This doesn't help much at
this point since this is after the fact... but just reiterates the importance of spelling out clearly in advance to you client what they can and cannot have.
Similarly, just yesterday we had a client request some raw footage from a project we had shot for them. Upon pointing out that under the terms of their contract they were not entitled to it (at least not for free), they were fine with it.
As for the After Effects project... maybe that's the way more and more of these jobs are working. We usually do everything here in house ourselves, but recently due to workload constraints we did sub out an AE project to a very talented young guy in Chicago (whom we met right here on the COW, by the way). When he delivered the finished pieces of animation, he also provided us with all of the elements as well as the After Effects projects themselves (which we didn't even ask for). I sort of gathered from him that was the normal M.O. for the big clients he is used to working for. Maybe that's more the norm these days, who knows?
T2
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Todd Terry
Creative Director
Fantastic Plastic Entertainment, Inc.
fantasticplastic.com
