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CartoonRecruit.com @cartoonrecruit.com · 01/12/2025

Congratulations to the winners of Cartoon Recruit's first portfolio jam!

Community Choice - A Night on the Other Side by BAACollective & Friends

Winner of the Jam - Trumpet Skull by Team Lonely Bones

Honorable Mention - Doot Doot by The Lone Drafter

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CartoonRecruit.com @cartoonrecruit.com · 02/11/2025

Announcing the theme of Cartoon Recruit's portfolio jam. Drumroll please…

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CartoonRecruit.com @cartoonrecruit.com · 25/10/2025

Meet the judges panel for our Portfolio Jam: blog.cartoonrecruit.com/meet-the-jud... Register here: blog.cartoonrecruit.com/cartoon-recr... Follow: @toonsmith.bsky.social @edentimm.bsky.social @gardenbearjake.bsky.social @ohkayart.bsky.social @littledigits.bsky.social @zebirdbrain.bsky.social

Meet the judges panel for Cartoon Recruit's first Portfolio Jam! (November 1 to 24)

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CartoonRecruit.com @cartoonrecruit.com · 18/10/2025

By popular demand, here are the details about our upcoming Animation Jam in November! We're hosting a month-long online community event to give artists space to collaborate on original portfolio pieces. -Mike

What’s a portfolio jam?

This is a community event where teams of artists work together to produce 20-seconds of animation, each following a theme. The purpose of this jam is to give students and early-career artists an opportunity to collaborate on portfolio pieces together.

Teams of three are encouraged, but projects could be completed by groups of any size. There are no restrictions on techniques or software, so long as assets are not generated by AI.

When’s the portfolio jam?

The jam’s theme will be announced at 8:00 PM Eastern on Saturday, November 1st on Cartoon Recruit’s discord server. The theme will be silly and appropriate for post-Halloween. Artists will have up to 7 days to complete their jam films. In order to participate, projects must be uploaded to YouTube by November 24 before midnight (in your timezone) with links sent by email to mike@cartoonrecruit.com along with your team’s name.

The films will each be screened during a livestream on Cartoon Recruit’s Discord server at 8:00 PM Eastern on Sunday, November 30th. There will be a panel of judges as well as a community vote.

How to portfolio jam?

If you don’t already have a team assembled, you can look for one on the Cartoon Recruit Discord server through the #portfolio-jam-lfg board or anywhere else you can wrangle friends and colleagues together. Once you have a team of three ready, fill out this form.

Will there be prizes?

Cartoon Recruit doesn’t endorse spec work or contests. We’re only playing for bragging rights and a film that you can feel proud to have in your portfolio.

Hey, uh, what’s Cartoon Recruit?

CartoonRecruit.com is an ad-free job board for finding studios actively hiring in animation, game development and VFX. Whether you’re an early career artist or a seasoned professional, our goal is to provide the resources that you need to connect with your next animation job. And we’re interested in hosting more online events in the future.

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CartoonRecruit.com @cartoonrecruit.com · 16/09/2025

Who wants to be Cartoon Recruit's 10,000th follower on LinkedIn? -Mike

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CartoonRecruit.com @cartoonrecruit.com · 05/08/2025

You don't know how long I've been waiting to post this. -Mike www.linkedin.com/company/cart...

Thank you for getting us to OVER NINE THOUSAAAAAAAND followers on LinkedIn. -CartoonRecruit.com

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CartoonRecruit.com @cartoonrecruit.com · 13/06/2025

Since we started last August, we've listed a total of 2891 jobs on CartoonRecruit's website. If you want to cheer us on as we approach our first birthday, join our Discord: discord.gg/t9JvaQNa9N -Mike

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CartoonRecruit.com @cartoonrecruit.com · 09/03/2025

Finally starting to see some high budget productions, lol

A block of text which contains a typo: "In the U.S., the standard base pay range for this role is $62,000.00 - $114,700.00 Hourly."

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CartoonRecruit.com @cartoonrecruit.com · 28/01/2025

But if you're just looking for one takeaway, here's Christine Huot's advice on nailing your in-studio interview.

Christine: It is always good to do some research on the company and watch some episodes of shows they have produced, especially if you know you are interviewing for a specific project that already has episodes released. Be prepared to discuss your shots and your work process. You are good at what you do, that is why you got the interview, so be comfortable with talking about your work and be proud of it.

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CartoonRecruit.com @cartoonrecruit.com · 17/01/2025

CartoonRecruit.com curates animation industry jobs with direct links to studio career pages. No mirroring posts. No profiles required. No nonsense. Bookmark it here: cartoonrecruit.com

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CartoonRecruit.com @cartoonrecruit.com · 08/01/2025

Ready to ring in the new year with a new animated production? Bookmark our job directory: cartoonrecruit.com

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CartoonRecruit.com @cartoonrecruit.com · 19/12/2024

This might be the longest sentence I've seen in a job description. -Mike

"The Render Technical Director (TD) is responsible for technically supporting the Lighting department, under the guidance of Technical and Creative Leadership to create complex, photorealistic lighting elements necessary to support the artistic goals and story concepts of the production, through the design, implementation and support of tools and workflows that address production needs."

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CartoonRecruit.com @cartoonrecruit.com · 15/11/2024

We made a conscious decision to never link to animation jobs which mention generative AI, because we don't believe that a statistical model can do your job. You can find our directory here: cartoonrecruit.com

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CartoonRecruit.com @cartoonrecruit.com · 10/11/2024

ICYMI: Our review of The Art of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem - blog.cartoonrecruit.com/book-review-...

Cover for The Art of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem featuring concept art of the four turtles standing dramatically on a roof

A spread featuring mutants Mondo Gecko and Leatherhead

Concept art of Superfly's iridescent carapice

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CartoonRecruit.com @cartoonrecruit.com · 09/11/2024

There are websites that want to be all things to all people. LinkedIn desperately wants to be Instagram. Instagram shamelessly copies TikTok. TikTok tries to be the next Amazon. We just want to share links to animation industry job posts. Bookmark our website here: CartoonRecruit.com

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CartoonRecruit.com @cartoonrecruit.com · 09/11/2024

We share direct links to animation job posts. That’s it! That’s the website. Bookmark it here: cartoonrecruit.com

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CartoonRecruit.com @cartoonrecruit.com · 08/10/2024

Attention recruits! Did you know that you can bookmark any job search query on CartoonRecruit.com? We wrote a quick cheatsheet to get you started: cartoonrecruit.com/bookmarks

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CartoonRecruit.com @cartoonrecruit.com · 04/10/2024

We host a clean, text-based website which provides direct links to job opportunities. Maybe we're the crazy ones. Bookmark our website: cartoonrecruit.com

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CartoonRecruit.com @cartoonrecruit.com · 13/09/2024

On the double, Recruits! Jam Filled is currently crewing up for a short-term CG project in #Ottawa and #Toronto: boatrocker.catsone.com/careers/7140...

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CartoonRecruit.com @cartoonrecruit.com · 07/09/2024

Hello recruits! Do you miss visiting actual websites? CartoonRecruit posts direct links to job posts at animation studios. No profiles. No obnoxious auto-play video ads (or any video ads). No nonsense. Bookmark it here: cartoonrecruit.com

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CartoonRecruit.com @cartoonrecruit.com · 18/08/2024

Have you ever noticed that studios never try to replace the C-suite with generative AI? It's always artists whose work they undervalue. Cartoon Recruit lists professional jobs in animation; no unpaid internships, spec work or generative AI touch up: cartoonrecruit.com

Why are there no listings for unpaid internship or art contests?

This is a job board for professionals and artists in the animation industry, and for that reason unpaid positions or spec work (labor that is not guaranteed fair pay) is not accepted. The Animation Guild’s website has helpful resources on fair wages in the American animation industry.

Why are there no listings for NFT and AI projects?

I don’t like them.

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