This year I’ve been working with a couple friends on an animation project. It will be released free online as a series of shorts. It’s dialog-oriented, with the art supporting the voice acting in economical ways. The closest thing to compare it to is Dr. Katz.

We’re looking for someone to help with part of the art production, so I can move into a more direction/planning/supervisory role, and we can crank out a 4-minute episode every other week. I will be doing storyboards, painting the backgrounds, and drawing some guide character poses, and you will be drawing many of the characters, and arranging assets on the timeline.

Drawing: As you can see, the style of the characters is not elaborate, but please be able to imitate this look, and have a good sense of humor and comic timing. The characters switch from pose to pose, so you don’t need to be an expert at animating fluid, lifelike motion. It’s more important to be able to listen to some dialog and come up with a pose or gesture, often something simple and understated, that makes it a little more real. Like I said, I’ll be doing the backgrounds.

Timeline: Are you familiar with layers, keyframes, tweening, and stuff like that? Under my jealous and domineering supervision, you will be tasked with combining all the assets in Toon Boom Animate (if you have experience with Flash, it’s broadly similar to that).

Big points if you’re in the San Francisco Bay Area, like me! That way we can meet up in person. Smaller points if you’re in Seattle or Kirkland, WA (where Jeff and Casey are).

It’s a paid position. More info available over e-mail.

Please send us a link to your portfolio: jobs “at” jeffandcaseytime.com. Or attach a couple reasonably-sized graphics.