On his profile it says Matthew is a programmer, not a 3D artist. Anyone willing to program for five dollars an hour in a “developed country” will probably not be doing a very good job because otherwise they would have been working at a company willing to pay much more. I don’t know about standard rates for 3D artists, but for programmers I would say it is on the high side but not outrageous. Sure, you can find programmers that have a lower hourly rate but in the end you will just end up spending more to compensate for the lack of quality. Or, as Dijkstra put it: