Motion Designer & Animator
We recruit high-potential candidates to work with some of the best companies, start-ups, and agencies in South Florida. For this particular role, our client is seeking a motion designer and animator to be responsible for ideating and crafting motion-driven deliverables for short-form and long-form video content, including brand idents, rich media banners, advertisements, GIFs, motion packages, digital signage for web, social, broadcast, and other marketing channels
Scope of Work
RESPONSIBILITIES:
- Follow creative briefs to execute best-in-class animated content that will be part of product marketing videos, social media content, corporate videos, and digital advertisements.
- Create animated HTML5 banners (using HTML/JS and/or with Adobe Animate). Knowledgeable about rich media executions and creative asset optimization for display banners.
- Work closely with the in-house video team to create and maintain a consistent look for all motion content.
- Collaborate with colleagues across the Marketing department and contribute the expertise of animation and storytelling support throughout the creative process, by visually communicating key messages from a motion perspective, from kick-offs to video post-production to bring stories to life.
- Bring still images to life by implementing animation techniques and output them as optimized GIFs and/or specific video formats.
- Design motion packages/toolkits for multi-channel video content.
- Ability to ideate and create advanced motion design sequences.
- Advanced knowledge and technical prowess of 3D systems, including modeling, camera animation, rendering, lighting, dynamic simulations, particle systems, using Cinema 4D or related 3D packages.
- Technically knowledgeable on 3D camera tracking, match moving, rotoscoping and advanced compositing.
- Understand the video post-production process (editing, color grading, audio mixing).
- Understand and implement easing, proper keyframing and animation principles in 2D and 3D environments.
- Create and/or interpret frame-by-frame storyboards and bring them to life.
- Create and/or enhance post-production workflows for efficient video creation and delivery.
- Capture the look and feel of motion design sequences in style-frames before animation begins.
- Accommodate multiple revisions and changes under tight deadlines.
Requirements:
- Bachelor's Degree in Computer Animation, Motion Design, Visual Effects, Film, or related fields; or any equivalent combination of relevant experience, education, and skills.
- 5+ years of experience working in a creative studio, broadcast and/or agency. Online Portfolio and/or, demo reel is a must.
- Creativity with an acute eye for composition and graphics as well as a keen understanding of the importance of copy and font types.
- Proven ability to distill information provided in creative briefs and/or presentation scripts to create targeted design work. Ability to prioritize multiple projects and possess exceptional time management skills in a tight deadline environment.
- Self-motivated, detail-oriented, and well-organized with excellent verbal and written communication skills.
- Strong knowledge of emerging software technologies and ability to maintain an up-to-date and thorough knowledge of the social media landscape and role of motion within social media.
- A creative problem solver with a positive, team player attitude. A comprehensive understanding of pre-production through the post-production process and a discriminating eye/ear for video/audio and animation quality are required. A keen eye for video edits, animation, design, typography, modern graphics, and a visual sense for creative storytelling.
- Must possess the ability to both tell the story and operate the equipment and different software types. Knowledgeable regarding standard video camera formats, media management, storage, and delivery. Must have advanced/expert knowledge of motion design and editing, HTML5/rich media creation, as well as demonstrate the ability to generate 2D and 3D motion graphics using various software packages including but not limited to: Adobe Creative Cloud, (Adobe Premiere Pro, Adobe After Effects, Adobe Animate, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator); Cinema 4D, Redshift, Red Giant tools, Mocha Pro, miscellaneous Adobe After Effects scripts and plug-ins.
L’epic Miami is an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, pregnancy, age, national origin, disability status, genetic information, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.
