Tindra's night fury and dracolotl lick GIF
commission pricing breakdown

Starting price: $35

None or subtractive deviations from the default night fury body plan, such as a reduction in dorsal spikes, fewer head appendages, or plain recolors.

Fluffy fury: +$5

Furies with smooth, but noticeable fur coverage.

Simply altered head appendage shape: +$5

Elongated, spikier, or an extra pair.

Medium head appendage alteration: +$5 per appendage

Ribbed, bumpy, spiky or damaged.
In such cases, each appendage requires a redraw of the base to accomplish your dragon's distinct appendage traits.

Severely altered head appendage shape: +$15

Axolotl-like gills, or appendages located in non-default attachment points require a custom redraw of the base in the entire area of the head.

Small facial feature additions: +$5

Fangs, brow spikes, antennae.

Big feature additions: +$5 per addition

Big ol' spikes.
In the case of mirrored features, each side is counted individually.

Neck shape alterations: +$10

Fluffy mane, fish fins, neck spikes, an inflated neck and otherwise changes to the default neck shape require a custom redraw in the area of the neck.

Shoulder features: +$10

Spikes, blades, bumps, plates, feathers, shaggy fur and otherwise changes to the shape of the shoulders requires a redraw of the base.

Small acessories: +$5 each

Collars, piercings, pins, appendage rings, flowers, etc.
Larger pieces, like clothing (scarf, headband) would have to be priced differently.

Gradients: +$5 per gradient color

Gradients are a challenge to keep consistent on a moving image.

Sparkly/glittery features: +$5 each

Full-body glitter is considered a single feature unit, but different parts glittering differently will be priced as separate feature units.

Eye and eyelid features: +$5 each

Scars, eyelashes, eyeshadow, severe eye damage, altered pupil shape, iris patterns, etc.

Complex facial patterns +$5 each

This refers to colouration features that are neither a stipe pattern nor a spot pattern, but rather a unique symmetrical feature of the face.
Depending on the layout, I'll group yours by either colour or location.

Stripe and spot patterns: +$5 per body part

Patterns like these require extreme attention to detail, so they're in their own price bracket.
Body parts in this category:
• Top of the head
• Snout and chin
• Tongue
• Belly
• Neck (Right side)
• Neck (Left side)
• Cheeks and temples (Right)
• Cheeks and temples (Left)
• Fin 1 (Right)
• Fin 1 (Left)
• Fin 2 (Right)
• Fin 2 (Left)
• Fin 3 (Right) (If exists)
• Fin 3 (Left) (If exists)
• Fin 4 (Right) (If exists)
• Fin 4 (Left) (If exists)

Colour features of minimum charge:

Head appendage tips:
If each and every one is tipped with a colour, it's +$5 for all of them together, or otherwise it's free.
In case of striped or spotted appendages, if the colour of the tips is the same as the pattern, the tips are counted as part of the stripe/spot pattern.
Any head appendages that are a different colour from the body:
It's an easy fix, so I don't see a reason to charge for it, unless it's a form of gradient.
Minor belly patterning:
If the secondary colour of your belly only barely peeks out from the bottom of the gif, I won't charge for it.
If there's a barely noticeable gradient on it, I won't charge for it either.

Features otherwise not listed:

All pricing will be discussed with you beforehand, so any unique features that do not fall into the aforementioned categories will be accounted for.
I tend towards slapping a +$5 charge on stuff that's unique enough and doesn't fall into a category, however in case of extreme features (ex.: sparkledog patterns) I reserve the right to name a high price that's proportional to the effort required to render them, or to decline.

Final prices are negotiable!

I'm more likely to round down the total amount than ask for extra pay, so don't worry if the price of render for your dragon is climbing a bit high.

Q: Why do features affect the price?

A: The gif is composed of 23 individual frames, all of which are drawn by hand for every dragon design. The use of bases helps to skip the render of major body features, but then everything on the skin has to be done by hand. Add to that fact that this fanbase is as colourful and as diverse as can be, so template-izing skin patterns becomes pretty much impossible.

• ▶️ Here's a speedpaint of the process

Full sized gifs (1000x1000): 1 with slobber, 1 without;

Sticker-sized gifs for Discord (320x320): 1 with slobber, 1 without;

Emoji-sized gifs for Discord (128x128): 1 with slobber, 1 without.

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