Wrote y'all a comment on your steam group. Would be interested in talking about this with y'all. :)

If you build it, they will come.
Far as animation goes, you're pretty good. I like what I see.
But keep in mind you've only been in the SFM scene for a few months now (or at least that's what your YT channels tell me). It's taken me just over three years to build up 3,000 subscribers. Find ways to get your content out there.
I would recommend entering the Saxxy Awards. That's a great place to get your content out to the public. I would also recommend to just keep at it. As long as you enjoy doing what you're doing, and do it consistently, people will come around, and in the meantime, you'll give those few that have subbed something to watch and maybe even something to tell their friends about.
If you build it, they will come.

I would be interested in talking about the job/project in greater detail with you. Do you have a preferred method of contact?

Taking a look at your team portfolio, which is impressive btw, I noticed that it is more or less entirely composed of 2-D flash animations. May I ask why are you looking for 3-D Source engine animators when it appears that you guys do nothing of the sort?

And that's all in SFM?? Dang, that looks freaking cool. I love seeing this kind of original stuff, doing something completely different and new with a tool that's mainly used to add hats to Meet The Heavy. I'm gonna be keeping my eye on this. Good luck!

In the animation set editor, click-drag the model (Engineer) onto the item (Level 3 Chin). SFM will automatically lock everything together, minus the facial controls (no one knows why, it just doesn't). Go to the motion editor, select the item (Chin) in the animation set editor, and drag the zero slider all the way to the right. Boom. Triple chins, baby.

No problem. Sometimes the coolest things are the simplest. :)

Really, it's a pretty simple lighting trick. Just turn the lights the right shade of yellow\orange so that it matches the fire.

No Prob. Good Luck!

Don't know a whole lot about making a project look more "cinematic", but I do know that having one part of your film in 30fps and the other in 24fps will cause some problems. There's a way to have SFM override the frame rate regardless of what the project is set to. When you export your movie, there's an window that will pop up with a bunch of stuff like Post Processing, AO, as well as a few tabs at the top, one of which contains an option that will allow you to change the frame rate to whatever you want.