Well, as I mentioned in my last post, I'm kind of swamped developing the game's enginge, characters, storyline, battle system, and so on and so forth. Luckily, I have virtually all the .MOD's I'll need. ^_^ So I'm... umm... 1% complete. :p

Anyway, I came to a little epiphany when christmas break began, and that is that I'm going to have to ask for help on my project. Now with the artist reason for posting, I have asked for magic artists in the past without much luck, and animators for my characters, but I guess no one wants a degrading position. ^_^ So, here's what I'm looking for... an anime-style artist to do the portraits of characters for ingame chat, and also fullbody poses of their various "classes" that they can change into during the game. Around 20 playable characters, and speech portraits of characters that are "important", mean that there will be a lot, but I want to have a single artist remain consistent. Any other work you can volunteer for is well appreciated, because I'm not a phenominal artist, and only recently have begun to master CHRs (other than animating'em. :p), but you will of course get full credit, the knowledge that this project has been worked on for 4 years, and that it's not going to ever cancel, and also that you won't ever really be pressured into a due date, since there are so many areas being worked on by me that it'll be a while. Also, the other thing I need is....

A tile artist. Or multiple ones if there are that many good, but bored artists seeking a project. I've designed all the world basically, and have mapped out towns and locations, dungeon layouts, and so forth that would bring us up to about the 2nd demo (33% of the overall game, 10 or so hours of gameplay). Then something happens and the world layout changes, so I have yet to design that particular area of the game, I've got only storyline for it. I think I've posted the overall look of the Earth Valley, which is the first overworld map the player is given, which in itself is about 1/25th of the overall world. (I guess the best way to picture this is think of how big Midgar is, yet it's only 1 piece of the overall world, though you spend an hour or 2 in it. This example comes from FF7). He/she who applies for this job is in about the same position as the one above, there's a lot to do, but no time constraint to complete it in, since we all know not being paid for this makes real life issues far more important.

So, there you have it all. Anyone interested in knowing more about the project, knowing anything else about the positions, to apply, or submit artwork, or just give a hello, feel free to respond here or send an email to BladeDragon@netscape.net

Thanks to all who read and/or apply.

~Blade Dragon

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