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2025 Summer Internship - Storyboard 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 animated shorts OR episodic content current in development.

• Use your unique understanding of how action works in a visual storytelling environment to draft sequences for one or more character sketches
• Rough beat boards / thumbnails
• Refined Drafts / Detailed Panels

• Ruminate on how to visually bring characters alive through their emotions when delivering dialogue in dialogue heavy scenes
• Deliberate and break down action scenes
• Rough beat boards / thumbnails
• Refined Drafts / Detailed Panels
• Full Animatic of the scene assigned to you by end of internship (~3 minutes minimum, 5 minutes standard expectation)
  
• Ability to attend weekly meetings (twice a week)
  

Qualifications

• Good grasp of perspectives, camera angles, and various shot types in film and animation
• Strong draftsmanship / drawing skills
  
• Strong grasp of human poses, bipedal actions
  
• Great understanding of , animal behaviors, actions, and/or passion to want to learn
  
• Great understanding of various emotions and how to express them in thumbnail fashion
• Experience using ToonBoom Storyboard Pro [If you have not used it, it is not hard to catch on with just 2 weeks of practice, and we will give you that time to become familiar with the software]
  
• 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
  
• 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 or we need to rescind the offer]
  

Stipend

• Stipend 30USD per standard screenplay page of script (a 5 minute animatic for instance will usually be 10-20 pages of script depending on amount of action or speech)
• University Credit [we strongly recommend you find a supervisor / advisor at your school to evaluate your internship work and give credit]