>>96286437And an interview with or without a pitch and content means nothing if they have no clue if he can manage a project like that. You're giving full creative control to someone who has only worked by themselves in animation, rather than head up someone experienced like a project manager and have the new hire work his way up the latter until you know they're qualified enough to oversee everyone's work.
It isn't effective just glancing over someone's shoulder and saying "well yeah, that's alright I guess. But this is how I'd do it". There's months worth of planning, countless hours of scheduling and maticulous details you've got to have the entire team stick to if you want a successful project.
At worst he's an ideas guy who can push out a 3 minute animation every month by himself for this cartoon. At best he'll be the ideas guy that has someone else managing everything while he gets credit for the cartoon.