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NinjaCatCaitlin wrote: 73.Anon.52 wrote: Phantomlink959 wrote: 200/7=28.57

about 30 dollars per episode

only a handful of spoken lines, so that seems about right for an amateur voice actor. agreed, tbh it sounded like he was pissed he didn't get paid via a different method rather than how he was paid... like Royalties or hourly. I mean, I have no great beef with JJ, but who does he think he is, Vic Mignogna?? JJ's VA experience consists solely of Mercury and "male passerby" from X-Ray and Vav. What makes him think he's entitled to so much money for doing something he had virtually no credentials for?

And more to the point what does he think RWBY is? Yeah, its a pretty concise production but this isn't KyoAni. This ain't no Disney content.

Like I said... it looks to me as though this was an issue of second guessing his choices... he could have asked for royalties, but he just as easily could have been burned by that(as the actors from Star Wars were) he could have chosen something more hourly or a full series/full season/preplanned or negotiable salary...

Sure $200 seems fair for an un-trained actor working with starving artists on a spur of the moment gig, but in Retrospect after V2 I'm sure anyone in his position could end up doing a double take and say "Hey this show is highly successful, we're a decently sized company, why wasn't my cut higher?" Sure most people could look at this and think his friends the higher ups could just say "You're right, my bad, lets pay you more", but you need to think about where they were at that point.

Between increasing the size of the workforce and hiring more experienced, higher paid VA's, they couldn't necessarily be expected to afford to go through previous contracts and re-evaluate them, assuming that it is even legal to re-evaluate them due to the USA's complex labor and Industries laws designed to protect the employee.