2D Animator Wanted - Devils Angels & Dating

[michaelcawood]

I'm an ex 2D animator, having turned towards the darkside many years ago and gone CG. Now I'm directing a CG Short Film called 'Devils Angels & Dating' with a large team of volunteers. It's actually a Musical! But I'm looking for a really good 2D Traditional animator to animate one of our opening shots, as I simply don't have time on top of all my other duties on the film. We don't necessarily need the task to be done now, so we have the luxury of waiting for the perfect candidate, but we can be ready to go when that person comes along.



This is the scene that needs animating:
http://devilsangelsanddating.ning.co...d-shadow-devil
It's in silhouette and this is the character design.

We're also looking for talent in lots of other areas of development including:
Texture Artists
Sound Designers
Character Riggers

Check out our Jobs page or if you're just curious you can follow the main feed at DevilsAngelsAndDating.com. Alternatively become our fan on Facebook or MySpace.

[boyblue80]

Hi there,

I am a freelance 2D animator and illustrator currently looking for work. I saw that you have posted an advert for a skilled 2D animator to animate a shadow demon being dragged down to hell. I would like to give it a shot! I have previously animated for Nike , numerous music videos, London Fashion Week 2008 and an independant Hollywood movie called Kabluey.

If you would like to see some examples of my animations you can goto my youtube page and have a look. www.youtube.com/user/boyblue80

I hope you like what you see there, and that we can work together on this project of yours in the near future.

Kindest Regards,


Richard Warwick

[michaelcawood]

You should come on over to the website and sign up... sorry I didn't see your post earlier, I don't think I got an email about it. But we're always looking for talent.
Jobs/tasks

[michaelcawood]

Episode 4 of the podcast is online now. In this one I talk to, team member, Iskander Mellakh and then go over a quick Filmography of my work before a status update of our short animated film ‘Devils Angels and Dating’.

Blog Entry

Direct

[michaelcawood]

We've had an exciting year with most of the asset creation out of the way we're currently in the early stages of animation, debugging rigs and looking for any other issues that we might trip us up going forward. I'm currently planning to roll out Animation on a larger scale early in 2010, so that we can have our 30 second teaser trailer ready in the first few months. I'm going to start working on a poster which should also be a good test case to get a 'close to final' look for our characters.

While Devil and Death are having some more advanced functionality added to their rigs, Cupid is nearing an animation ready state. Devil and Death are already being animated in their first shots with only a few challenges, that our team members have gallantly concurred.

We've had some support from Keith Lango, and Digicel's Flipbook which has been a nice touch. We have over 240 videos and 540 images to look through, with over 140 members on the website. All very exciting but I just want to say a huge thank you to our regulars who have made the project what it is today. Have a wonderful holiday period.

In the mean time here's a few recent highlights:
Render tests:
http://devilsangelsanddating.ning.co...20dvltesting-2
Holograms and Peeps:
http://devilsangelsanddating.ning.co...eetlovev01ms-1
Animation in progress:
http://devilsangelsanddating.ning.co...espliningv00-2
Colour Script in progress:
http://devilsangelsanddating.ning.co...context=latest
Animatic:
http://devilsangelsanddating.ning.co...o/animatic-v35

Don't forget you can follow our progress on Facebook:
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Devils...g/124683406303
And you can subscribe to most of our videos on YouTube as well:
http://www.youtube.com/user/michaelcawood

Merry Christmas!

[michaelcawood]

Here's our plan for the teaser trailer. Thanks to Stoyan for the Music.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B0YnvkwRNH8

Here's our new Video intro that tells you almost everything you need to know about the project to get you started:
http://devilsangelsanddating.ning.co...2810:Page:1232

[michaelcawood]

Here's a set of Dailies for the 31st January 2010
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NmEBMIDQcWI
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3n9OrdxBXRo
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oxyQZnPvgzg
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QPiUsLotN2A
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kjd1LStBy4g
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HQnVZHAltBY

[michaelcawood]

Well what a month! We've been building up steam with the animation and I've been busy setting up shots for lots of new animators. We're actually at 25 active animators assigned to shots right now, but I've been trying to grow the team slowly in order to avoid over extending myself and neglecting anyone that's actually working on a task.

We're on the look out for a great 2D animator for one of our opening shots if anyone is interested.

There was a new edit a week ago:
http://devilsangelsanddating.ning.co...o/animatic-v43

I'm twittering the highlights of our progress and various other related musings here:
https://twitter.com/michaelcawood

I posted up our entry on IndieGoGo which is a fund raising website for Indie Filmmakers. We might not raise any funds but it's still a good site to have a presence on.
http://www.indiegogo.com/DevilsAngelsAndDating

It's really exciting to see the project progressing so well, thanks for the support everyone!

[Terro]

Very nice progress. I really like the character design you have going on.

[tyokio]

This looks like a very interesting project! I'm interested in lending a hand in some of the 2D animation, here's my website http://www.willw.co.uk which has my reel on the bottom of the page. let me know if your interested.

[michaelcawood]

Thanks guys... just a quick note. If you are interested but you don't sign up on the website you may not hear from me. I'm managing a very large community of artists and some messages off the main website can slip through the gaps.

We, however, are looking for a strong 2D animator and a colour script painter as well.

[ranfart]

I'm very interesting please let me know how i must doing

[michaelcawood]

Just a quick update. We're in pretty good shape for animation with over 20% in the can.

We're on the lookout for strong animators to join the team. Check out the Animator's Handbook for a guide to what you need, and come prepared with some idea of what types of shots you'd like.
http://devilsangelsanddating.ning.co...ators-handbook

Shane Davis has recently started as a Production Coordinator. He'll be helping me to sort through the progress of all the tasks and keeping everything moving forward.

If you're interested in doing any shader or rigging work please get in touch as we've got a couple of assets to finish off and any help would be greatly appreciated. We have some colour script images done, as you can see by the edit, but if anyone else would like to lend a hand and do some I'd really love to get some more done to flesh out the timeline.

I'd just like to say the team is doing amazing things and it's incredible to see it coming together like this. I think we're well on track for completing the teaser trailer animation in the next few months and the rest of the film by early 2011, if not sooner.

[george.mikal]

thanks for sharing link here