I am very impressed with the level of sophistication of the art on PixelJoint.com. I am looking for an outstanding artist to create sprites for a 2D side-view video game. I hope to contact a few artists personally and this is also a great avenue to ask for help.

My name is Sherman Crabb. I am a C++ programmer and have recently graduated with a degree in business administration specializing in starting businesses (Entrepreneurship). I am finishing a game project that I started in college and I am at the stage where I need the final artwork finished to do the final animation sequences. I have completed many programming projects including GUIs for windows applications and database creation. As far as game programming, I’ve completed particle engines, AI, and, this is my first complete game project. I have recently founded TKS Gameware as a business heading under which to pursue the project. The website for the business does not exist yet.

Your portfolio is your resume. No qualifications need to be met, per se. Results and artist ability is what matters.

As far as compensation and creative control:  This game is near completion and has already gone through the concept phase. So the artwork would have to sync with the existing theme and tone of the game. The project name is SpaceHaven, and the story line is the player is clearing out an area in space so a colony can be established. This game is only the clearing out phase. After a successful collaboration, on the next game, you could have significant creative input from the beginning.

As far as payment for services is concerned, I’m thinking $hundreds on this project, $thousands on the next, and by the third hopefully we have a long term business relationship and we’ll be talking about professional level salaries. We can negotiate this. The first project will probably boil down to you selling me the rights to the artwork so I can use it in the game. Please, understand this is a startup company and funds are very limited until revenue is generated from the first game. Publishing the game to all platforms possible is the marketing plan.

I have existing sprites I have been testing with, I can send these to the artist to establish perspective for the artwork. Hopeful some artist already has art completed that can be utilized.

I am looking to build a long-term relationship with one or maybe a few outstanding artists. This will be a fun collaboration.

 

Sincerely,

 

Sherman Crabb

shermancrabb@gmail.com