I suspect a little more was involved than just loading the dork figures and rendering. As it has been mentioned, a lot of stuff has to go into making this work in court. One of the biggies is accuracy if it is going to be used to help explain the forensic evidence being presented.

I would think that several folks were involved in the production and that it took more than a day to do. Say it took a week. 5 days at $3000 a day for 6 people working on this. That breaks down to $500 a day per head, or $62.5 an hour per man.

Now, my friend who runs the local computer repair shop gets $60 an hour to fix your computer, and he will not have to go to court and prove his work to the judge (err, we hope). I use to do protection work. $500 a day is middle to average in that biz, course you are expected to take the bullet if someone decides to shoot your client.

Now, my guess is that this animation probably took longer than a week to put together, so $1500.00 does not sound all that unreasonable to me.