• Freelance
  • Remote

Website bakarmax_ Bakarmax

2D SENIOR ANIMATOR

NUMBER OF POSITIONS: 10

EXPERIENCE: 4-5 years

LOCATION: Remote

INVOLVEMENT: Contractual

DURATION: 6 months to a year

We are an Animation and Comics studio. We create original content, which then is published on our social and our website. One of our own ideas – Zindagi CGHS has been greenlit for a pilot. It’s a mass market hindi animated sitcom for grown ups.

Other than this we are working on our Kickstarter Series Aaapki Poojita, we make monthly sketches (like in SNL) and do client work.

This is your chance to be part of an all original animated comedy series!

We’re currently looking for a humble weirdo from India, Malaysia, Vietnam or literally anywhere in South Asia or the world, to key-animate us to success.

RESPONSIBILITIES:

  1. Take sequences from the animatic and complete the rough animation.
  2. Provide corrections. 
  3. Collaborate with your assistants – Inbetween and cleanup artists.
  4. Suggest changes to the director – To improve animation quality or timeline, before a sequence begins.
  5. We’re a small team – Providing support to each other is crucial.

QUALIFICATIONS/SKILLS:

  1. Adobe Flash or any other 2D animation software.
  2. Strong understanding of the principles of animation.
  3. Strong understanding of rigged animation and the symbol method. Our ICON METHOD method is a mix of drawing and rigging using symbols.
  4. In our world, there is no animation without drawing. You need to know it.
  5. Love for animation – location does not matter.

WE OFFER:

  1. Two ways to work with us:
    • CONTRACTUAL: Exclusive, across all projects for a fixed monthly fee.
    • FREELANCE: Commission-based, paid per industry-standard second rate.
  2. We take care of software costs, licenses and online training.
  3. Opportunity to work with one of India’s best animators – Vivekananda Roy Ghatak. Check out the title sequence he directed for Amazon Prime’s DUPAHIYA and his short film De-De.
  4. Advance is issued to all our vendors – ranging from 10-50%
  5. Full and final payments are done within 30 days of the date of invoicing. We don’t delay payments.
  6. Credit – We give credit wherever we can.
  7. We involve our vendors on our original and experimental self funded projects.
  8. You’ll be part of the Bakarmax artist network—cartoonists, writers, animators, the whole gang.
  9. You get to participate in team activities.
  10. REVOLUTIONARY! humane working hours (no weekends) and decent behaviour (nobody screams, only passive aggressive)
  11. Unlimited Vacation policy.

TO APPLY:

  1. Latest showreel or best work.
  2. Test – Not required at the time of application.
  3. CV – don’t worry if you had 60% in Tenth boards. It does not matter. I had 40% and I run this company.

Send this to whodis@bakarmax.com

To apply for this job email your details to whodis@bakarmax.com