Sourcing Unicorns

3D Artist

• Create best-in-class styleframes, motion explorations, and visual directions across a variety of media
• Define aesthetic systems including color palettes, lighting direction, composition, motion language, and rendering approaches
• Translate strategy documents, briefs, and mood boards into comprehensive visual concepts
• Develop toolkits, look libraries, and visual guidelines that maintain consistency throughout production
• Lead and direct nearshore / offshore artists and boutique studios, ensuring alignment with the established visual vision
• Provide actionable, detailed feedback to maintain quality and consistency across deliverables
• Oversee visual outputs from distributed teams and ensure they meet craft and creative standards
• Collaborate closely with the Animation Director to uphold and advance the studio’s visual bar
• Partner with Creative Directors, Experience Designers, Producers, and Technical Directors to align visual design with narrative, interaction, and technical feasibility
• Support pitches and new business initiatives through high-impact visual exploration and look-dev imagery
• Ensure visual direction translates effectively into real-time engines, large-format canvases, and immersive spaces

Lead Motion Designer

Art Director

• Establish and drive visual design direction across projects, ensuring alignment with brand guidelines, project parameters, and client objectives.
• Able to contribute hands-on design work when needed—creating style frames, type treatments, UI systems, and toolkits.
• Lead and mentor designers, fostering growth and elevating studio-wide design standards.
• Collaborate with creatives, technologists, producers, and strategists to align visual design with creative strategy, user experience, and technical feasibility.
• Oversee and refine design outputs, ensuring consistency, clarity, and craft excellence across deliverables.
• Present and articulate design intent and rationale to internal teams, clients, and stakeholders.
• Shape the visual direction of pitches and proposals, contributing to new business opportunities.
• Stay ahead of emerging trends, tools, and workflows—including AI-driven exploration—and bring them into the design process.

Lead Motion Designer

Design Director