Subject: [PAID] Animator Needed

MJamesShort wrote

Greetings!

We're working on the alpha of our new game (consoles/pc) and have decided to use Spine as our animation system. Neither the artist or myself (designer/programmer) have used Spine before and we're struggling to understand how best to get the artists art represented accurately in Spine.

I'm looking to contract an expert Spine animator to do the following:

• Help us figure out the best way to slice and export the artists art for rigging in Spine

• Help us understand skins in Spine

• Rig five characters in Spine

• Complete the following seven animations for each rigged character

** Idle

** Attack

** Hit

** Preparing to attack

** Casting a buff

** Receiving a buff

** Dying

Looking for expert Spine animators with a good portfolio that have preferably worked on a shipped product.

Send your portfolio and hourly rate to:

• This post

• Message me

• MJamesShort#1920 (Discord)

• DM me on Twitter: MJamesShort

Thanks in advance!

Hey M James,
I am responding to your post on the Spine forums. My name is Richmond and I’m the co-founder of Bit Egg Inc. We are one of the most experienced Spine animation studios in the world with years of experience creating work for top console and mobile games. We have over a dozen artists experienced in rigging, skinning and animating in Spine ready to help you scale up your production.

Here’s our portfolio and a more detailed description of our services.
https://bit.ly/2Rir5i4

Our regular rate is $30/hour. Please keep in mind that we’re very fast and very reliable.

I’m confident that we’ll be able to help you ship your game. The types of animations you need are precisely the kinds of animations we’ve provided for other studios. We also have experience creating skins in Spine.

We’d be happy to do a free test for you. This is the best way for us to show you what we can do and also give you a very accurate cost estimate for future work.

Let me know if you’d like to do a call. You can add me on Skype at:
Richmond.lee

You can email us at:
Services (@) bitegginc.com

Best,
Richmond

Hi Matt,
Thanks so much for your help! We're open to doing smaller scale projects and if they like our work, they can scale things up from there. Also thanks, we pride ourselves on good communication. Stephen is born and raised in the US. I moved over there when I was 5, but English is definitely my best language now. Stephen was actually an English major so I hope his English is particularly good haha.

I'm totally based out of Thailand now though. Let me know if you ever plan to visit Thailand. I'd be happy to give you tips for your trip, and if you come to Chiang Mai we can grab a good meal together. We'll feast like kings! :9

Have a good one!

Hey Emjay, I just sent you a PM.
I have a lot of experience working with a similar process converting traditional animations done in Toon Boom to Spine. Stepped animations and everything! (That's a must! It's a tragedy when nice skeletal animations are over-tweened!)

Thanks for sharing this opportunity! Good looking out!

Hey Emjay, I just sent you a PM.
I have a lot of experience working with a similar process converting traditional animations done in Toon Boom to Spine. Stepped animations and everything! (That's a must! It's a tragedy when nice skeletal animations are over-tweened!)

Thanks for sharing this opportunity! Good looking out!

Hi EmJay!

My name is Richmond and I run a Game Dev and outsourcing studio called Bit Egg. We specialize in the exact kind of work you're describing. Like, right down to converting traditional animations from Toon Boom to Spine! And yes, with stepped frames and everything! This is something we have a lot of experience in.

We decided to specialize in Spine years ago and now we've grown to a team of 12+ artists capable of making game ready spine rigs and animations. Our clients are typically established game companies with well loved original IPs. We work hard to uphold their exacting in-house style allowing our clients to scale up production without sacrificing quality. We've done a ton of interesting work for awesome studios like Lab Zero (Skull Girls, Indivisible) who had this to say about our work:

"Richmond and the team at BitEgg have been instrumental in helping our team create high-quality assets and animations that we can rely on. The quality of their work and the speed at which they deliver has been exceptional and we are looking forward to continuing to work with them on the development of our project."
-Francesca Esquenazi,
CEO
Lab Zero Games

Our work is some of the best in the industry, our rates are competitive and we pride ourselves on clear and timely communication.

Here is our portfolio along with a more detailed description of our services:
https://goo.gl/BXet54

Here's my Skype:
richmond.lee

For business inquiries please email us at:
Services (@) bitegginc.com

Please feel free to pass all this information on to anyone that could benefit from our services. Thanks for your time. Really appreciate you looking out for other artists like this! Have a good one!

Subject: Spine Animator Needed [Harmony to Spine]

Emjay wrote

Hello, fellow Spine-imators!

I've recently secured full time work, so I'm helping one of my part time clients find a suitable replacement animator to take over.

The client is Relish Interactive.

I've worked with them for the past two years, so I know they could offer a consistent stream of good work, and they're a pleasant bunch to work with.

For my recommendation, I'm looking for someone who is a clear communicator with an eye for detail. Much of the current work involves carefully converting Toon Boom Harmony rigs to Spine, then replicating the reference cartoon's animation style in Spine. Here is one example of a property like that, which you would be working on.

I'll be creating documentation to walk the new animator through my process for moving from Harmony to Spine, so the most important factor is that you be able to analyze the source material and recreate its animation style well with Spine.

In particular, this involves limiting the frame rate and using stepped keys to avoid interpolation, so the end result plays back more like frame-by-frame animation.

Relish will have plenty of other work which don't require this pseudo-frame-based animation style, but the main projects you would be working with to start both rely heavily upon it, so it's important that I find someone who would feel comfortable working that way.

If you're interested, please share your reel here or via PM and I'll pass the most well-suited candidates along to Relish with my recommendation. Thanks, everyone!

I just sent you a PM. Just wanted to give you a heads up.
Have a good day!

Hello,
My name is Richmond and I run a Game Dev and Art Outsourcing studio called Bit Egg. We specialize in Spine and Unity and have 12+ animators who are capable of producing high quality, game ready Spine rigs and animations. Our clients are typically established game companies with a hardcore fanbase for their original IPs. We work hard to uphold the in-house art style that their fans have come to love, allowing them to scale up production without sacrificing quality.

We recently completed over 200 characters for LabZero for their upcoming 2d action RPG, Indivisible. Here's what they had to say about us:

"Richmond and the team at BitEgg have been instrumental in helping our team create high-quality assets and animations that we can rely on. The quality of their work and the speed at which they deliver has been exceptional and we are looking forward to continuing to work with them on the development of our project."

Our work is some of the best in the industry, our rates are competitive and we pride ourselves on clear and timely communication.

Here is our portfolio along with a more detailed description of our services:
https://goo.gl/BXet54

Rate:
$25-30/hr for Spine animation, depending on complexity and project size

If you're interested, I'd be happy to do a call, learn more about your project, and follow up with an estimate for the work that you need.

Here's my Skype:
richmond.lee

For business inquiries please email us at:
Services (@) bitegginc.com

Thanks for your time. Have a good one!

Subject: Looking for 2D Animator and artists for 2D Beat em Up (PAID)

VenenumUmbra wrote

Hi currently looking for Animators and artist's for a 2D beat em up looking to use spine we are also using gamemaker for the engine

We are after animators who can do this sought of style
ref 1: Furious Jack Trailer - YouTube
ref 2 Streets Of Rage 4 - Gameplay Trailer - YouTube

Thanks for your time.

Thanks for your quick response. Please keep us in mind for the future. Take care!

Hello,
I tried applying for this job, but the listing was closed on that website. I thought I would try my luck here anyhow. I hope you don't mind!

My name is Richmond and I run a Game Dev and Art Outsourcing studio called Bit Egg. We specialize in Spine and Unity and have 10+ animators who are capable of producing high quality, game ready Spine rigs and animations. Our clients are typically established game companies with a hardcore fanbase for their original IPs. We work hard to uphold the in-house art style that their fans have come to love, allowing them to scale up production without sacrificing quality.

Our work is some of the best in the industry, our rates are competitive and we pride ourselves on clear and timely communication.

Here is our portfolio along with a more detailed description of our services:
https://goo.gl/BXet54

If you're interested, I'd be happy to do a call, learn more about your project, and follow up with an estimate for the work that you need.

Here's my Skype:
richmond.lee

For business inquiries please email us at:
Services (@) bitegginc.com

Thanks for your time. Have a good one!

Subject: [FREELANCE] Senior Animator for

Kadjurao wrote

We are a french compagny called Asmodee digital.
We make video games based on board games IP such as Catane, Carcassonne, Splendor, Ticket to Ride and Small World.

We are looking for a Spine Senior animator who can do realistic character animations based on illustrations that are not prepared for animation.
You will have to animate and prepare the face and torso of 14 characters.

Here some requirement:

• Realistic facial expression
  -Anatomy
  -Mesh deformation
  -Smooth animation
  -Really good communication
  -Digital Painting

We are looking for French and English speakers
You can work in our office in Paris or remotly.
If you are interested, please apply via this link:
( it's all in french sorry)

https://emploi.afjv.com/emploi-jeux-video/EINF838-15306

Hi Jan,
I saw that you are looking for people who can create Spine skins. That's something that I can definitely help you with. I run a Game Dev and Art Outsourcing studio called Bit Egg. We specialize in Spine and have 10+ animators with years of Spine experience who are capable of producing high quality, game ready Spine rigs and animations.

Our work is some of the best in the industry, our rates are competitive and we pride ourselves on clear and timely communication.

Here is our portfolio along with a more detailed description of our services:
https://goo.gl/BXet54

If you're interested, I'd be happy to do a call, learn more about your project, and follow up with an estimate for the work that you need.

Here's my Skype:
richmond.lee

You can email us at:
Services (@) bitegginc.com

Thanks for your time. Have a good one!

Subject: 2d animator for hire

JanZelinka wrote

I coultn'd send you PM. We have project available for Spine Skins animator.

registrace980 /a/ seznam /./ cz

Hey I just sent you a PM. My team has a lot of experience with Casino games. Hopefully we can help you out :yes:

Hello folks at Epochal Storm Games,
My name is Richmond and I run a Game Dev and Art Outsourcing studio called Bit Egg. We specialize in Spine and Unity and have 10+ animators who are capable of producing high quality, game ready Spine rigs and animations. We also have experience producing VR content. Our clients are typically established game companies with a hardcore fanbase for their original IPs. We work hard to uphold the in-house art style that their fans have come to love, allowing them to scale up production without sacrificing quality.

Our work is some of the best in the industry, our rates are competitive and we pride ourselves on clear and timely communication.

Here is our portfolio along with a more detailed description of our services:
https://goo.gl/BXet54

If you're interested, I'd be happy to do a call, learn more about your project, and follow up with an estimate for the work that you need.

Here's my Skype:
richmond.lee

You can also reach us via email at:
Services (@) bitegginc.com

Thanks for your time. Have a good one!

Subject: Looking for 2D Artist

EpochalstormGames wrote

Hello, we are a video game developer in Rome and we work with Unity3D.
We are looking for a 2D artist for a full time work at home, to work alongside our development team. The games currently in development are a card game and a casino game.

Responsibility:

• Design and creation of content for development, prototyping and marketing;
• Design of user interfaces (UI / UX);
• Creation of 2D Assets to be integrated in the games in production;
• 2D animation (via "Spine" or per pixel);
• Possible supervision of external collaborators;

Required skills:

• Minimum 3 years experience in developing apps and commercial games;
• Experience with tools such as Photoshop, Illustrator;
• Experience with the animation tool "Spine" (concept, realization and animation);
• Experience in UI / UX design and development
• A passion for video games;

Skills welcome:

• Knowledge of Unity3D;
• Knowledge of video editing software;

Availability is required for periodic meetings on design, development to be held through communication software.

If interested send a PM with attaching CV, portfolio (link to produced works or demo of realized projects).

A test and a trial period may be necessary depending on the portfolio assessment.

Thank you

Hello! I'm very interested in your project. I just sent you a PM. Please keep an eye out for it :yes:

Hello Mapablaza,
My name is Richmond and I run a Game Dev and Art Outsourcing studio called Bit Egg. We specialize in Spine and Unity and have 10+ animators who are capable of producing high quality, game ready Spine rigs and animations. Our clients are typically established game companies with a hardcore fanbase for their original IPs. We work hard to uphold the in-house art style that their fans have come to love, allowing them to scale up production without sacrificing quality.

Our work is some of the best in the industry, our rates are competitive and we pride ourselves on good communication.

Here is our portfolio along with a more detailed description of our services:
https://goo.gl/BXet54

If you're interested, I'd be happy to do a call, learn more about your project, and follow up with an estimate for the work that you need.

Here's my Skype:
richmond.lee

You can also email me at:
richmond (@) bitegginc.com

Thanks for your time. Have a good one!

Subject: Looking for onsite artist in Boston area

mapablaza wrote

Small mobile game company needs a Spine freelance artist for 3 months initially, to help with character setup, animation and implementation in engine for a game based on a well known IP.

Hello,
My name is Richmond and I run a Game Dev and Art Outsourcing studio called Bit Egg. We specialize in Spine and Unity and have 10+ animators who are capable of producing high quality, game ready Spine rigs and animations. Our clients are typically mature, medium sized game companies with a hardcore fanbase. We work hard to uphold their in-house art style that their fans have come to love.

Here is our portfolio (and a more detailed description of our services):
https://goo.gl/BXet54

If you're interested, I'd be happy to do a call, learn more about your project, and follow up with an estimate for the work that you need.

Here's my Skype:
richmond.lee

You can also email me at:
richmond (@) bitegginc.com

Thanks for your time. Have a good one!

Subject: Finding for 2D Spine Animation

RFzzZzz wrote

Hi All,

Our studio is currently looking for some additional 2D animators familiar with Spine for use on our new up and coming mobile game. Animators will need to be familiar with various animation processes including:

Image manipulation in Photoshop and prep work.
Spine 2D character rigging.
Bespoke animations in Spine in a 'mature' style.
Iteration and amendments based on feedback from the project Art Director.

Please feel free to email or message me on the forums.

Regards,

Fancy.

Subject: Spine project available in Hong Kong

mhkmickey wrote

We are looking for freelancers/studio to draw 3D style character for our game.

We prefer freelancers/studio in HK for sake of communication. This project timeline is 1-2 months

If you are interested, please leave your contact here or message me. I will send you requirements and scope of work.

Hello Mickey,

My name is Richmond and I run a Game Dev and Art Outsourcing studio called Bit Egg. We specialize in Spine and Unity and have 10+ animators who are capable of producing high quality, game ready Spine rigs and animations.

Here is our portfolio (and a more detailed description of our services):
https://goo.gl/BXet54

If you're interested, I'd be happy to do a call, learn more about your project, and follow up with an estimate for the work that you need. My studio is based in Thailand so there's only 1 hour time zone difference between us. Also my co-founder and I both speak Mandarin. We hope to hear from you soon.

Here's my Skype:
richmond.lee

You can also email me at:
richmond (@) bitegginc.com

Thanks for your time. Have a good one!

Subject: Searching for 8 - achsis Character Animator

phantomfox wrote

Hi there,
we are a very small indie game studio and currently working on our first interactive childrens book / indie game.
as we are just beginners in spine we can do most of rigging and animations by ourselves, but our main character, elo, is a little bit too tricky for us. so we are searching for an spine animator who has a very good knowledge how to rig an 8 directional character set up for walkcycling, mouth movements and body expressions. in the first place we need the 8-axes rig. maybe we can collect some money later this year at a kickstarter campaign for further animations and need. but for start it would help us a lot to have a veteran in spine rigging.
looking to hear from you.
pleas pm with pricing and some good examples of character rigs/movements.
thank you
daniel

EDIT: of course we have some money for this initial job. (8-achsis). with the kickstarter campaign we are hoping to gather some more to make further cooworking possible.

I just sent you a PM earlier with information about my studio. I noticed that the Spine forum automatically removes email information, so here it again:

richmond (@) bitegginc.com

Please let me know if there's anything we can do to help you finish your game :rock:
Have a good one!

Subject: Searching for 8 - achsis Character Animator

phantomfox wrote

Hi there,
we are a very small indie game studio and currently working on our first interactive childrens book / indie game.
as we are just beginners in spine we can do most of rigging and animations by ourselves, but our main character, elo, is a little bit too tricky for us. so we are searching for an spine animator who has a very good knowledge how to rig an 8 directional character set up for walkcycling, mouth movements and body expressions. in the first place we need the 8-axes rig. maybe we can collect some money later this year at a kickstarter campaign for further animations and need. but for start it would help us a lot to have a veteran in spine rigging.
looking to hear from you.
pleas pm with pricing and some good examples of character rigs/movements.
thank you
daniel

EDIT: of course we have some money for this initial job. (8-achsis). with the kickstarter campaign we are hoping to gather some more to make further cooworking possible.

Hello Phantomfox,

My name is Richmond and I run a Game Dev and Art Outsourcing studio called Bit Egg. We specialize in Spine and Unity and have 10+ animators who are capable of producing high quality, game ready Spine rigs and animations.

Here is our portfolio (and a more detailed description of our services):
https://goo.gl/BXet54

If you're interested, I'd be happy to do a call, learn more about your project, and follow up with an estimate for the work that you need.

Here's my Skype:
richmond.lee

You can also email me at:
<removed>

Thanks for your time. Have a good one!

Hi,

My name is Richmond and I run a Game Dev & Art Outsourcing studio called Bit Egg based out of Chiang Mai Thailand. We've got a team of 10+ animators with years of experience working in Spine and Unity.

You can see our portfolio here:
https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1tgORteO6oBMFfxFZzMfINZOuOzLuCNMHG8gNtWaVImg/edit#slide=id.p

We have experience making slots and Casino games. My co-founder and I actually launched one of the top Casino games on Facebook years ago before we founded our own company. This is an area that we have experience in.

I know your post was looking for a remote full-time worker, I just want to see if you'd like to contract some work out to an experienced team that can scale up to meet your project demands as needed.

We are fluent in English and proficient in Chinese.

If you're interested, let's do a call. Here is my skype:

richmond.lee

Please feel free to email me at:
richmondlee (@) bitegginc.com

Thanks for your time. Have a good one!

Subject: 2D Spine Animator/VFX @Playstudios x King - Full Time Remote

Playstudios_Orion wrote

Playstudios is in collaboration with King on https://www.royalcharmslots.com
We are looking to hire a 2D Spine Animator with excellent creative ability and knowledge of animation and VFX pipelines. This is a remote full-time position and you work from the comfort of your home.

Responsibilities:

• Animate characters and assets in Spine
• Animate dialogs and game features in AE for concept mockup
• Animate VFX in Spine and Unity(bonus)

As a 2D animator at Playstudios Orion, you will work closely with the Creative Director, design team, and programming team to lead the production and implementation of top quality animations for our existing games and future projects. As a vital member of the art team, you will provide insight and suggestions on how to raise the visual quality of our animations.

Requirements

• 1+ years in mobile game development as a spine animator
• Excellent animation ability using Spine
• Ability to work with both 2D and 3D assets effectively
• Fluent in English is a MUST
• Able to work 9-5 in the HK/ China timezone

Please send demo reels containing spine animations to my profile, if you do not have a demo reel of examples please do not apply you will not be considered.

We highly appreciate your interest in the position, but due to the volume of submissions, we will reach out to those selected for the interview process. Thank you.

Thanks Molly. Best of luck with your project!

Hi Holly,

I was wondering if you are still looking for experienced Spine animators for your project, and if so, if you'd be open to contracting out to my studio, Bit Egg.

We have 10+ animators who are very proficient with Spine. We've been using it ever since it was Kickstarted in 2013. It's one of my personal favorite programs to animate with.

Here's our portfolio:
https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1tgORteO6oBMFfxFZzMfINZOuOzLuCNMHG8gNtWaVImg/edit#slide=id.p

We also have extensive experience working in 3d.

Our team is based in Chiang Mai Thailand, but our co-founders are from the United States. Our office is bi-lingual and all communications would be with our co-founders, who are native English speakers, or our client account managers who have a very high life-long proficiency with English.

We would not be able to work on your exact 9-5 schedule, but we would make time for calls in your time zone when needed. The majority of our clients are based in North America and the time zone difference hasn't been an issue.

If this sounds interesting to you, let's do a call.
You reach me on Skype at:
richmond.lee

Here's my email:
richmond (@) bitegginc (dot) com

Thanks for your time.
Have a good one!

Subject: 2D Spine Animator - Remote Full Time

Holly Mellor wrote

Fox Cub Games is looking to hire a 2D Spine Animator with excellent creative ability and knowledge of animation pipelines. This is a remote full-time position and you work from the comfort of your home.

As a 2D animator at Fox Cub Games, you will work closely with the Art Director, design team, and programming team to lead the production and implementation of top quality animations for our existing games and future projects. As a vital member of the art team, you will provide insight and suggestions on how to raise the visual quality of our animations.

Requirements

-1+ years in mobile game development as a spine animator
-Excellent animation ability using Spine
-Ability to work with both 2D and 3D assets effectively
-Fluent in English is a MUST
-Able to work 9-5 in the PST timezone

Please send demo reels containing spine animations to my profile , if you do not have a demo reel of examples please do not apply you will not be considered.

We highly appreciate your interest in the position, but due to the volume of submissions, we will reach out to those selected for the interview process. Thank you.