The Hiring Process...Interview Questions....

A: Do I like you. Do YOU like ME? Can you DRAW like me?

B: Can you work for free until there actually is any money? (honestly, I don't know why this question in particular gets some young and inexperienced artists so riled up. I worked on a TV show, in what was essentially an intern like position contributing writing content, wasn't paid a dime when I worked for a famous anime dubbing studio, And I've had voice actors do readthroughs for one project of mine and they didn't ask for anything in return. He just thought it was a cool thing to do, and it was!, but for the show I wrote for, my name went into the credits, as does any intern get their name credited onscreen who usually worked for no pay. This is "suprisingly" common in the broadcasting industry. Experience can lead to money. Or at least lasting work in the beginning, and a killer demo reel.

C: Do you love anime and animation and/or comics?

D: Do you know how to format a script or be an art director/voice actor?

These are the types of things you ask people you hire.

Surely there must be some college art and animation school majors interested in learning the ropes of storybaording, writing for animation, production theory and tactics, and business administration, from an animation studio standpoint. Central Florida's not THAT bad of a place to live. We have good burgers and radio.

Anyway, yeah, starting my own production studio might actually work out if I save up some money to fund it. But I'm going to need to eventually interview and hire some writers, animators, and suits. Maybe some art directors and storyboarders, if I'm not already doing half those production jobs myself.

But yeah, I definitely wanna hire co-producers at some point, hopefully ones who understand the Euro and Pan-Asian markets and their growing lists of potential clients. I could also use some form of an organized support team research and writing staff. I'm really gung ho about starting up an operation. Maybe start as an indie comics manga operation and expand outward into TV Pilots at some point, assuming we ever get the budget to handle such an undertaking. We don't discriminate. Can't afford to.

JM (aka James A.)
Unnamed Company
Gmail: spindack@gmail.com
Twitter: @ManjiBlade