Illustrated DND Webseries The Best Available - Help Wanted!

There's a few components of the editing process, but the one this role applies to is what we refer to as "the fourth wall"; beneath the fourth wall (the frame) is our artist's illustrations and animated battlemap recreations, but above it are the portraits of the DND characters and the poseable avatar of the Dungeon Master.

Your role would be to go through the source audio provided (usually somewhere between 15-25 minutes long) and edit the PNGs so that they align with the speech of the characters. The portraits of the characters have a binary speaking/not-speaking switch, with some special expressions for laughter or being wounded. The Dungeon Master has a variety of facial expressions, mouth shapes, and arm poses; your job would be to make him seem as expressive as possible. This usually takes me around an hour, but I work very quickly, so I'd estimate most people would take two hours at first. I'm offering a flat rate of $40 per episode, but this can be negotiated with longer videos or if you've worked with us for long enough to build up some trust in your abilities. There's a certain minimum of expressiveness we want here, so if the posing isn't enough, you may be requested to go back through and add more detailed movement. Overall, this work is very simple; just tedious.

You need to know how to use Adobe Premiere.

This is the simplest and lowest-effort role on offer: we have several videos already produced in longform. I will provide you a format to convert these into shortform videos. Your job would be to go through these longform videos and select short segments you think would make somewhat engaging shortform videos. You won't use every single second, but roughly ~70% of the original episode should end up as shorts. It shouldn't take more than an hour to go through one twenty minute video this way.

This one is a bit odd, but effectively; I'm a self taught video editor. I've gotten pretty good at the visual side of things, but I'm going by ear for sounds and audio. If you are an audio engineer and have experience in Adobe Premiere, drop your contact information, and I am willing to pay you for a one-time consultation to learn more about this side of video production and standardize the audio design of the series.

To be clear; we absolutely value artists, your work is invaluable. This is not one of those "be grateful for the exposure" situations, we just have almost no budget; our lead artists are volunteers because it's a project that is near and dear to them, and they want to see it be made. We can't afford to offer you enough to be fair labor; if you are interested in the project, we have a wealth of content to illustrate and produce. If you have your own DND game you'd like to make into a webseries, we'll be happy to work with you to make that happen as well. Realistically, though, this would be a leap of faith; we believe in our work. If you want to get in on the ground floor and grow with us, shoot us a message! Otherwise, I'll see you when we have a bigger budget. 

The nature of the work is what you see in the videos; illustrating scenes and characters to represent the stories we're telling. As a volunteer, your time is naturally going to be limited; we would intentionally structure any production you are involved with to be slow and steady, giving you time to work on it in your spare time instead of being forced into a crunch. We're also interested in creating animatics of scenes from our games, if that is more up your alley.

For the most part, we use videogame soundtracks to score each episode; no composer could create enough original music to keep up with the pace we have. We do, however, need a theme song for The Best Available. I have several ideas and references, and can talk extensively about what I'm looking for, I'm just not a skilled composer. We're looking for high-fantasy sounds, so nothing hyperdigital, synthesized, etc. Digital VSTs are acceptable if they are of acoustic instruments.

We'd be looking to commission a single song of roughly a minute in length to begin with; we would very likely commission you further to iterate on that theme for poignant moments in the series, using the skeleton of the song as a motif, creating tense dramatic versions, slower, sad versions, and the like. Pricing is negotiable.