The Spectacular Spider-Man Continued Geography 101 (Spectacle Stars)

We are looking for an Assistant Voice Director with some level of experience to assist with the directing, recording, and editing of voice acting lines by our many talented VAs in our cast! 

Looking for some amount of experience here. If you have only amateur voice acted BUT have some level of acting/theatre experience, that would be a plus for consideration.

Good candidates will be able to:

- Oversee virtual recording sessions with or without the head Voice Director, giving direction on delivery, cadence, annunciation, emphasis, tone, etc. 

- Cut down and separate voice lines and takes, also the ability to edit voice lines is a plus. 

- Maintain DM conversations with multiple Voice Actors, keeping up with progress on recordings (if the VA records on their own), editing, direction questions, etc. Drafting documents or spreadsheets for different plans or tracking progress of team members

- Take a script and produce Line Read Sheets for each VA and their character(s). (All sheets for Geography 101 are already produced, but having this ability will be crucial down the line as we move onto our Season 3 continuation.)

- Oversee castings and recasting with the head Voice Director when applicable, though final decisions will be made as a collective effort between team leadership.

- Utilize Discord, as it is our main source of communication among the team.

- Prior viewing of the Spectacular Spider-Man animated series is not required, but is certainly a plus. If the candidate has not seen the show, they will be required to view it in order to familiarize themselves with the various returning voice types that they will be working with. 

BE SURE TO SUBMIT A VOICE MESSAGE DOWN BELOW INTRODUCING YOURSELF AND LISTING OUT YOUR EXPERIENCE AND WHAT YOU'D BE PROFICIENT AT, THANKS EVERYBODY IN ADVANCE :D

Similar to the Producer role posted here, but if you're an animator by trade with knowledge of animation pipelines, this role could be for you!

We are looking for someone with a background in animation and animation pipelines who could be of great help to manage the progress of our Art/Animation Department, and has the know-how to get the animation from a blank page all the way to a finished deal! Storyboards, animatic, backgrounding, layout, key animation, cleanup/in-between, digital ink and paint, compositing, you'll oversee all of these!

We have a team of 25+ artists and animators of various skillsets, and a core of about 4 Lead Artists/Lead Animators who are our bedrock in terms of expertise and input on the team.

That said, since we've been a passion project for so many years and these 4 magnificent individuals have IRL stuff to deal with, it has usually been a rotation of a few of them being present to oversee things at once.

And while all of them of them can produce breathtaking results with regards to the art and animation, we could really use another individual who is familiar with the nuances of an animation pipeline, and is able to juggle the demands with overseeing the day-to-day management of an entire team or department of artists and animators, including various tasks such as DM check-ins, progress management, holding voice chat meetings, quality assurance, etc.

Even if you are not adept with the animation style of the Spectacular Spider-Man at the moment, deferring to our veteran leads for the quality assurance portion of this role as needed is absolutely possible.

However, a MASSIVE plus here would be submitting an audition with both:
- a finished animation sample (made on a team or individually), and

- a voice message and/or list of your prior work and background experience

While this role would not be paid at the beginning, we are working to get more of our Leads' time by paying them once crowdfunding is a-go and this would be an extension of that as well. 

DISCLAIMER: READ THE ENTIRE DESCRIPTION BELOW AND DETERMINE WHETHER THIS ROLE FITS YOUR SKILLSET AND EXPERIENCE BEFORE APPLYING. We will not consider anybody from Instagram or other social media who are fans of Spider-Man or SSM and simply saw our project, got excited, and "wanted to help out in any way they could" ;P While we are absolutely grateful of support like this, simply being a fan of SSM is not enough for a role of this magnitude. We need those with experience and drive here for sure.

We are looking for additional organized and responsible hands who are willing to do some of the more "managerial" side of production, which can include any number of tasks that our producers/execs normally undertake.

Having prior experience with overseeing other productions or projects is something we'd be very keen on with this role, and being proficient with the more "nitty gritty" tasks would be huge here as well.

Something our team could also potentially use is further knowledge with building or maintaining "team culture" in a virtual environment, as we have our own methods that we've developed over time but would be very open to additional insight. Though, this is not necessarily a mandatory thing.

Because of the importance and higher-up nature of a role like this, building trust with the current management staff will be king with whomever would take on this role, as we have a team of producers in place that has been around for a few years, and welcoming newcomers into this kind of fold will likely be a slow process. But as trust is built, confidence is built as well :D

Lastly, this role is not a "creative" one in any general sense. Our producers on the writing team oversee the direction that the project goes in narratively, our voice directing producers handle castings and voice direction, and our producers that are artist/animator leaders will oversee the visual aspects of the production.  

Normally, people will have a certain niche expertise in one of the usual fields for animation production where they developed management experience over top of it, and that original expertise will be immensely helpful in addition to the skills we're looking for in this role.
That said, decisions on the creative direction of the project aren't something that we're looking for in this role. If you happen to pitch something, it will obviously be considered and might even be used! But at the same time, compromise is key on a team of our size, and something that you specifically would want to see in the show won't necessarily be something that the writers have in mind or that the original writers Greg Weisman and Victor Cook intended.  

Various tasks for this kind of role can include (but are absolutely not limited to): 

- DMing team members for regular check-ins, whether it be for a department or on a certain task

- Overseeing announcements to team members

- Monitoring progress of various departments

- Drafting documents or spreadsheets for different plans or tracking progress of team members

- scheduling and hosting various team meetings, especially with a huge variety of team members' time zones kept in mind

- Potential social media tasks or management if that is a strength

BE SURE TO SUBMIT A VOICE MESSAGE DOWN BELOW INTRODUCING YOURSELF AND LISTING OUT YOUR EXPERIENCE AND WHAT YOU'D BE PROFICIENT AT, THANKS EVERYBODY IN ADVANCE :D

Animators on our project largely plan to use ToonBoom Harmony and ToonBoom Storyboard Pro as the main programs, but as long as the assets that are produced by our animators are able to be converted and utilized later on for the project, any program you prefer should work as long as we sort out the conversion details beforehand for consistency, flow, and Quality Assurance purposes! 

Also, if any chosen newcomers are unsure of how to use ToonBoom or want to learn how to use it, our lead animators can absolutely help bring them up to speed on the software and teach them the basics of it as well! 

In short, no worries if you're inexperienced or unfamiliar with the program! DM us for more details on this for sure if you have questions.

We are currently in progress on storyboarding our movie, so if that is a strength of yours, make sure to audition!!

For any other questions, make sure to send us a message on here or on Instagram. Thanks!!

Animators on our project largely plan to use ToonBoom Harmony and ToonBoom Storyboard Pro as the main programs, but as long as the assets that are produced by our animators are able to be converted and utilized later on for the project, any program you prefer should work as long as we sort out the conversion details beforehand for consistency, flow, and Quality Assurance purposes!

Also, if any of our newcomers are unsure of how to use ToonBoom or want to learn how to use it, our lead animators can absolutely help bring them up to speed on the software and teach them the basics of it if needed as well!

In short, no worries if you're inexperienced or unfamiliar with the program! DM us for more details on this for sure if you have questions.

We are currently in progress on storyboarding our movie, so if that is a strength of yours, make sure to audition!!

For any other questions, make sure to send us a message on here or on Instagram. Thanks!!