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New grass roots Miniature Company is looking for free lance sculptors to submit concept work for an exciting new game currently in the preproduction faze. Game system is already built we need minis to represent our ideas. Even if you have no experience working for some of the big names our company is grass roots and we will give you a chance to show us your art. All serious entries will be considered. This post is deliberately vague. If you’re truly interested in sculpting miniatures please message me with contact information including stuff like email address, telephone number, and any websites that show your work you have done. I will then give you more information on the game concept and design. All entries will be kept confidential at this time. We are very real and already have backers to buy your concept miniatures designs. We will give credit to artist used and will contract those artists for future work. This is your chance to get on the ground level of a company.

 Devoted-to-the-machine wrote:
We are very real.

And we should take your word for it and provide you with our confidential data correct?

More info about your company please, links, company info etcetera etecetera

 Devoted-to-the-machine wrote:
This post is deliberately vague

Ah yes, that's how you rope in the potentials

Hopefully you get some takers off from what you have posted, but the word on the street is that right now - sculptors world wide are fairly well slammed for work. Between a lot of the big names being busy with their own projects and a lot of the little names moving up to fill their gaps in the ranks for established companies...it is a good time to work with putty.

If you don't get many takers though - what I have found works well in the past is to "cold call" various sculptors to see if they are available for work, what their going rate is and if they would be interested in a particular project. A lot will depend on the project and your timeline - though your budget will come into play as well. If you want some "one off" character figures - a good sculptor can squeeze those in on a weekend depending on your needs. If you are looking to have a couple of armies done and you have "rough concepts" - it might take them a month of doing nothing but your work as they develop the concepts into figures and then work through your various units. If you already have extremely solid concept art - then they might be able to squeak that down to a few weeks time depending on scale and level of detail you are after.

Now, extrapolate those times to your budget. A weekend is worth a few hundred bucks. A month is worth several thousand for most people. They need to put a roof over their head and food in their belly - not to mention things like insurance and other business related expenses.

Just keep that in mind when you are trying to sell the ground level of your company - most established sculptors have bills to pay. You might be better suited by hitting up places like Frothers and Mini Sculpture to find someone who is still living at home with their parents - but shows promise. For legal reasons, ensure they are the age of majority and all that and can actually enter into a legal contract with you as one thing you do not want to do is end up paying for sculptures and then finding out that the person you paid could not legally sign away their rights of production to you.

 Sean_OBrien wrote:
Hopefully you get some takers off from what you have posted, but the word on the street is that right now - sculptors world wide are fairly well slammed for work. Between a lot of the big names being busy with their own projects and a lot of the little names moving up to fill their gaps in the ranks for established companies...it is a good time to work with putty.

If you don't get many takers though - what I have found works well in the past is to "cold call" various sculptors to see if they are available for work, what their going rate is and if they would be interested in a particular project. A lot will depend on the project and your timeline - though your budget will come into play as well. If you want some "one off" character figures - a good sculptor can squeeze those in on a weekend depending on your needs. If you are looking to have a couple of armies done and you have "rough concepts" - it might take them a month of doing nothing but your work as they develop the concepts into figures and then work through your various units. If you already have extremely solid concept art - then they might be able to squeak that down to a few weeks time depending on scale and level of detail you are after.

Now, extrapolate those times to your budget. A weekend is worth a few hundred bucks. A month is worth several thousand for most people. They need to put a roof over their head and food in their belly - not to mention things like insurance and other business related expenses.

Just keep that in mind when you are trying to sell the ground level of your company - most established sculptors have bills to pay. You might be better suited by hitting up places like Frothers and Mini Sculpture to find someone who is still living at home with their parents - but shows promise. For legal reasons, ensure they are the age of majority and all that and can actually enter into a legal contract with you as one thing you do not want to do is end up paying for sculptures and then finding out that the person you paid could not legally sign away their rights of production to you.

Hey, thank you so much for the information. Its been hard to find sculptors and people on here at least seem to take it as a joke. Its hard to start a kickstarter for a miniature game with NO MINIS. lol. I will check out the sites you suggested. Our budget is curently souly for miniatures right now since the system is curently built and in the last stages of playtesting. Soon we hope to offer a limited format to gamers to play test it. Sort of an open beta. Also "my" (and by my i mean 3 guys including me) companies name is Guns and Drums Gaming Co.

The reason why a lot of people take these posts as jokes is because many times the people who post looking for web designers, sculptors, illustrators, rules writers, is that the person with the post rarely has more than a barebones idea in their head, and they're often immensely protective of their ideas that they refuse to really tell anything about their project to entice people.

Also having some for of internet presence might be helpful. I just googled your company name, and found nothing. So for all I know, you're not an actual company. Which is not to say you're not, but even if you had a twitter account and a facebook page, it'd give us something to see that is "tangible"

Best of luck with finding a sculptor, the few that I've "worked" with (worked is in quotes because On the Lamb Games, the company I work for, has dealt with sculptors, but not me personally), is that you're looking at about 1000 USD per sculpt, and that's from someone who's worth the cash.

Best of luck, but a little more info might be good from you guys

 Alfndrate wrote:
The reason why a lot of people take these posts as jokes is because many times the people who post looking for web designers, sculptors, illustrators, rules writers, is that the person with the post rarely has more than a barebones idea in their head, and they're often immensely protective of their ideas that they refuse to really tell anything about their project to entice people.

Also having some for of internet presence might be helpful. I just googled your company name, and found nothing. So for all I know, you're not an actual company. Which is not to say you're not, but even if you had a twitter account and a facebook page, it'd give us something to see that is "tangible"

Best of luck with finding a sculptor, the few that I've "worked" with (worked is in quotes because On the Lamb Games, the company I work for, has dealt with sculptors, but not me personally), is that you're looking at about 1000 USD per sculpt, and that's from someone who's worth the cash.

Best of luck, but a little more info might be good from you guys

I completely understand the rational. I guess I was a bit nieve in my thought that with a large amount of people posting pictures of work they have done (I dont leave myself out on this) that it would be easier to find someone interested. We are curently working on a web presences along with branding using social media. I guess a website with nothing is better then no website. I will pass what I have learned to my partners in this kinda humilating but very informative adventure it solicating forums.

Also, spelling counts. I don't submit resumes to companies whose posts have misspelled words every 8th word. Don't want to come across just being mean, but part of what you're talking about doing (web presence) involves careful proofreading, by someone else, to check for these kinds of things to come across as professional as possible. Small efforts into those kinds of things can profit you in the good will department.

I work for a marketing company, and I can tell you that it's very easy. We've had corporate websites pushed with wrong words (REALLY wrong words), so it happens to everyone.

I do hope you find what you're looking for, because I've met people recently that are doing their own series of games (On The Lamb, /namedrop), and I really respect what they've organized between sculptors, casters, artists and writers. I'd like to see more projects like that get off the ground.

 Zygrot24 wrote:
Also, spelling counts. I don't submit resumes to companies whose posts have misspelled words every 8th word. Don't want to come across just being mean, but part of what you're talking about doing (web presence) involves careful proofreading, by someone else, to check for these kinds of things to come across as professional as possible. Small efforts into those kinds of things can profit you in the good will department.

I work for a marketing company, and I can tell you that it's very easy. We've had corporate websites pushed with wrong words (REALLY wrong words), so it happens to everyone.

I do hope you find what you're looking for, because I've met people recently that are doing their own series of games (On The Lamb, /namedrop), and I really respect what they've organized between sculptors, casters, artists and writers. I'd like to see more projects like that get off the ground.

And don't be worried about not "seeing" your sculptors, illustrator, etc... On the Lamb does all of our company communication and development via the interwebz. OTL HQ is in Florida, our Art Director is in Atlanta, our Studio Painter is just outside of DC, our Resin Caster is in PA/VA, Our Metal Caster and I are in Ohio (though our metal caster is an hour from me ), and our main sculptor is in New York, and most of our Endless: Fantasy Tactics figures were sculpted by Bob Naismith, who lives in the UK... It's totally possible to run and coordinate an entire (albeit small) company via the internet.

Best of luck man.

only thing's I have ever sculpted are very cartoonish and I've never really shown anyone them (little aliens, evil flowers, possessed cake, smooze's, etc)
I am gonna go out on a limb and assume my wackyness isn't what your game demands