[Hi_Fi_Guy]

Hi-Fi colour design, colorists of titles like Uncanny X-Men, GI Joe, and many more, has several opening for Colorists.

We are looking for talented colorists to begin working immediately on monthly titles with the Hi-Fi team. These are real coloring positions that pay very competitive page rates.

We also have a few apprentice colorists positions open. These positions are for those people with talent, drive, and the desire to work in comics but still need some guidance and training from the pros at Hi-Fi.

If you are interested please follow the submission guidelines at: http://www.hifidesign.com/talent_search/index.html

NO EMAIL OR PHONE CALLS PLEASE.

[strata]

Reloaction/sponsorship available?

[Hi_Fi_Guy]

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Originally posted by strata:
Reloaction/sponsorship available?

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We can not help with Visa or Greencard sponsorship. It would seem that comics is too small of an industry to comply with the legal/tax documentation needed to make this happen. We have looked into it before without success...

You could always marry a nice American



Brian - Hi-Fi

[Hi_Fi_Guy]

quote:

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Originally posted by strata:
Reloaction/sponsorship available?

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We can not help with Visa or Greencard sponsorship. It would seem that comics is too small of an industry to comply with the legal/tax documentation needed to make this happen. We have looked into it before without success...

You could always marry a nice American



Brian - Hi-Fi

[Dizzogg]

Hey Brian, Does the person need to be in Arizona or are you looking for out of state freelance as well?? Just curious?

[a0]

Hi-Fi does great work!!
I highly reccomend this career field to anyone who can work hard to meet deadlines, and who doesn't mind neglecting sleep!!

[ February 21, 2002: Message edited by: a0 ]

[Eon]

Man, if only I had the money to relocate. These guys are really talented, I extremely recomend taking this offer.I would but I dont have the heavy experence yet. Do you guys ever have intern flatters that arent Inhouse? If so, I would deffinately be interested!

[Eon]

I gots the Talent. Drive, most definately. Desire and Passion, Oh yeah (considering that coloring pro-comics for a big company is the one thing I want to do as a career).I would love to get ahold of you guys if I could?

[andreasj]

Just a humble question. I�m from Sweden and have read comics since before I could read at all. I�ve even done some work on my own, BUT what is flatting?

[Eon]

The type of coloring that we are refering to is that of a cell style, which is most common with animation.Its is based on layers. Animators paint on layers of celifane (Clear plastic sheets). Each layer is specific. ex.Layer of Lineart, under the lineart in another layer you fill in everywhere that has color, with one color. 1 for pants, one for shirt, hair, skin, ect. So you are using solid colors, no highlights, no shadows, just solids. That step in the coloring prosess is called the "flats. You can simulate this on Photoshop (which is the industry standard in comics) earlier comics just had flats, and a lot of independent comics can only afford the flats. It really can take a lot of time and money to create top notch colored pages. after the flats is the gratients, Shadows, then the highlights, and lastly knockouts (coloring the lineart) and after effects, (glows, fog, lighting, atmosphere, ect)
Anyways...
To save time and money, companys might commision a person to just do the flats or they might have someone inhouse that JUST does that hence the "flatter".Kind of the entry-level colorist position. But most colorists like more controll over the whole process so they will do the flats themselfs.

Hope that helps

[Jaysin]

Eon: You're a little bit off in what flats are for. You're right that they fill in each area with a separate flat color, but there's more to it than just being the first basic step in coloring a page.

Flats are always done with an aliased tool. Either with the rubber band lasso tool (anti-aliasing turned off) or with the pencil tool. Also each separate area must be filled with a different color. For example, if a person had a blue hat and it was next to a blue sky they shouldn't be the "exact" same blue. The reason for this will become clear in a minute.

Once the entire page is separated into flatted areas you then copy the page (without lineart) and paste it into a new alpha channel. This converts all of the various colors into shades of grey. Then you have an alpha channel that contains every separated area on your page that you can quickly select with the magic wand tool (set to a tolerance of 0). Since everything is aliased you get a nice clean selection every time.

Contrary to your last statement most pro colorists prefer not to do the flats themselves so that they can spend more time on the actual coloring of the page. Flats are more of just "setting up" a page to be colored.

There's a tutorial for flatting here that does a much better job of showing the process than what I just described. Flatting Tutorial
Hope this helped.

[Malachi Maloney]

I live in Arizona.

I'm a colorist among other things.

Interesting.......

M

[Fabrys]

Argh ! I don't live in Arizona... I don't live in America
Is not Hi-Fi interrested in French Freelance ? I guess your team would enjoy a trip to France once a month...