Hi, can help you with. You said, you have your character, give me your character vector file and you have 5 second animation.. Also on each project can be different budget, but if you want to create series of animation, then even if not working with me, recommend you to create character development (completely RIG the character, make emos, and then only create animation) - this will save a lot of time later when doing complete story.
If you are interested, i can send you few examples, or give me eps or vector file and get your 5sec test ;-)
Sincerely,
Ray
@Spotmouse
basicly 5 minit animation cost feom 1900$ to 5000$ - depending on shots, storyboard, difficult.
My project WIP for ex. later to render the whole animation of 5 min. takes 10hours. (in after effects) so in time, you should know, that to fix something later will be needed lot of time, so better to make it at the early stages.