Motion Graphics Designers in New York City, NY

This is a temporary position with the Creative Studio in New York City, NY. The chosen candidate is responsible for highlighting client deliverables through innovative motion-graphic design. The ideal candidate will be a visual thinker with a fresh and current design aesthetic, interested in bringing brand stories to life.

They will collaborate within creative and production teams to develop an artistic vision, and work effectively and efficiently to produce fresh, meaningful content for a variety of purposes. Their unique blend of artistic and technical skill will ensure the highest level of creative excellence and production quality in all projects.

Responsibilities:

• Understand aesthetics and produce work with the proper balance between innovation and brand voice
• Provide a unique creative point-of-view within group brainstorms to help develop ideas
• Interpret scripts, ideas and storyboards in innovative ways, translating concepts into compelling video productions
• Assist in designing and creating storyboards
• Design and deliver persuasive, brand-appropriate motion graphics to enhance the story and viewing experience
• Control plot content, flow, and timing while editing audio and video assets into a cohesive story
• Retouch, correct, and color-grade video content
• Maintain visual quality throughout post-production, insuring all elements remain intact or are enhanced as needed
• Deliver final projects through a variety of systems and video
  formats

Skills:

• Advanced graphic design and typography skills coupled with
  the ability to weave a meaningful and compelling story
• Artistic vision with a can-do attitude
• Self-motivated, highly organized, collaborative, and able to create in a fast-paced and growing environment
• Work effectively with minimal crew in pursuit of creative excellence
• Exceptional communication skills, tact, and diplomacy with the ability to gracefully give, accept, and act upon direction
• Excellent time management and multi-tasking skills with a proven record of completing projects on time and within budget
• Juggle multiple projects and tight schedules without sacrificing quality or composure
• Acute attention to detail with a no-compromise attitude towards quality
• Well-rounded and adept at problem solving, including contingency planning for what could go wrong
• Make quick, instinctive, proper decisions when things do not go as planned
• Remain current on industry trends and styles, able to integrate new technique and/or technology when appropriate

Job Requirements

• Minimum 5-7 years of hands-on motion graphics and video editing experience, college degree or equivalent business experience
• Experience working directly in a high-volume, fast-paced, constantly changing agency and studio environment is a must
• Creative video reel showcasing specific skills listed above

Expert knowledge of:

• Apple based hardware
• Non-linear editing - Adobe Premier, Audition, Photoshop, Final Cut Pro 2D/3D motion graphics – After Effects, Cinema 4D (animation, composition, VFX, title sequencing)
• Color grading – Speed Grade or equivalent software
• Post-production workflows, appropriate media formats, and optimizing video for various outputs

Are you looking to pay or is this a collaboration?
Pay to hire someone

Is this ongoing work or a one off job?
Ongoing work

How would you prefer to pay?
Day rate

What’s your day rate budget range?
150-250 (Industry average)

Do you have an estimate of the job or project length?
A few months

Are you a company or individual hiring?
Company

Do you have internal sign off on the hire?
Yes

Do you need to hire for a specific city, country or place?
Yes, they need to be at a location (give location in job title)

When do you want to have the freelancer secured by?
2-3 weeks

What is most important for this job?
Quality

Twine can guarantee 3 relevant freelancers for an upfront fee of $650/£500. Would you like to know more?
No

How many freelancers do you want to contact you?
2-3

Do you have a job specification or creative brief?
Yes (please enter this in the description)

Where did you find Twine?
You contacted me