! HIRING ! -- 1 certist, colorists -- closes May 31st!

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In the wake of a renewed activity, we're hoping to pick up a few more members of our staff to keep up with the demand for kin and to make this community a fun place to play!

At this time, we're hiring one certist who will help us get our pet certs up to date, and potentially a colorist or two, depending on what we see in the apps!

All colorists hired from this thread will start as Guest Colorists, with the possibility to become full time later. This means they will make very simple Kimeti for flatsales or do very simple breedings. All Guest Colorist work must be approved before it is sent out, and Guest Colorists cannot do official edited work. Sometimes, Guest Colorists might be asked to contribute to major thread events, submitting on-theme pets for contests, raffles, dice games, or freebies. They will receive all profits for their work, as well as staff credits that can be applied toward free pets/kin.

In the following posts, we will offer tools necessary for applying to join our team.

Hiring will be open until May 31st, but we'll be hiring on a rolling basis, as applicants seem appropriate!  

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Colorist Hiring

For the purpose of hiring, we're offering up three templates for you to play with: The Buck, the Filly, and the Moth. Click their images below to download them for use:

These templates are very different from what most b/c artists are used to: they do not merely use shading and multiply layers. Instead, layers must be recolored by hand and markings applied either with masks or the eraser tool. As such, we strongly suggest you have either photoshop though paint shop pro or the GIMP may work as well.

More information about how to use the templates can be found in this post in our long-closed Color Your Own Event, where we go into the methods we use. You can also watch this stream by blue of how she works, step by step, or any of her videos on livestream.

It is important that you pick colors by hand and use our method.

It is impossible to get breedings to look right using the classic B/C templated multiply layers method, so you must play with layer masks to be a colorist at Matope!

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In order to apply, you must take the templates above, and make at least three samples, minimum two of which should be kin.

In addition, if you're interested in being able to do breedings, we request that you pick one of the pairings below and create at least two offspring, combining traits from the parents:

Breathless x Birchbone
Flower Eater x Green Sun
Shadowstorm x Soft as Thunder

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When you're ready to apply, please fill out and post the following form.
Please do not post it until you have completed samples.

[size=18][b][color=blue]! COLORIST APPLICATION ![/color][/b][/size]
[b]Your username:[/b]
[b]Do you have AIM, or another messenger?[/b] Please specify what kind; communication is important.
[b]Other shops where you work:[/b]
[b]Other related experience:[/b]
[b]Do you have reliable internet?[/b]
[b]Are you familiar with Matope?[/b]
[b]Samples:[/b] At least three.
[b]Sample breeding:[/b] Please do a sample unedited breeding of at least two [2] kimeti, from one of the couples above.

Please note: if you have previously applied, I strongly suggest you submit new samples!
This is a new opportunity to be looked at with fresh eyes.  

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Certist Hiring

We're hiring a certist. This person's duties would be, essentially, pet certs, though there might be some filling in if we fall behind in kin.

In order to be considered for this position, you must know Matope, be regularly online, have AIM, skype, Gtalk, or other methods of IMing, and must be able to edit photoshop documents!

If you're interested in applying, please take the form below and post it in this thread.

[b]Your Username:[/b]
[b]What messenger do you have?[/b] AIM, skype, etc.
[b]How often are you online?[/b]
[b]What version of photoshop do you have?[/b]
[b]How much photoshop experience do you have?[/b]
[b]Where else do you currently work?[/b]
[b]What other certing experience do you have?[/b]

 

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Matope Satisfaction Survey

In addition to the hiring, above, we're running a small user satisfaction survey in an attempt to find out what you like about Matope, what you don't like so much about Matope, and what you'd like to see more of in the future! This poll is completely anonymous, so don't be afraid to be completely truthful.

Please do fill it out, even if your answers are very brief, so that we can keep this community active and fun!

You can find the poll here, on Survey Monkey.  

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