Become Part of the Commoncraft Video Team

I have long been a fan of Commoncraft's videos. If you don't know the work of this two person company check it out right away.

Sachi and Lee LeFever make these short and wonderful little videos that explain complex technology using simple English, a whiteboard, paper cutouts, and primitive stop motion animation techniques. Their work is widely imitated by rarely equaled.

I am not the only one who thinks their work is great. In the last couple of years they have produced great stuff for Google, Twitter, LinkedIn, Wetpaint Wikis, PRWeb, MeetUp and a host other companies.  You can see some of those videos here.

Recently Sachi and Lee announced they were going to stop accepting work from corporate clients. As I understand it, the plan was to build up a large library of videos about technology and whatever other  subjects struck their fancy. The idea was that they, not their corporate clients, would start chosing the subjects to animate and how to best cover those subjects. Once a video was done Commoncraft would add it to the Commoncraft online store. Individuals could watch the videos for free from the store and companies could buy licences to use those videos. Marshall Kirkpatrick wrote about this plan in a September blog. Lee LeFever fills in more details here.

Problem is that Commoncraft kept getting lots of requests from companies who wanted them to keep taking on custom work.  Sounds like they got tired of saying no.  So they are on the look out for kindred spirits who can work with them to give their corporate customer what they want.

Here is the job listing. 
 

If this is the sort of work you can do, feel free to contact them.  If you end up talking to them please let me know. I am interested in how the interview goes.