Tower, as illustrated and animated by Austin’s Minnow Mountain. The production house is currently looking for artists and editors to work on two major projects.

While TV and film are struggling with working out the next steps forward for production under coronavirus conditions, one area of production that’s staying busy is animation. That’s why Austin’s Minnow Mountain is putting out the call for artists to work on their new projects.

The firm that brought Keith Maitland’s award-winning Rotoscoped documentary Tower to vivid life is looking for staff for two major projects: Season 2 of Amazon’s Undone, and “an animated feature film directed by an acclaimed Texas-based director” (gee, we wonder what that could be?).

Yes, as Minnow Mountain’s foundations lying in founder Craig Staggs’ work on Richard Linklater’s A Scanner Darkly, now the relationship continues as they expand their team for his long-gestating story of Houston during the Moon missions, Apollo 10 1/2: A Space Age Adventure.

With this huge amount of work coming in, they’re looking for a large number of artists and editors to fill multiple posts:

• Staff 2D Animator
• Lead 2D Animator
• Digital Filmmaker/Compositor/Editor

Animators should be skilled at line drawing the human form in a naturalistic fashion, and have experience with digital drawing tablets, preferably also with TVPaint. Austin-area artists are preferred, but the positions at this time will be remote.

Think you’re up to the job? They’re accepting applications now via www.minnowmountain.com/jobs.

This article appears in August 7 • 2020.

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The Chronicle's first Culture Desk editor, Richard has reported on Austin's growing film production and appreciation scene for over a decade. A graduate of the universities of York, Stirling, and UT-Austin, a Rotten Tomatoes certified critic, and eight-time Best of Austin winner, he's currently at work on two books and a play.