Character animation, the most difficult and important part of the animation

@Maksim Baruskov the prices fluctuate, depending on what clients you get and market prices, more recently for a generic 3d animation for youtube the price seems to go down

@Maksim Baruskov I would suggest focusing on improving you character animation and camera movement. Try to avoid the clipping, and position the fingers accurately

Depends on the length, if you have multiple characters doing very specific actions, it's going to take quite some time to animate, which is normal. For me it usually takes 1 week to animate 30 seconds. You can check out Mixamo and reallusion mocap packs, that could save you some time. Also AI mocap solutions

Character Creator 5, is pretty good but it's quite expensive. Metahumans are free and really good quality directly in Unreal. For clothes I usually either generate the mesh with AI and texture manually, or marvelous designer sim

There are so many rules, 3% rule, 10000 hour rule, 30/10 rule. I would suggest doing what you enjoy without overthinking the rules