REOPEN 2D Animated Thesis Film [animated pilot]

REOPEN 2D Animated Thesis Film [animated pilot]

Project Overview

PROJECT COPIED AND REOPENED FOR AUDITIONS.

YES - submissions from the previous version will be considered. Please feel free to resubmit if you want!

STORYBOARD IS COMPLETE. For those of you wondering about the silence on my end of the project- this is A PROJECT I AM STILL  VERY SERIOUS about completing. I can't graduate without it after all!

Reasons it has been postponed and opened again... health issues. I am currently on a medical leave from college for my physical and mental health. However this project is still very important to me, and needs to be completed in order for me to graduate next year. So I still need voice actors ASAP so I can begin animation this summer.

If you have any further questions about it please dm my insta @ Saffacilly. Thank you for your understanding and support. I am more likely to respond there. 


Please only voice actors over 18. Content may include cursing and some inappropriate jokes. Nothing explicitly nsfw. 

Dream of having your voice and singing animated to some totally cute characters?! Look no further! 

Hello CCC!! My name is Cecilia. 

I am a fourth year animation student studying at SVA. I am looking for wonderful voice talent to bring life to my thesis film!! 

I am looking for people really passionate about voice acting- because i'm looking to create a long term partnership. Some of you may recognize me from my previous casting call or my instagram- you may know I am heavily interested in showrunning and want to continue this project even after I graduate! The film itself will function as a "pilot" / "sizzle reel" / short animation to go alongside a pitch bible I would like to create next year.

Much like my previous project- "Anti-Vampire", I will be interested in creating comic dubs, short animations, animatics, etc. not related to the film itself! (But with the same characters!) I want to create a lot of content and develop a fanbase for my characters!!

  • If you want to see more of what I mean, please check out my instagram @Saffacilly or my youtube @Saffronyx. 


The Film

My thesis film and pilot (currently untitled) follows an overworked, anxious, constantly-getting-fired-from-her-jobs, stressed out college girl named Fraidy who, on top of all of her earthly duties, has a part time job of working as a Grim Reaper every friday. 

The film itself will follow Fraidy getting pulled from her part time donut shop job by an (currently unnamed) overly excited and bubbly second grim reaper to do their supernatural work and earn a good score on their reaper evaluations and impress their pretentious and fussy Grim Reaper boss! 


Voice Acting

I am currently looking for 4 voice actors- although I may add more as I develop more of the storyboard and introduce more background characters / crowds.

Fraidy: The protagonist. An anxious, fidgety human college student who works at part time jobs to pay for school. Although she can be quite anxious- she is also somewhat hot headed, and isn't cowardly. She's more afraid of getting fired than any type of supernatural threat. Often fired from her jobs, she picks up a lot of odd jobs- fast food, retail, fence painting, pet food taste testing, amusement parks- and of course, grim reaper-ing.

(Unnamed second grim reaper): I still can't decide on a name for her, sorry. Suggestions are welcome! For now I'll just call her "pumpkin girl". Pumpkin girl is an overly excitable, fourth wall breaking, silly grim reaper girl with a pumpkin for a head! Her design is based off of the headless horseman, and she uses her detachable head often for all sorts of silly gags and gravity defying tricks. She's immature, crazy, and a little bit dumb, but still has a pretty feminine air about her. She's super overly attached to Fraidy who doesn't always appreciate her random hugs or jump-scare style cheerful greetings. She also loves to randomly break into song!

The Boss:  The boss is an intimidating, nit-picky, egotistical Grim Reaper who is responsible for the two aforementioned dweebs. Although she's the two's boss, she isn't the most powerful or highest ranking reaper out there. But she sure acts like it. She often refuses to see other's point of view or listen to others, and she HATES humans. Basically, just a shitty boss all around.

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Other than voices, I am looking for producers (to help manage the team), mentors, critiques, "beta testers", anyone to help get a second opinion on my designs... etc.. on a volunteer basis. Please contact me if you are genuinely interested in giving your opinions or ideas to help improve the project to the highest standard of quality it can be.

If you got this far, thank you so much for reading! I'm looking forward to hearing all of your lovely voices! 

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  • Hello!!

    Hello! Quick message- I just want to thank you all for this incredible response to my casting call in such a short period!! Thank you thank you !! I am beginning to listen to them now. Please note that auditions from the previous version will be considered as well. But if you would like to re record or resubmit, you are totally welcome to!! Thank you all for your support and kind words 🙏🙏Things have been very difficult recently for me and its been difficult to work on this project. (which is why its taking longer than id like) But hearing that all of you enjoy it and want to see more truly makes me smile. :} thank you ! - Cecilia
Project Roles: Fraidy Pumpkin girl (VOICE ACTING) Pumpkin Girl (SINGING) Boss Donut Shop Employee Pumpkin Girl Song Composer Sound Designer / Mixer Background Colorist
Voice Actor
Voice Actor
Fraidy
open
Unpaid

Female - 20 something - human - ginger

pronounced Fray - Dee , like 'Fraidy Cat

The protagonist of the film. Fraidy is a young 20 something college student stressed out of her mind and constantly messing things up. 

An anxious, fidgety human college student who works at part time jobs to pay for school. Although she can be quite anxious- she is also somewhat hot headed, and isn't cowardly. She's more afraid of getting fired than any type of supernatural threat. Often fired from her jobs, she picks up a lot of odd jobs- fast food, retail, fence painting, pet food taste testing, amusement parks- and of course, grim reaper-ing.

Singing ability is preferred but not necessary- yet. (she will not be singing in the film). 

  • Hole-y moley. Welcome to the Donut Hole. We have a whole lot of new donuts waiting to dough-tally rock your friday. Sprinkle on some fall fun with our a-glaze-ing new "PSL and chill" Pumpkin spice donut. This gourd-geous treat is totally hashtag squash goals. 

    *sigh.*

    (monotone, tired grumpily- how a part time job makes you feel. She is reading from a script of what her fast food job wants her to say! She thinks its incredibly lame in all honesty.) 

  • Agh! Jesus christ! What are you doing here?! You almost gave me a heart attack! ...You know they'd kill my ass if I dropped these sprinkles!

    (surprised- after getting surprised by pumpkin girl saying hello) 

  • No- No No! Seriously- Why is everything going WRONG! First of all i'm literally MISSING work, i'm gonna get my ass handed to me, do you know how crowded the store was?! we can't seem to do a single job right and now theres some evil ghost trying to kill us! Are you shitting me?! WHY can't I have a relaxing friday for ONCE?! 

    (anxious, speaking fast, almost on the verge of tears)

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Voice Actor
Voice Actor
Pumpkin girl (VOICE ACTING)
open
Unpaid

PLEASE APPLY FOR BOTH THIS ROLE AND THE SINGING ROLE IN TANDEM

I still can't decide on a name for her, sorry. Suggestions are welcome! For now I'll just call her "pumpkin girl". Pumpkin girl is an overly excitable, fourth wall breaking, silly grim reaper girl with a pumpkin for a head! Her design is based off of the headless horseman, and she uses her detachable head often for all sorts of silly gags and gravity defying tricks. She's immature, crazy, and a little bit dumb, but still has a pretty feminine air about her. She's super overly attached to Fraidy who doesn't always appreciate her random hugs or jump-scare style cheerful greetings. 

EDIT: 10/2 - after listening to some auditions i heard some that i really liked in a sort of boston accent!! Kinda like spinel..? Again, if you can't do an accent well please dont force it!! Your audition can be fine without it. But if anyone can do a spinel type voice (but original in its own way of course) id love to hear it.

Also- more advice for everyone- please try not to overdo her cutesy ness!! She is cutesy and silly- but i dontt want it to feel like, annoying or grating? Please keep it more natural if you can!! Thank you !! 

She also loves to randomly break into song!

IMPORTANT: 

THIS IS A SINGING AND VOICE ACTING ROLE. There is going to be a <1 minute insert song in the film sang by "pumpkin girl". See "singing" role for more information. Please apply with your voice acting to THIS role and your singing to the "singing" role. 

  • You're like, the coolest human I know! And you're the only human I know. Thats like, sooo cool!! *giggles* 

    So- human question for my favorite human. What is "asbestos poisoning?" 

  • Hey!! (pouting) No cursing, you potty mouth! Do you kiss your mother with that mouth?!

    (sudden surprise / tone shift) AAHH FUCK! SPIDERS!! FUCK!! UWAHAHAHAH!! 

  • Are you excited to go to woooooork?!~ I know I am. I LOVE WORKING!! I just LOVE killing people! But- um - not in a creepy way of course. By the way, did you do something new with your hair?! I wish I had hair. You should let me braid your hair sometime! I don't know how but i'm sure I could figure it out..

    Wuh- where are you going?!

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Singer
Singer
Pumpkin Girl (SINGING)
open
Unpaid

Pumpkin Girl (still unnamed!) singing auditions!

Please upload samples of your singing voice ! Price is listed at "zero" here - but the actual price is in the voice acting role. (It is for both singing and voice acting.) 

Singing quality: MUST have quality mic. Strong voices preferred- able to be heard over background audio. Music style will be pop punk / musical / talk singing. Since the music is pretty intense probably, a strong voice able to be heard over the audio is required! 

Cutesy voices preferred. So like, more pinkie pie than rarity. You don't need to sound super grand and elegant- just cute!

The song will be a fast paced somewhat talk-singing song behind a montage scene, describing what is happening. It will be an original song, I am going to be given instrumentals for you to cover by my composer. 

Example: Bo Burnham, but more specifically something like this cover here, https://youtu.be/Bc9pSOrfYF0

I also would give pinkie pie https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bVfzvS0FbR8  

and izzy moonbow ( kimiko glenn )  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jgylBbB0618 as an example.

I'm not a musician so I'm not the best at describing this kind of thing! If you have questions please let me know!! 

  • Please upload your singing demo reel / samples of your singing voice. See description for information. 

  • If you ARE interested in recording something new for this audition- please check out the examples in the description and feel free to cover them! Especially "welcome to the internet"! 

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Voice Actor
Voice Actor
Boss
open
Unpaid

The boss is an intimidating, nit-picky, egotistical Grim Reaper who is responsible for the two aforementioned dweebs. Although she's the two's boss, she isn't the most powerful or highest ranking reaper out there. But she sure acts like it. She often refuses to see other's point of view or listen to others, and she HATES humans. Basically, just a shitty boss all around. 

British accent  to be considered! But please don't force it! 

Looking for something more on the sultry / mature side as well. yknow, like, girlboss.


Design is not finalized! 

  • I am not back-seat reaper-ing! You idiots just don't know how to do your jobs! - 

    HEY! YOU THERE! NO SMILING ON THE CLOCK! 

  • Are you two done canoodling? No no- i'll wait. Don't let my BACK BREAKING LABOR interrupt your LEISURELY CONVERSATION. 

  • *clears throat* Um.. Thanks for saving my life I guess. 

    (sudden tone switch) 

    But you'd have to save my life at least 100 times to make up for your GROSS NEGLIGENCE! Hmpph! I'm calling corporate. 

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Voice Actor
Voice Actor
Donut Shop Employee
closed
Unpaid
Role assigned to: itsthepinoyboy

Side role- only 1 or 2 lines. 

  • Fraidy- stop that! you're keeping our customers waiting! 

    (through clenched teeth, trying to talk only to her and not make it evident to customers he's pissed off- but he's pissed off.) 

    (p.s. - its pronounced " Fray - dee" . Like 'fraidy cat.)

  • Why don't you go get more sprinkles from the freezer, kay?

    (fake niceness, wants her out of the way) 

  • SO sorry about that ma'am. What was that you wanted? The "Scrumptious Pumpkin Hole Delight?"

    (speaking to customer after interaction with Fraidy) 

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Music Composer
Music Composer
Pumpkin Girl Song Composer
open
Unpaid

Hello! I am looking for a musical composer to create a short (<1 minute) insert song for the film. My previous composers have backed out on me due to personal issues so I am looking for people to help me create a catchy, fun song to really make the film shine! 

I am looking for something a mix of something kind of musical / mischievous / silly with both singing and a short section of almost “talk-singing.”

I will be providing lyrics, and I am looking for someone to create a song around them. The storyboard is complete, but will be edited around your song. I will then give your instrumental to my singer to sing the words over. A vocal cover is helpful. Or, sheet music. Anything to help my singer properly follow along! 

Please apply with samples of your work that fit the theme if you have any.

And please let me know if you have experience working with lyrics / vocalists.

 Inspiration: Musicals, Bo Burnham, The Living Tombstone, Cg5, Or3o, electro swing. etc. anything spooky, catchy, fun and cool. Any style is ok but im preferring electronic / punk rock / orchestra / swing / electro swing. Please ask me here or at my instagram @Saffacilly if you have any questions!  

Since this role is more specific, please be available via somewhere to chat so we can discuss further if i hire you! We can work out the specifics and price together. 

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Audio Engineer
Audio Engineer
Sound Designer / Mixer
open
Unpaid

Looking for anyone willing to help with sound design / mixing. Looking for SFX recordings, mixing of audio including voice lines, and things of that nature.

I will be doing most of the sound design, but I would greatly appreciate a second opinion or a designer to help critique and improve it, bring new ideas to the sound design, and to do some parts of it where I may be busy with animation.

Basically just include your SFX / Mixing / Sound Design reel here if you're interested in helping!! <3

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Artist
Artist
Background Colorist
open
Unpaid

Please include a link to your portfolio or samples of your work. I am looking for people to help me in coloring my backgrounds (Theres over 80!) 

Settings include:

Graveyard

Club

Grandmothers house

Underwater scene

Construction Site

TV studio

Etc. I will provide style examples. My bg inspirations include my little pony, hazbin hotel, lauren faust

Backgrounds are in a lineless style.

MAY BE OPEN TO PAYING PEOPLE!! Im just looking currently for any volunteers. Thank you for your interest and support.

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