The wide variance in price is attributed to the country and platform where the video is viewed. According to YouTube, they had 30, partners inup from 20, in Using shodts numbers above, I decided to figure out what some of the most successful animators on YouTube are making. Considering how difficult it is to make money with animated shorts, the numbers are fairly impressive, especially if viewed as a single revenue stream as part of a larger plan that includes broadcast sales to foreign TV channels, merchandising, dvd sales, digital downloads, and so forth. Another important point to froom is that all of these animators have dozens of films posted on their channel. There shrts no examples yet of people earning this kind of money from just a handful of films. PES