Needed: 2D Spine Animator for Tactical RPG

tuanhm107

Subject: Needed: 2D Spine Animator for Tactical RPG

kgambill wrote
Hello! My studio Winterborn is looking to bring on a contract animator to animate character units for our upcoming isometric tactical RPG Externus: Path of the Solari. We are a small indie studio and have way more work than our sole artist can handle, and luckily our Kickstarter for the game last year was successful for raising funds to bring on a contract animator.

Your role would be working with our artist to get characters rigged and animated into Spine. The animations will be a mixture of more simplistic sprite-inspired combat animations to some more detailed animations for scripted cutscenes.

Work will be fully remote as our studio is already fully remote, and work hours are completely up to you as long as things are done in a timely fashion and there are no problems with communication between you and the team.

Requirements:
Spine Professional License
Experience using skins in Spine

Bonus:
Experience with isometric animations
Experience with version control software (we use Perforce)
Love of tactical RPGs
Photoshop Experience

If interested, please send me a message and include experience, links to work you can showcase, and your desired rate. I can provide additional information there and if we move forward will probably set up a video call with the team or at the very least our artist you would be working with.

You can find more information about the game at https://externusgame.com/

Finally, here are images for a few of our characters so you have an idea of what you would be working with

My name is Han Tuan. I'm a freelance 2D artist/animator with over 6 years of experience working in the mobile gaming industry.
You can check out my animation portfolio here:
https://tuanhmartdump.myportfolio.com/spine-2d-animation
I also have lots of experience with digital painting and VFX work which I think may benefit in a cooperative work environment.
I have good experience with versioning tools like Git.
My hourly rate is $18.

Hope my portfolio would be a good match for your project
Thank you very much!
Regards

kgambill

Hi Han,

Sorry for the late reply – last week turned out to be pretty hectic.

Thanks for reaching out - the team and I took a look and your work is impressive! I wanted to ask and see what time zone you were in to see if there might be a possibility you could join a video call with me and a few members of our team to further discuss the possibility of working together.

Could you let me know your time zone and a rough idea of when you might be free next week ( April 26th - April 30th ) to see if we might be able to set something up?

Thanks!
-Kent

tuanhm107

Hello Kent,
That's awesome to know!
I'm currently on ICT timezone (GMT+7). I will be available all time next week, so just give me a schedule 🙂
Hope to talk to you guys soon!
Best,
Han

kgambill

We definitely have a big time difference, but I think we can still find a time that works. Would you be available any of the following times?

Thursday 29th 8am ICT
Thursday 29th 9pm ICT
Friday 30th 8am ICT
Friday 30th 9pm ICT
Saturday May 1st 8am ICT

Please let me know if any of those work and which you would prefer and we can set up a video chat on our end with myself and our artist.

Thanks,
Kent

tuanhm107

Yes we do. But I often work pretty late in my time, so I can manage sometimes to sync the day with you guys.
Thursday 29th 8am ICT
Thursday 29th 9pm ICT
These times would work for me this week (we have some official days off for this week, from April 30th to May 3rd). I'd be glad to talk with you guys soon.
Thank you!
Han.

kgambill

Let's do Thursday 29th 9pm ICT. Our artist said that would be the best time for him.

Could you let me know your preferred e-mail address? We use Microsoft Teams so I should be able to schedule the call and by adding your e-mail to the call you should get an invite with a link to be able to join the call either via the Teams app or a web browser.

tuanhm107

kgambill wrote
Let's do Thursday 29th 9pm ICT. Our artist said that would be the best time for him.

Could you let me know your preferred e-mail address? We use Microsoft Teams so I should be able to schedule the call and by adding your e-mail to the call you should get an invite with a link to be able to join the call either via the Teams app or a web browser.

Sure! Glad to hear.
Please hit me up on mtuanm03 @ gmail. com