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Jake Ganz @jakeganz

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Interested in animation assistant services? Check this out.

Posted by jakeganz - July 19th, 2012


I wanted to try something. I don't think I've ever seen anyone offer something like this - If there are people out there already doing it I apologize, but if not I figured I'd throw it out there.

Basic work samples:
animation test
recent drawings on my tumblr

As I've been working more lately, I've found that it is extremely nice to have someone helping out on your work, especially animations. Sometimes certain parts of the animation process really don't appeal to people, and that's where this assist comes in.

Hate doing in-betweens, clean up, or coloring/shading?
I've never seen anyone actually offer a service for this, but I thought it'd be an interesting idea to try a small commission service for people's animations in which I'll take on some of their workload per hour in order to help people get their flashes done faster. I would ask for a very reasonable, extremely low hourly rate, but I am even willing to do an hour of any of these processes for free if you're skeptical, so that you can be assured satisfaction.

What you get out of this:
- Faster work on your projects. I'll do any of the work you may consider "grunt work". Two people generally work twice as fast!
- Experience having an assistant. If you're interested in getting into the industry as an animator or even just having a taste of what it might be like, you might benefit from knowing the feeling of having someone work under you.
- A free hour of this service on any of your projects.
- The ability to boss someone around. Do you like to boss people around? Who doesn't like to boss people around. No wait where are you going COME BACK

What I get out of this:
- A little bit of money. Gotta pay bills and save for college next year. (currently my rates are quite low, but we can figure something out depending on what needs to be done on a given project)
- More experience.

Service
- I'm most comfortable working on character animation and FX animation, but would be willing to work on anything else that you might need assist on.
- I'd be willing to do in-between animation, clean-up, coloring and shading, but if you have something else you need help with, let me know.
- I've worked in flash and photoshop for 7 years.

Boundaries
- This isn't a regular animation commission, and I'm not doing entire projects. I'm only doing assist work, so check "Service" above if you're wondering what I'm offering.
- PayPal only! (for now)
- I would be willing to animate on really any project, but I reserve the right to refuse if it's something I'm really uncomfortable working on.
- I would prefer to work with people who are serious about what they're doing and genuinely care about being an animator and getting animation projects done.
- I also prefer to work in flash Cs3, but I would also be willing to work in Flash/Photoshop Cs4 and Cs5, and I can generate .fla's for Flash 8.

Contact
If you're interested in a service like this, you can e-mail me, or PM me on here. I also have skype (janonaques), AIM (megabosu) and MSN (same as my e-mail), so feel free to drop me a note anywhere if you're interested or just want to ask a question. I'm around very often, so it likely will not take me too long to respond.

Let me know what you think, and feel free to give me any feedback!

Thank you~

- Jake Ganz


Comments

I don't understand whether you're offering 1 hour free service, or whether you're offering a "decide what you pay me, then I'll give you one "free" hour in addition".
The first one makes more sense, but offering people a free hour of assistance doesn't sound like it'll help with your bills. Is it like a free trial?

To clear this up, I mean that I'm offering an hourly animation assist service for a rate the client and I decide on, but if they're skeptical, I'd be willing to do a hour free so no one feels like any of their money was wasted.

I think this is a great idea. If I was richer I would love someone like you to do clean up, coloring, and inbetweens with my projects @_@ I'll let you know if anything changes :B

i'm planning on charging very cheap if you're interested, so don't be shy about asking ;O

hi jake.

hi Luis~

The animation examples great, I'm just curious to why you changed the outline color every frame?

If I had a project going on right now I'd definitely use your service though. (:

I honestly shouldn't have left the frames colored that way in that link, but I use it to get more accuracy in the placement of forms when I draw in-betweens.

I want a hi like Luis.

hi!

I'm keeping you in mind for a television project i'm working on. I'm actually having troubles doing the finishing touches for the first episode and i'd love to see what you can do to make it stand out a bit more, but i'll finish it myself for now because it's my first commission and I need to be sure I get the money before hiring ya. but the next episode would have to be done sooner like 4 weeks for 4 minutes so I am really considering getting help from someone. your timing was just right <3

sounds great! i'll get in contact asap~

That actually sounds pretty damn good. When I first saw this I thought "lol, anigen?", then I checked out the work you posted along and was pretty much stunned.

You have improved so much since I saw you animate last (which was that wonchop thing btw). Way to go man, I'm happy for ya.

Just a silly question though, this is only for 2D work, right? So nothing like a helping hand with simple animations in Blender (which I might need soon), correct?

Either way, good luck mang!

I appreciate you saying that! I've been working a while on refining my animation and decided to start this service. As for your question, I do intend to learn 3d, but not for a while, for now I'm primarily focusing on 2d.