the two together comes to around 330 hours.

Wages

After doing a bit of research into the wages of a 3D artist I have found there can be a massive difference between the highest and lowest wages. This is mostly due to the amount of experience the artist has, with an artist with less than three years experience earning far less than someone who has 20+ years of experience. As most of us have less than 2 years experience in 3D art, we would in theory have been payed a wage somewhere in the lower end, therefore I have chosen £13 an hour for the purpose of the calculations, which is around the wage of a 3D artist with less than 3 years experience.

The Result

In the end if we were each being paid £13 an hour and we all worked 330 hours over this entire project we would have each been paid £4290. I myself am really shocked about how much this is, although, we have spent almost a year on this project and have created a massive amount of content between us.