SECOND NATURE - Round 2 casting
Project Overview
SECOND NATURE
This project is being created as an independent animated series by artists who believe character comes before spectacle.
We're looking to build a small, passionate team of animators, concept artists, environment artists, storyboard artists, composers, sound designers, writers, and indie animation collaborators who want to help create something lasting.
We're not trying to imitate a major studio.
We're trying to tell a story that feels honest.
One where silence matters.
Where every ending leaves something worth finding.
Where every location tells a story.
Where survival was Rook's first instinct... but living slowly becomes, his second nature.
(CUE - what I've done by Lincon Park)
Series Synopsis
Second Nature is an animated science-fiction adventure about what comes after the apocalypse.
Long after civilization disappeared, reality itself has begun to unravel. Forests peel away into forgotten cities. Mountains become oceans overnight. Entire landscapes rewrite themselves without warning, leaving behind only impossible scars stitched together by mysterious black threads.
For Rook, adapting wasn't a choice.
It became... second nature.
Rook stopped believing anyone else was alive years ago. Every day is the same: move forward, stay quiet, never stay in one place for long.
His only companion is PIP—a cheerful public-assistance AI projected from an old watch that once belonged to Rook's grandfather. Built to help travelers in a world that no longer exists, PIP approaches every danger with relentless optimism, awkward logic, and an endless desire to understand people.
Together they survive a world that refuses to stay the same.
Until they find someone else.
Every change begins to challenge the routines that have kept Rook alive for years. Survival becomes more dangerous than the creatures hunting them. Hope becomes harder to ignore than fear.
Meanwhile, scattered radio transmissions hint that humanity may not be as extinct as he believes.
Blending grounded character writing with cinematic action, mystery, quiet humor, and breathtaking environmental storytelling, Second Nature explores what happens when survival is no longer enough—and Rook has to remember how to live again.
Artist
As a Clean Up Artist, your role will be to:
Refine Rough Animation
Trace or redraw rough draft frames to create SMOOTH dynamic visuals
Maintain consistency to ensure characters remain "on model" across every frame, expression or angle
Prepare for color
create pose guides with the art director to produce expression sheets, and turn around charts
Please submit your CLEAN UP animatic examples OR CLEAN UP before and after animation sequences below with a brief intro and your favorite type of ice cream!
*Say something you think would fit*
Artist
As a background concept artist, your role will be to:
design initial settings and locations
transform written brief into concrete visual
establish mood with architecture, scale, lighting
build a concept color pallet to establish feel
produce rapid sketches of multiple variations of locations
adjusting per given direction by Director OR Art Director
Please submit your concept background arts below with a brief intro and your favorite comfort song!
- 2d artist
- 2d/3d artwork
- animatic artist
- digital artist
*Say something you think would fit*
Animator
As an Animator, your role will be to:
Create Visual Development
Translate Storyboard art AND scripts into 2d/3d animated sequences
BRING PERSONALITIES TO LIFE! Using Pre-Lay Voice Acting of course.
Establish timing , pacing, and realistic physical or emotional movements in characters AND !background art!
Collab with other animators and artists.
Have the ability to adjust via direction given by Director OR Visual Art Director
clean up revisions, and refine animated sequences based on feedback from directors to meet deadlines
Please submit your animatic examples OR concept animation sequences below with a brief intro and your favorite comfort food!
- 2d art
- 2d animation
- animatic
- cartoon animation
- animation
- character animation
- 2d/3d artwork
- blockbench modeler/animator
*Say something you think would fit*
Agent
As we get close to finishing the animatic for the proof of concept we will need to build a fan base wink wink nudge nudge
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