Your Stage : Need an animator for short film by Rick Oldham

What are you offering to pay? Quality animation can cost a few hundred dollars per second of finished product.

DIY project. Non paid. Foot in door. IMDB credits

There’s lots of ways animators can do that with their own projects. Why should they work on your’s instead?

Steven obviously you did not read my story. Read the story first then comment later.

People don't collaborate because of stories, they collaborate because of storytellers. What is it about you as a person and a team member that would be worth someone's time and effort? Because, if you're fun to work with and you work hard, people would partner with you even if the story was crap (that's how Justin Roiland has a career).

Oh Stephen. I'm a dream. And i'm into cool music. We should collab on a project.

I have a sound guy.

Hi there! Quick question. What kind of animation do you seek for your story?

Muhammad that is a question I don't know how to answer. I would leave it up to the animator and his artistic integrity. The story speaks for itself.

Based on your feedback, you may be better off animating it yourself, if only to gain an appreciation for what it is you’re asking others to do. Such a cartoon could also become a visual template for what you want an animator to work toward, which beats the pants off declaring “dealer’s choice.” Believe it or not, animators prefer detailed direction over creative freedom when working with a collaborator. Helps reduce wasted frames.

The same goes for composers as well; we prefer to know what the vision for the production is than be told "Just make it sound like Hans Zimmer", not accounting for the part where that could mean virtually anything.

Dare I also say, with all manner of due respect, that to tell someone that you're "leaving it up to their artistic interpretation" communicates to the prospective contributor as "I have no vision for my own project", and you never want to move forward with anything when it has no vision.

Okay. As far as animation goes. I see the characters in the style of The polar Express. There is a specific song in the golfers headphones if you read the story.

I would expect an almost choreographed dance between soundtrack and action in the scene. A subtle dramatic build-up.