Animator/s wanted

[jamesaphone]

I'm in the NY area trying to find an animator for a music project. Since I don't know where to begin or the first thing about animation I think I want a illustrator animator, but I think flash may work. The project is a musical body of work with animation projected on a big screen behind the musical ensemble. around 45 minutes of animation at least. I'm looking for the anime to be in the style of 80's cartoon/french/japan anime style. here is a link of an example

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=duoGAfXBUxM&search=mysterious%20gold%2001

thanks!

james
jamesaphone@yahoo.com

[Ken Davis]

James--

If you are looking for a single animator to do 45 minutes of animation, in that stated style--and I'd guess probably involving multiple characters--you are looking at that person working on this project for AT LEAST a couple of years full-time. And by full-time, I mean to the exclusion of any other activity that could produce income.

Actually, some calculations show me that 45 minutes of animation adds up to 64,800 frames ( assuming the frame rate is 24fr/sec) or about 4050 feet of film.
Given that a sane/sensible footage rate for an animator is about 10 feet a week--again, assuming more than one character in a scene more than 50% of the time and that the animation will likely have to cue to a musical beat--and you have a time-line of about EIGHT years to complete the work.
If the animator is some hotshot talent, maybe chop that in half.

That's for one person.

[skinnylizard]

45 mins in Flash with decent prep time could be had much sooner. But def not by one person. forget it.

[RRRivero]

So what's your actual deadline?

[ablaye]

This is a lot of work for one person. I am willing to work on this if you found another couple of people to work with me on this.