TrendyMinds

As a Jr. Animator, you’ll bring client stories to life through beautiful, expressive animation. You’ll need to come equipped with polished motion graphics and animation skills, and a willingness to assist our account teams in building and maintaining strong trusted relationships with our clients.

In this position, you’ll work directly with one of our largest tech clients on a variety of projects. Confidence in your work and the ability to give professional suggestions are musts. We’ll also expect you to develop concepts, produce pre-visualization assets, adapt technical approaches throughout projects, and professionally package animated content for clients.

Remote work is possible.

Here’s what you’ll do around here:

• Tell stories. You’ll need a sense of timing and natural motion that translates to captivating visual storytelling.
• Make moves. Animate characters, graphics, and other elements to clearly communicate ideas.
• Communicate your ideas. You’ll need excellent oral and written communication, listening, organization, and presentation skills.
• You do know how to juggle, right? Good. You’ll manage multiple projects and tasks of varying complexities to meet deadlines. Actual juggling is a bonus.
• Be visionary. Produce high-quality pre-visualization assets for client review including sketches, style frames, storyboards, and animatics.
• Keep the brainstorm a-brewin’. Contribute to client meetings and brainstorming sessions by creating concept ideas and managing discussions. Participate in internal meetings to gather and share knowledge on behalf of client accounts.
• Work quickly, flexibly, and intelligently. Meet tight deadlines without sacrificing quality or attention to detail.
• Thrive. We value people who continually strive to do good work and aim to grow in their experience and skill.

Here’s what you’ll need:

• Bachelor’s degree in motion graphics, animation, or similar new media field
• At least three years of experience in an agency or production company
• Strong understanding of:
  
  
  • Typography
  • Color
  • Design
  • Composition

• Proficiency in Adobe Creative Suite, including:
  
  
  • After Effects
  • Premiere Pro
  • Photoshop
  • Illustrator

• Ability to record and edit sound, including voice-over and music

• Bonus skills:
  
  
  • Cinema 4D or Maya. 
  • Ability to do quality and clean hand-drawn 2D animation. 
  • Redshift and Octane experience.