Altabe

*continue thought on my last post: Animation industry is a friendship based industry, so more friends you got, more support, more success on the projects. It's not as harshly competitive as other commercial industry. (other than us being competitive in skill level) Because majority of work will be slave work...

It's frankly the best if we all can get funding on our own dream project and just work on each other's dream project. But there's only so much one can take.

If you found an animator who will work with ur budget, try to check in once a week is best, if you can manage to book him/her for the month or two.

If you can't manage to book their entire month with your budget... be prepared to wait since the best an animator can do is one second of animation for every 1-3 days, and you will need pre-production time. (And very often a freelance animator will take multiple projects.) 

hope that with these knowledge you will be able to recruit and set a working schedule for your project. Best wishes.

nah, everyone can use more work. No conflict here, more successful the better. lol If anything, english indy anime circle is so darn small everyone needs to be best friends and help each other out.