Hi all. I'm not sure if this is the right place for this question, but I'll shoot anyway.
Say I've got an action RPG about to exit drawing-board phase and though I can make music I can't draw for shit, so I'm going to phone in the art like Undertale did. These are probably bullshit metrics, but let's say we have 30 NPC designs, 200 enemy and character designs (enemies will need the same amount of sprites as characters so I'm lumping them together in this metric), 30 tilesets, 200-ish full-color non-sprite character portraits/expressions, and like 50 full screen, full color, non-sprite art pieces that show up at plot-heavy points and set the mood and show things that would be hard to show with sprites (I believe visual novels have a specific term for this) as well as any other art expenses I'm forgetting.
It's a 2D isometric game that benefits greatly from use of an analog joystick, so we'll say that's 8 directions you can face to draw. You can face 36 or however many it is, but we won't draw that many sprites. It's not tunnel based like Head Over Heels and those kinds of games, hence more tilesets. You can jump, you have a jumping attack, you can dash/sidestep, you can block, you can attack, we'll say there's about 40 magic spells scattered across characters, and I want idle animations. There's also obviously different walkspeeds, we'll say three worth drawing. So I think that's all the animations I'd need.
How much should I expect to pay? How much in addition would it cost if I wanted the character portraits to be animated? If I'm forgetting something vital I'll try to supply it. Thanks.