Members Needed for Kawaii Kreations, Ltd.

Here's where you apply to be a storyboard director. A storyboard director is in charge of making thumbnails for the storyboards and make the rough draft of the storyboards. A storyboard is kind of like a comic book or a graphic novel, only a lot more in-depth and instructive on what's going on. Storyboard art is not entirely detailed, though it's very detailed with the descriptions like dialogue, actions, effects, calls for stock footage, SFX, etc. Before you apply, I would like to lend in some animation vocabulary.

S/A stands for same as. Since we would use this template (https://live.staticflickr.com/7074/7089028419_3e7ee2e146_b.jpg) to work with, if you wanna hold use the same pose as the previous panel, just make a rough silhouette of the things you wanna keep the same pose, and write S/A in it. It would be helpful to the animators on the long run.

DX stands for double exposure. It's an old school term that dates back to when animation was done with cels. Though nowadays it means to adjust the transparency.

Backlit (or backlit glow) means to add a glow effect to it. Very useful for something you want to glow and whatnot.

Trucking means to zoom in or out depending on the context. Sometimes you can get creative with it for POV shots or whatever.

Panning means to slide up, down, left, right, or diagonally depending on the situation. A pan doesn't have to be from a background or camera, it can also be from an object or a character.

Multiplane (or Parallax) is a special kind of truck or pan to make things more realistic. For example at the beginning of Help Wanted, the pilot for SpongeBob, the coral pans horizontally as the camera trucks in to Bikini Bottom.

(kinds of brushes) - There's so many brushes to use in animation. The more common ones being airbrushes and soft brushes. There's also plenty of other brushes to use too.

Sometimes as a storyboard director, you would call for some stock footage (like backgrounds, effects, etc.) for the editors, CGI for the 3D Animation Department, and so much more. You have plenty of artistic freedom here. Even I'm a storyboard director.

Here's where you apply to be a storyboard artist. Storyboard artists take the thumbnails and rough storyboard draft from the storyboard director, and refine it into a polished storyboard with a little more details than the thumbnails. We will be using this template to work with. https://live.staticflickr.com/7074/7089028419_3e7ee2e146_b.jpg Before you audition, please refer to the description for the storyboard director role for some essential animation terms.

Here's where you audition to be a track reader. A track reader listens to the dialogue and writes it out how it would sound phonetically on a timesheet. A timesheet serves as a way to tell the animators what happens and where. I made a time sheet template here. https://drive.google.com/file/d/1-l4wKGXT9X6gYAI7kfOuAN7_1CwxDc2f/view?usp=sharing

Here's where you audition to be an animation director. Animation directors are either the director in charge of all aspects of the animation process during the production of an animated film or television, and animated segment for a live action film or television show, or the animator in charge of correcting layouts and drawings. The difference between the two is largely the difference between the western and eastern animation industries. Their main job is to time how long every single action takes to happen on a timesheet. I have a timesheet template here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1-l4wKGXT9X6gYAI7kfOuAN7_1CwxDc2f/view?usp=sharing

Please refer to the storyboard director role for a list of essential animation terms and some sheet timing terms (http://www.milowerx.com/portfolio/exposure-sheets/, https://archive.org/details/notes-for-timers/page/n25/mode/2up). Here's an example of a Timesheet from Summer Camp Island and Flavio. http://www.milowerx.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/Summer-Camp-016_SadBirthdayBathrobe.pdf http://www.milowerx.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/NICK-Flavio-sheets.pdf

Here's where you audition to be a character designer. Character designers visualise and create the look of individual characters (typically ones you haven't seen in a cartoon by this team). They work from descriptions given to them by the director. These might include notes on a character's personality as well as physical traits. Character designers take inspiration from the script and concept art to design characters.

Here's where you apply to be a prop designer. Working from descriptions given by the art director and by reviewing scripts and animatics, you'll be creating props that fit the particular style of animation for the show. Complete all rough, revised and final designs necessary within assigned deadlines. Resolve design problems with creative supervisors.

Here's where you audition to be a background painter. A background artist, also called a background painter or a background stylist, helps create the backgrounds for various projects. They're responsible for establishing the particular color palette, mood or style of a particular scene.

Here's where you apply to be a layout artist. In traditional 2D hand-drawn animation, layout artists define the perspective of the animation frames by drawing the backgrounds. The relative size of the objects in the background of a flat image, as compared to the action in the foreground, influences how viewers perceive the scene. For essential animation terms, please refer to the storyboard director role and here (.https://archive.org/details/notes-for-timers/page/n25/mode/2up) And here's an extra animation term:

Match lines are what layout artists use to make things over and behind at the same time.

Here's the template we would be using: https://drive.google.com/file/d/17Ggh0ZSBZWDDgb9tFWhua2XeXWE3wpJ-/view

Also, there's a thing that layout artists, and clean up artists use called color separation lines. They're actually a helpful reminder to the animators that there's shadows, colored outlines, lineless things, highlights, and many more.

Here's where you apply to be a color key supervisor. A color key supervisor color the character designs and layout so the animators know what to color.

Here's where you apply to be a clean up and color artist. Clean Up and Color artists clean up and color the animations based on the color models from the color key supervisor. Here's some things I wanna point out:

Since we're going for Japanese methods of compositing, it's gonna be a little different than what you're used to. Make sure to use aliased lines so I can smooth it later on in the compositing. Make sure you don't use alpha channels so I can get rid of the background while I do the compositing, and make sure you don't use pure white on the characters or props during the coloring, so I can key out just the background and not the others.

Here's where you apply to be an animator. An animator produces multiple images called frames, which when sequenced together create an illusion of movement - this is known as animation. The images can be made up of digital or hand-drawn pictures, models or puppets. Animators tend to work in 2D, 3D model-making, stop-frame or computer-generated animation. For the brush effects, you can use something like Photoshop or Clip Studio Paint since they have animation features and lots of creative brushes.

Here's where you audition to be a 3D Animator. Sometimes a scene would call for 3D Animation, and the 3D Animator would bring it to life in a 3D perspective. An animator produces multiple images called frames, which when sequenced together create an illusion of movement - this is known as animation. The images can be made up of digital or hand-drawn pictures, models or puppets. Animators tend to work in 2D, 3D model-making, stop-frame or computer-generated animation.