Costs making a 2D animation

I've been asked to make a professional 2D animated video.
The question is: how can I find out what I can charge?
This is an example my client has send: http://www.talmon.nl/#!portfolio-item/reggefiber/
It's not so hard to produce in After Effects. But I find it hard to estimate how long it would take to finalize it.
And what is the most common workflow in such a production? First a storyboard, second graphics and so on?
I'm asked to make:
1. a price in which they make a storyboard, where I make the artwork and final animated video.
2. a price in which they make the storyboard plus artwork, and I just the 2D animation.
What is the way to solve this?

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The Cloud forum is about the Cloud as a delivery & install process
If you will start at the Forums Index https://forums.adobe.com/welcome
You will be able to select a forum for the specific Adobe product(s) you use
Click the "down arrow" symbol on the right (where it says All communities) to open the drop down list and scroll

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Nice and simple, thanks very much
Gaz
On 5/9/07 12:29 am, in article
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>> Hi all
>> Could someone tell me how to make a animation placed
into Dreamweaver
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>> to link anything in. Is it a parameter that I need
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> or simple apply onMouseDown event to the timeline which
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