Animated video for online crowdsourcing site

Hi all, We are launching a new online crowdsourcing site and we require 3 animated/lustrated videos to place on our site. The 3 videos will be about how the site and concept works: 1. How it works 2. For Member 1 – Specifc type of member but predominately a slight variation to “How it works video” 3. For Member 2 – Specifc type of member but predominately a slight variation to “How it works video” The video needs to convey the concept clearly to the customer, which we consider to be local residential, students and business people within our local communities. Local community helping each other. It's a brand new concept! We want the videos to be around 60 seconds each if possible and to basically highlight how and why users should join and use the site. Prior to creating the video we would like for illustrator to create 2 animated characters (Member 1 & Member 2) which we will use through the site. For the video you will be required to provide: 1. Produce a storyboard for each video 2. The drawing / animation: I want this to be very simple and clean. Flash or the like is fine, but i want it to be cartoon based with simple characters using one or two colours and nothing fancy. 3. Key colours of our site are: a. Orange/Red - RGB - R (255) G (51) B (0) b. Orange/Red - RGB - R (190) G (190) B (190) 4. Here are a few videos that I like a. [login to view URL] b. [login to view URL] c. [login to view URL]` d. [login to view URL] e. [login to view URL] I will be providing the following: 1. The scripts for the 3 videos & extra text where required 2. I will do my own voiceovers, or outsource those, 3. Background sound track 4. Logo I am open to some design flair and if you could show me some of your previous work when you bid (a link or something similar) that would help me greatly in entrusting you with this project! If you have any questions, ask them up front and along the way, it's better to work together on this as I don't want to get to the end and have lots of nasty surprises! My budget is ideally < $500. Thanks, Tony