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2025 Summer Internship - Sequential Artist:

137 Ewes Productions is a wildly new animation studio that primarily features animals as our main characters. We are incredibly excited to find out more about our characters and world through working with you.

Internship Duration
June 30th - August 22nd

Application Deadline
January 31st, 2025 11:59pm pst.

Responsibilities
Will be assigned comic script and/or screenplay to transform into Comic Panels and Pages throughout the summer.
Minimum expected pages: 30

Stipend
USD20 / finished US Standard Comic Page
We recommend also checking with your University to see if you can get credit, if you need.

Qualifications

• Good grasp of perspectives, camera angles, and various shot types in film and animation
• Strong draftsmanship / drawing skills
• Strong composition in arrangement of panels and how story flows in static images / comic format
• Great understanding of herbivores, four-legged locomotion, animal behaviors and/or passion to want to learn these areas (we are only at the tip of the iceberg to truly understand animals)
• Great understanding of various emotions and how to express them effectively
• Fluent with Adobe Photoshop for Sequential Drawings, Lettering, and Coloring, and InDesign for book layout
• Time Management ability to complete assignments on time
• Wild creativity to stretch your imagination in composition, rhythm, lighting to enhance the story you are assigned to
• Unique perspectives shown through your portfolio
• Effective at taking notes on feedback and implementing verbal, written, and/or draw-over feedback
• Ability to attend weekly meetings (twice a week during the summer)
  
• Be a rising Sophomore, Junior, Senior in a BFA program, ideally in Storyboarding, Sequential Art, and/or Animation. OR in an enrolled MFA program of similar degree: Storyboarding / Sequential Art / Animation [You must verify you are enrolled after internship acceptance]

Portfolio Advice Notes:

• We don’t do Webtoons, at least not yet. We can’t made a decision about scrolling-type presentation of comics. 
• Instagram or swipable comics do not allow us to assess your portfolio. While it’s good to have this in your portfolio, the square format and the swipable format is limiting to comics, when the space of the page is your best friend in controlling TIME. So while these forms do bring short form gags, we cannot tell your skills in understanding space arrangement to facilitate storytelling or the passage of time.
  
• Similarly, we respect storyboard works and it’s complicated in its own context, however, it is not sufficient to demonstrate your ability to understand the space of the page nor panel arrangement ability nor panel sizing ability.
• We only accept comics portfolio that are intended for print or digital books, whether it’s a short, or a longform that you are sending us. 
• While the traditional Comic Artist world can have separate roles from inker to colorist to letterist, we ask that for the fluidity of how our current productions work, that you are able to do all three. 
• You will be guided / led on choices of color if that is not your strong suit. And we are always excited for you to grow in an area that you were not previously strong at.  
• You do need to understand how lettering enhances the reading experience from sound effects to how a dialog comes across. The emphasis on certain words, the combined experience of words and images. 

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