Hey guys, my name is CypherDen And well, I kind of got ripped off of 20 freaking thousand freakin dollars freaking. Do you understand how many burritos you could buy with that amount of money? if a good burrito is around eight dollars, including tax- Hold on. Let me get my calculator real quick cause you know, math and stuff... That's 2,500 burritos, like what! That's worth almost seven years of daily burritos! Wow, that actually makes me a little sad now. Mmm. Okay, so obviously I can't really talk about who this is, so we're gonna use some fake names and all that fun stuff. 'Cause ya girl ain't about to get sued after already getting ripped off of 20k Let's at least make a video about it, y'know? Anyways, after graduating college, I wasn't really able to get a job right away. Yep, that's right lived in my parents basement like a true college graduate. B-b-b-but, I was also working on my art portfolio because I really didn't have one in the first place. And, on the side I was kind of hardcore binge watching this one show about uhh...post-it notes? Good enough. And I kind of really really really liked this one actress! We'll call her...Susan because I can't really think of a better name. So, I decided to draw fan-art as I always do when I obsess over a show or, anything really. I posted it up online and couple days later, I woke up from one of my many naps and they saw that Susan - the one the only Susan, liked my drawing. My brain was just cartwheeling off the moon. I'm like, 'how's that even possible?' So, you know, I go to check my DMs and Susan - FREAKING - Susan was in my DMs. Sliding in my DMs like, 'Whaaatt?! What is even happened here?!' Am I still dreaming? Yeah, maybe! How does this even then? Okay. Okay a famous uh-oh Hello? Did you-did you message the right person? 'Hey Den! Loved your fan-art. I saw your Pewdiepie animation too! Bro fist! Any chance I could commission you for an animation?' Hahah! Just had a heart attack--my bad. Um, yeah sure. Of course. I dunno why is this even a question? Hahah, yeah, you still sure you got the right person? 'Awesome! My manager will contact you to details looking forward to working with you!' So, after weeks - not days to even months - of not hearing anything from said manager, I finally got a message to negotiate the price and details of said animation. A three-minute animation - fully colored, with fully designed characters, fully lip-synced, with FULLY animated characters with background - due in two weeks. But, to help me out they provided the music that I'll need to animate to. That's pretty much it. Um, okay. I don't know if you guys know how long animations take, but anything fully animated does NOT - I repeat - DOES NOT take two weeks for one singular person to animate! A second of animation has 30-60 second frames. Frames, or multiple pictures or drawings put together to trick your BEAUTIFUL eyeballs to thinking that those drawings are moving. Drawings that are put together to make it look like I'm flying on a cloud. A single background can take me between 30 minutes to even a hour depending on how difficult it is. Susan and her manager wouldn't budge when it came to the deadline, so I kind of had to such it up against every sort and bit of logic. I told myself, not everyone gets an opportunity like this. When is this ever gonna happen again? Only a madman would take this job. So, I accepted the offer and the moment that I did, they handed me a contract. This was my very first contract that I've ever had to sign for a commission And your girl is like, 'oh my damn. This is hella professional aiight!"' Sign here, here here. You want my life sure, why not. My firstborn child, kid go for it. One of my burritos? Okay, this looks a little fishy, but sure let's get started! Contracts are very very scary. They lock you in and they're not really protecting you but the other person making you sign the contract. The contract actually said by signing this contract this animation is 100% owned by Susan. I can't use the animation to make money off of it, can't post it on YouTube, clip it or ANYTHING at all. I have NO claim or rights or anything with this animation that I made which is kind of weird. But alright, it made sense and last but not least, This is a part that actually makes me want to go back in time - not to fix this whole event or anything like that, But to just straight-up slap my past self back to oblivion. Like, how are you this dumb younger Den? I kind of um, jeez I hate myself for this. But, I did two weeks of non-stop work day and night and maybe some naps in between just to animate this abomination. More than 200 plus hours of straight animating for 200 bucks. With a promise of sweet, sweet, exposure! I'd love to blame the other person in this scenario because I'm still a little salty about it, but in all honesty, I was also really really really obnoxiously dumb and naive to believe that a person I looked up to would, automatically be a good person that's not the case. There are some scumbags out there. I legit worked $1 an hour! I was so dumb! Don't get me wrong, working was them is fine and okay, but they also asked me to completely rip off another animators art style, to the point that you can't even recognize that I worked on it at all! So, why not just hire that animator? Oh wait- They probably weren't dumb as I am! So, they called me almost every day to check up and correct everything I was doing, which I understand. That's how commission's work. But it was a daily fix this, change this, add this, take this out, and I repeat. This was a two-week deadline for $200! The matter of stress was just *mbjuuh* for 200 bucks and the tiny little mention of my name, which doesn't even really exist anymore. 'But Den, how did you get ripped off of $20,000?' My dude, do you understand how much money these people made out of that one singular animation? How many shirts sold? Yeah, way over 20 freakin thousand dollars. I could tell you that much! But, they knew how much this video is gonna make because they've done this other people too! Not just me! In that contract in that contract made it so I can't renegotiate the price at all. Also, that exposure it didn't even make a dent in any of my social media accounts because nothing happened! No one to this day knows I worked on that animation, because it was just that bad of an exposure. So yeah, That's how I got ripped off of 20k and possibly even more. I'm pretty sure they're still making money out of this one animation 'til this very day. And, I can't do anything about it! So, what have we learned? Never ever work for exposure, and I wish someone told me that three-minute animations are not worth 200 bucks. Unless you know, Post Malone if you want to hit me up, I'll animate you a whole music video for free! -Nononononononope, stop this not again. I mean, anyways, if you guys enjoyed that video, don't forget to hit that like button. It makes me fart glitter! Hit that notification bell too? Maybe. Please! And with that said, I'll see you guys later and don't get ripped off. Bye!
So I tried to look through somewhere else den posted art since she probably deleted the fanart off of instagram. So I looked at her tumblr page and wrote down some stuff- this information probably won't help but I still wanted to give it a shot anyway. Feel free to contradict my info if u think im wrong about something
Information: Fanart posted likely in Dec 2014 because that is when the first known pewdiepie animation appeared
“saw the new pewdiepie animation!” mentioned in the video
Looking through the tumblr archive since den likely deleted the post off of her instagram: http://cypherden.tumblr.com/archive
I originally thought that this post made on December 21st 2014 was about the animation we are looking for:
http://cypherden.tumblr.com/post/105753385554/hello-how-was-your-day-today
“less than a week to animate a thing”
- This could be the animation she is referring to since her due date was 2 weeks to create it and she is very ambiguous with what she is animating
- BUT, I realized since Den said the manager took a while to get back to her (months) that means that this post couldn’t be referring to that animation since the oldest pewdiepie animation found was about December 2014 (unless someone can find one that has an earlier date)
I couldn’t find the fanart mentioned in the video on her tumblr so she may have deleted it but here are the links to posts made in 2014 or 2015 that I could find there that I think may be good candidates for the fanart.
However, the art is more likely to have been posted in Dec 2014 or early 2015 (close to the date of when another pewdiepie animation had been released)
http://cypherden.tumblr.com/post/115605772369/sketchbook-sunday-is-baaack-process-can-be
The person in this drawing is Masie Williams
http://cypherden.tumblr.com/post/105218318174/felt-like-the-2014-summary-of-art-was-such-an-opt (summary of art for the whole year)
http://cypherden.tumblr.com/post/104740604299/2013-vs-2014-i-question-my-improvements (a 2013 and 2014 summary too)
Other information to note:
- It is likely that the animation we are looking for is 2d since ‘Susan’ mentioned the pewdiepie animation and likely would have commissioned a 2d animation after seeing it. But Cypherden can also make 3d animation (as she made something for her thesis which I think was a school project)
http://cypherden.tumblr.com/post/80370916038/meow-thesis-update
- Den was also interested in game of thrones and posted lots of fanart for it so the fanart we are looking for could be related to this tv series BUT it doesn’t match the style of drawing that den did for susan in the video.
-- Sorry if this isn't too helpful ^^'
Also I don't think den posted much on her tumblr during 2015 so she might not have even posted the fanart there
LEL
Cyberden??? Seriously?