Four short projects first, then the big one: the Mina Kuma animation team. All freelance, all remote, with scope and pay agreed before you start.
Rates are not a filter. They help us plan scenes and budgets honestly. Send a new email for each role, with the role and your name in the subject line.
All freelance and remote. For every role, scope and pay are agreed before you start.
Hand-drawn 2D effects for a short-term project: smoke, water, fire, magic, impacts, and the like. Freelance, paid per shot, with scope and pay agreed before you start.
2D FX — [Your Name]Design and paint finished backgrounds straight off the storyboard. Think high-end anime quality, in the spirit of The Legend of Vox Machina or The Mighty Nein. You take the board panel, lay out the environment, and carry it through to a fully painted background.
Background Artist (Design+Paint) — [Your Name]Painting only, layouts provided. Lush, Studio Ghibli-esque natural landscapes, skies, and glowing, magical effect backgrounds. Light and atmosphere are the whole job here.
Background Painter — [Your Name]One sequence, under five seconds, of animal character animation: quadruped or creature movement. Very short, very specific. Freelance, paid, with a clear brief and an agreed price before you start.
Animal Animator — [Your Name]We are expanding the Mina Kuma animation team: experienced animators who can work confidently in the Mina Kuma style, plus two junior animators we will train directly on the series. This one has its own page with the full process, the test assignment, and the downloadable kit.
Test deadline: October 23, 2026. Submissions go to contact@librarie.jp.
Mina Kuma Test — [Your Name]Animators, designers, painters, editors, composers, voice, translation. We read all of it.