Edward Kann@StoryART
First Post
StoryART Games is currently accepting manuscripts and reviewing portfolios for the following paid - contracted positions.
Fantasy Cartographer
Science Fiction Cartographer
Story Assistant Writer - Fantasy
Story Assistant Writer - Science Fiction
Illustrator - Strength is Storyboards / Panels Pro. Comics experience helpful.
Illustrator - Strength is Character Concept Work, Portraits and Wardrobe
Illustrator - Strength is Scenery from Fantasy to Science Fiction
Professional small start up company with full time staff is looking for some part time contractors to pick up the slack. We run a tight ship and have a hard nosed production and project manager. Please only email or post interest if you can turn around assigned projects in a reasonable time frame. If you are kinda sorta wondering about trying this out this is not for you.
I will try to answer some of the questions I most often see posted here proactively.
How much do we pay?
Payment covers an enormous amount of ground depending on whether we are purchasing the rights and the original for a piece of artwork, say in color by an artist with considerable industry experience as opposed to a spot piece of black and white work where we only purchase the rights to publish it inside our books / use it on our website for marketing etc...
Can you give me an idea of how much this is?
Sure. We have paid artists as low as $40.00 for a very simple item. Let's say we hire an artist to perform illustrations for borders, page numbers and other decorative pieces parts for a book. Our creative team puts their heads together and we spec. out say a package of ten different pieces that will be combined to create the borders and decorative bits. The most simple of those pieces in black and white we have paid $40.00 for. The entire body of work however, all ten pieces combined in this particular case earned the artist around $650.00. This was all black and white interior line art.
What about more complex stuff? Well really the price is negotiated and put into a contract. There are a fair number of variables involved. Are you a named industry artist? Will the presence of your artwork as a cover or as a featured artist on the project = book sales later on? Will you generate enthusiasm with other potential artists by having you on the team? How many pieces do we agree for you to do. There is a little bit of a trade off between quantity and steadiness of work and pay per piece.
What is the highest we've paid for artwork on our current projects?
That, my friend is something that I won't be discussing. What I can tell you however is that we are a start-up and that while we have a real art budget and real start up capital we aren't making the big bucks. Will we be spending money on art for each book in our release schedule? Absolutely. Should you quit your day job right now? LOL.
Our company website will be going live next week. That will hopefully generate some additional buzz and interest. We have a core crew that has been working on the projects for about four months now.
So we are brand spanking new. Newbie, newbie new. Is it risk to start up a company? Yes it absolutely is. Could all our books flop? Yep. They could flop spectacularly.
However our project manager has promised to destroy the universe if this happens so we are not worried. In all seriousness we have all been working very hard on this. Our books will be rather nice.
What do I do if I'm interested?
If you email me with interest in a position please do me the courtesy of providing me with some basics. Your real name for starters. Ultimately if you come on board you and I will be talking directly a great deal. Either in emails, on the telephone, in conference calls, etc...
I will not bother reading writing submissions and samples, or review portfolios from anonymous sources. Please give me a day or two to respond to your email or your post. I will try to respond to everyone as soon as I can.
Do writers and artists work under a contract?
Yes. Nobody touches our projects without an NDA (Non Disclosure Agreement) and agreed terms for payment, ownership, rights of use, etc.. All pretty standard industry stuff really.
How old do I have to be?
Frankly if you are under 18 I can't hire you. If you are over 18, mature, reliable, can meet deadlines and talented lets talk. If you are under 18 we have a possibility for an intern position in 2005 but it absolutely requires parental approval. Please hold off on intern requests until I post for them.
How big is your staff?
We currently have, at last count, 16 people working on our projects. That includes some play-tester folks, artists, writers, an editor or two, artists and that hard arse project manager guy.
Do we have a big fancy cool office?
Heck no. We are burning our life savings away like the crazy fools that we are, going for that dream of doing the job we've always wanted to do. Which is create games, books and comic book materials for publication. All of us work from home. Most of us have day jobs.
How much work is there?
Do you have the creative skills of a Leonardo? Can you draw and paint like a pre-Raphaelite master? Are you a god with photoshop? Can you write like Jules Verne? Great! I've got a project with your name on it!
Can you keep a deadline? Even better.
Are you all of these things with no life and only the crazy foolish ambition to create games, book and comic materials? I can positively crush the life out of you with work.![:]](http://www.enworld.org/forum/images/smilies/devious.png "Devious :]")
What happens if I miss deadlines?
That depends on what we're talking about. Generally speaking we try to work with folks as much as we can. We have paid bonuses to artists for finishing ahead of schedule. This doesn't mean that you are guaranteed a bonus if you turn in your work ahead of time but it IS something that we've done before on our current projects. Have we gently booted people off the project who are mister of miss enthusiasm during the first week but never turn in a stitch of work, not even a rough draft? Yes. Sadly this happens more often than you would ever guess with new / bright / shiny / enthusiastic artists and writers. That is why I harp on whether you can keep a schedule or deadline as being important.
Ok its almost 3:00 am here. Which means I get to wrap up MY work day in another hour.
Post here or email me if you have an interest.
Edward Kann
StoryART Games
edward_kann@yahoo.com
Company email will be up when our website goes live. I will be reachable at that point at edwardkann@storyartgames.com.
Fantasy Cartographer
Science Fiction Cartographer
Story Assistant Writer - Fantasy
Story Assistant Writer - Science Fiction
Illustrator - Strength is Storyboards / Panels Pro. Comics experience helpful.
Illustrator - Strength is Character Concept Work, Portraits and Wardrobe
Illustrator - Strength is Scenery from Fantasy to Science Fiction
Professional small start up company with full time staff is looking for some part time contractors to pick up the slack. We run a tight ship and have a hard nosed production and project manager. Please only email or post interest if you can turn around assigned projects in a reasonable time frame. If you are kinda sorta wondering about trying this out this is not for you.
I will try to answer some of the questions I most often see posted here proactively.
How much do we pay?
Payment covers an enormous amount of ground depending on whether we are purchasing the rights and the original for a piece of artwork, say in color by an artist with considerable industry experience as opposed to a spot piece of black and white work where we only purchase the rights to publish it inside our books / use it on our website for marketing etc...
Can you give me an idea of how much this is?
Sure. We have paid artists as low as $40.00 for a very simple item. Let's say we hire an artist to perform illustrations for borders, page numbers and other decorative pieces parts for a book. Our creative team puts their heads together and we spec. out say a package of ten different pieces that will be combined to create the borders and decorative bits. The most simple of those pieces in black and white we have paid $40.00 for. The entire body of work however, all ten pieces combined in this particular case earned the artist around $650.00. This was all black and white interior line art.
What about more complex stuff? Well really the price is negotiated and put into a contract. There are a fair number of variables involved. Are you a named industry artist? Will the presence of your artwork as a cover or as a featured artist on the project = book sales later on? Will you generate enthusiasm with other potential artists by having you on the team? How many pieces do we agree for you to do. There is a little bit of a trade off between quantity and steadiness of work and pay per piece.
What is the highest we've paid for artwork on our current projects?
That, my friend is something that I won't be discussing. What I can tell you however is that we are a start-up and that while we have a real art budget and real start up capital we aren't making the big bucks. Will we be spending money on art for each book in our release schedule? Absolutely. Should you quit your day job right now? LOL.
Our company website will be going live next week. That will hopefully generate some additional buzz and interest. We have a core crew that has been working on the projects for about four months now.
So we are brand spanking new. Newbie, newbie new. Is it risk to start up a company? Yes it absolutely is. Could all our books flop? Yep. They could flop spectacularly.
However our project manager has promised to destroy the universe if this happens so we are not worried. In all seriousness we have all been working very hard on this. Our books will be rather nice.What do I do if I'm interested?
If you email me with interest in a position please do me the courtesy of providing me with some basics. Your real name for starters. Ultimately if you come on board you and I will be talking directly a great deal. Either in emails, on the telephone, in conference calls, etc...
I will not bother reading writing submissions and samples, or review portfolios from anonymous sources. Please give me a day or two to respond to your email or your post. I will try to respond to everyone as soon as I can.
Do writers and artists work under a contract?
Yes. Nobody touches our projects without an NDA (Non Disclosure Agreement) and agreed terms for payment, ownership, rights of use, etc.. All pretty standard industry stuff really.
How old do I have to be?
Frankly if you are under 18 I can't hire you. If you are over 18, mature, reliable, can meet deadlines and talented lets talk. If you are under 18 we have a possibility for an intern position in 2005 but it absolutely requires parental approval. Please hold off on intern requests until I post for them.
How big is your staff?
We currently have, at last count, 16 people working on our projects. That includes some play-tester folks, artists, writers, an editor or two, artists and that hard arse project manager guy.
Do we have a big fancy cool office?
Heck no. We are burning our life savings away like the crazy fools that we are, going for that dream of doing the job we've always wanted to do. Which is create games, books and comic book materials for publication. All of us work from home. Most of us have day jobs.
How much work is there?
Do you have the creative skills of a Leonardo? Can you draw and paint like a pre-Raphaelite master? Are you a god with photoshop? Can you write like Jules Verne? Great! I've got a project with your name on it!
Can you keep a deadline? Even better.
Are you all of these things with no life and only the crazy foolish ambition to create games, book and comic materials? I can positively crush the life out of you with work.
What happens if I miss deadlines?
That depends on what we're talking about. Generally speaking we try to work with folks as much as we can. We have paid bonuses to artists for finishing ahead of schedule. This doesn't mean that you are guaranteed a bonus if you turn in your work ahead of time but it IS something that we've done before on our current projects. Have we gently booted people off the project who are mister of miss enthusiasm during the first week but never turn in a stitch of work, not even a rough draft? Yes. Sadly this happens more often than you would ever guess with new / bright / shiny / enthusiastic artists and writers. That is why I harp on whether you can keep a schedule or deadline as being important.
Ok its almost 3:00 am here. Which means I get to wrap up MY work day in another hour.
Post here or email me if you have an interest.
Edward Kann
StoryART Games
edward_kann@yahoo.com
Company email will be up when our website goes live. I will be reachable at that point at edwardkann@storyartgames.com.
I think I've invested something like fifty or seventy hours of work just into pouring over books of statues and religious icons to help in working up our own fantasy art history.
