I recently had a client who wanted me to do animation for a game he's producing. I figured, no problem, I'll follow the character designs and get paid. YAY
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I went through almost this exact same thing with an illustration job I was going for. It was several years back, and a guy posted on guru that he needed some manga-style illustrations for his company. So I contacted him. I asked if he could clarify what sort of "anime/manga" style he was looking for, since naturally that's a broad description. He said he wanted something "shoujo, like Clamp". I contacted him again, and included several samples of my work (all very "girl comic" in feel). He wrote back and said he was looking for something tighter, "more polished". I noticed that his ad was up there for quite a while after this, still looking for an artist. Now we all know how many anime/manga style artists are competing for jobs. I can't imagine that with a request for "manga anime style artist wanted" he wasn't getting more than a few interested applicants, so why was it taking so long for him to find an artist to fill his needs? Could it be that he was throwing around "shoujo" and "Clamp", without really knowing what sort
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