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2024 Summer Internship - Storyboard Artist - LinkedIn Post Reference:

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
July 1st - August 23rd

Application Deadline

May 31st, 2024 11:59pm pst.

Responsibilities

Will be assigned either 3D animated shorts for our characters’ character sketches OR our episodic content current in development.

3D Animated Shorts

• 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
• Full Animatic by end of internship (~3 minutes)

Episodic In-Development Scripts

• Each episode runs about 22 minutes. You would be assigned a scene that can last anywhere from 1 minute to 5 minutes.
• 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 requirement is completing ONE 3-5 minutes sequence in full animatic by the end of the internship.

You are welcome to choose one or both - please indicate in your application and/or interview. You are welcome to either further your strength or practice through these assignments to improve your weak areas.

Qualifications

• Good grasp of perspectives, camera angles, and various shot types in film and animation
• Strong draftsmanship / drawing skills
• 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 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
• Allotting minimum of 20 hours per week and maximum 32 hours on actual drawings for storyboards during this internship
• 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]

Perks

• Stipend for ToonBoom License for the duration of the internship.
• University Credit [we strongly recommend you find a supervisor / advisor at your school to evaluate your internship work and give credit]
• Based on how your University offers credits for internships, we can customize / design the internship according to your school’s requirements to fulfill your credit needs.
  
• Internship is Module / Assignment / Curriculum based to help you pace and accomplish goals so that you have proud work to show after the internship.
  
• You work at YOUR pace. We are not asking for professional industry standards as you are still learning. We are patient and usually assess your pace in the first two weeks of your output.
• You decide how much you want to challenge yourself.
• The work you produce gets to go into your demo reel / portfolio right away, even though you still need to sign an NDA with us, and put the work in a password protected area of your website.