Artist for an educational game on the Earth
Hi,
I am new here in the forums, but have been using this website for a long time to get some art for my video games. I am currently still in school and this is a big project for me, as it will be played next year by the new students. The game is about Earth and Geology, we already have an art person on the team but he also agreed that we will need someone a bit more professional. I am looking for someone who can make some good art, and also be able to make frames so that we can use it for animations. I am sorry, as I cannot pay you any money, but I will put you in the credits for sure (if that helps).
If you are interested, please email me at dasa@asbindia.org, and I will give you more details about what I will require from you. Oh, and also, I am sorry to you guys who want to see some images of the game, as I cannot put any up yet. One thing I will say, is that after you sign up, I will send you a copy of what I am working on so that you can see what art needs to be done yourself (although I will tell you about everything else).
You're going to need to be a lot more specific about what you need to get an artist interested. I'm a geology major getting ready to graduate this May so I obviously have a lot of interest in the subject matter, but I would have no idea whether the type of art I do (pixel art) would be of any use to your project (a moot point in my case since I don't have the time either way, but you get the point). "Good art" is incredibly vague, as is "able to make frames." Since you can't compensate the artist you'll need to compensate by making it as easy and smooth as possible for an artist to contribute. An artist might do some drawing for an educational game for kicks, but that's because arting is fun. The logistics of determining formatting, resolution and other such details is generally less fun, so it would behoove you to take care of that stuff yourself.
You really need to give a good idea of the scope of the project too. If it's a few quick things you're a lot more likely to have luck than if it's a huge chunk of work that's going to take a whole lot of someone's time.
Another thing you should probably mention is the licensing status of the game. If it's going to be an open-source resource that allows teaching the earth sciences in general to be easier it may be more appealing than if it's going to be restricted to one site.
It's also odd that you can't put up images of the game, though it's good that you mention it. Being able to do that would likely help a lot, at the very least in establishing answers to some of the above questions.
Anyway, good luck--for obvious reasons I hope you're successful in this.
Hi, thanks for such a detailed comment. I appreciate it.
The reason I am doing this project is because the teacher thought that the best way for me to learn, would be to form all of our learning into a video game which could be played by the other students.
We hadn't really put any details into what "good art" means, but pixel art would be awesome (if your interested). By me saying "able to make frames" I had meant to follow up the "Good Art" so I could get animations into the game.
The stuff I wanted the "artist" to do, was to get me a few character sprites with frames to accompany it, so I could put it into the game. We already have an artist on our team, but even he agreed that we will need some help, as all of us are still in Middle School, and we aren't really good at making art on a computer.
Currently, the game is just for our school, but if the Principal and Super-intendent allows us, we can make it a big open source game for all schools and colleges.
The reason I couldn't put in any images at the time was because we were stilling getting some stuff done. Later on, I may just upload a demo version to this forum and you guys can try it out. There are 2 pics of the game in it's current state which are attached. As you can see, there is a lot of work to be done, but we are getting all of the scenery pieces done (the current scenery is all placeholder art by me).
I hope the images help, and maybe if I finish off with the menu system, I can upload it onto the forum.