2026 Summer Internship - Visual Development Artist:
137 Ewes Productions is a wildly imaginative animation and comics studio where animals take center stage. We are constantly discovering more about our characters and world — and we want to do that with you.
If you are serious about visual development and concept art as a craft, this is your role. We go deep — character design, environment and prop design, color, composition, and the full visual language of an original animated world. You will design and paint for real characters and real stories, get real feedback, and contribute to work that will most likely be published. No busy work. Just drawing and painting with intention.
Internship Duration June 15th – August 21st, 2026
Application Deadline March 10th, 2026 at 11:59pm PST
If the LinkedIn application closes before the deadline, apply directly on our website at: https://www.137ewes.com/visdev-intern-app.html
Application Steps Before applying, please complete the following — incomplete applications will not be considered:
Responsibilities Interns will be assigned any of the following:
Qualifications
Character Design
A Few Things Worth Knowing
Nationality & Location
If you are serious about visual development and concept art as a craft, this is your role. We go deep — character design, environment and prop design, color, composition, and the full visual language of an original animated world. You will design and paint for real characters and real stories, get real feedback, and contribute to work that will most likely be published. No busy work. Just drawing and painting with intention.
Internship Duration June 15th – August 21st, 2026
Application Deadline March 10th, 2026 at 11:59pm PST
If the LinkedIn application closes before the deadline, apply directly on our website at: https://www.137ewes.com/visdev-intern-app.html
Application Steps Before applying, please complete the following — incomplete applications will not be considered:
- Subscribe to the Baapolis Substack: https://kopernicus.substack.com/ — this gives you a feel for the world you'll be working in and prepares you for your interview
- Apply on LinkedIn or directly on our website
- Have a portfolio website (not Instagram, not social media, not Google Drive) that clearly features your visual development and concept art work. Your portfolio should demonstrate strong draftsmanship, design sensibility, and an understanding of character, environment, or prop design. Your portfolio link — including any passwords — must be visible on your resume and LinkedIn profile. We should not have to hunt for it.
Responsibilities Interns will be assigned any of the following:
- Character Design
- Environment Design
- Prop Design
- Keyframe illustration and painting to test composition and color
Qualifications
Character Design
- Strong understanding of anatomy — and always willing to refer back to it
- Strong draftsmanship and drawing skills
- Understanding of herbivores, four-legged locomotion, and animal behavior — or a genuine passion to learn
- Ability to express a wide range of emotions effectively through character
- Fluency in Adobe Photoshop for drawing and painting
- Diligent in researching characters, reference images, and history
- Strong time management — ability to meet assignment deadlines
- Wild creativity and a genuine stretch of imagination
- Unique ability to pose characters with conviction — action poses, movement through space
- Ability to draw turnarounds
- Strong draftsmanship and drawing skills
- Accurate understanding and implementation of perspective in all forms
- Solid knowledge of values, light, and shadow
- Diligent in researching prop and environment details, inspirations, and reference images
- Strong time management — ability to meet assignment deadlines
- Wild creativity and a genuine stretch of imagination
- Ability to draw object turnarounds
- Color theory knowledge a plus
- Painting knowledge a plus
- Ability to absorb and implement verbal, written, and draw-over feedback effectively
- Minimum commitment of 15 hours per week, maximum 20 hours, on actual drawings during this internship
- Currently enrolled as a rising Sophomore, Junior, or Senior in a BFA program (ideally Visual Development, Concept Art, and/or Animation), or enrolled in a comparable MFA program — enrollment must be verified after acceptance
A Few Things Worth Knowing
- This internship is curriculum and assignment based — you will have a clear pace, real goals, and proud work to show at the end
- We assess your pace in the first two weeks and work with you from there — we are not expecting industry standards, you are still learning and we are patient
- You decide how much you want to challenge yourself
- Work produced during the internship goes directly into your portfolio — though you will sign an NDA and keep work in a password protected area of your website
- Academic credit is strongly encouraged — we can customize the internship structure to meet your school's credit requirements
- This internship is unpaid
Nationality & Location
- You may reside anywhere in the world during the summer — our internships are designed for cross-cultural collaboration
- International applications are warmly welcome; conversational English is required for co-working with other interns
- No visa required — but active school enrollment is required
