3D Artist

• Design and animate compelling 2D and 3D motion graphics across a wide range of styles and platforms.
• Develop storyboards, styleframes, and motion explorations that support the creative vision.
• Collaborate with Art Directors, Creative Directors, Producers, and fellow designers throughout production.
• Take ownership of complex assignments, solving creative and technical challenges independently.
• Help maintain a high level of craft, consistency, and polish across every deliverable.
• Provide thoughtful feedback and mentorship to junior designers, helping raise the quality of the team.
• Stay current with emerging tools, workflows, and technologies that improve both process and creative output.
• Accurately estimate effort, communicate progress, and help projects stay on schedule.

Senior Motion Designer

• Create polished 2D motion graphics and animations for digital campaigns, social media, websites, presentations, and product marketing.
• Work with existing brand identity, motion systems, and animation assets to create consistent, high-quality content while evolving and expanding them where appropriate.
• Translate creative concepts and static designs into engaging motion pieces that align with the brand.
• Collaborate closely with designers, creative leads, and marketing teams from concept through final delivery.
• Help refine and maintain the team's motion design library, templates, and best practices.
• Manage multiple projects simultaneously while maintaining a high standard of craft and attention to detail.
• Keep up with motion design trends, techniques, and tools, bringing fresh ideas that complement the existing visual language.

Motion Designer

• Conceptualize, design, and execute high-quality motion graphics, animation, UI motion, video content, and digital experiences across campaigns and content initiatives.
• Develop storyboards, style frames, motion studies, and visual explorations that help communicate and refine creative concepts.
• Partner closely with Creative Directors, Art Directors, Copywriters, Visual Designers, and Generative AI Artists to create integrated audience experiences across channels and platforms.
• Collaborate on music selection, sound design, and audio direction to enhance storytelling, reinforce brand expression, and elevate the overall quality of motion experiences.
• Ensure all motion work maintains a high standard of craft, storytelling, technical execution, and brand consistency.
• Contribute to pre-production planning, production, and post-production efforts to help ensure creative intent is maintained through final delivery.
• Explore AI-assisted motion workflows, automation, and emerging creative technologies that improve efficiency and unlock new creative possibilities.
• Manage multiple projects simultaneously while maintaining exceptional attention to detail, organization, and quality.
• Participate in creative reviews, brainstorms, and cultural trend exploration, bringing fresh inspiration and motion-first thinking to the team.
• Stay current on motion design, animation, filmmaking, sound design, AI, and emerging technologies to continually push the work forward.

• Be the force behind how clients' brands move, feel, and interact
• Bridge the gap between creative vision and business impact
• Conceptualize and execute 2D animation, UI motion, and motion graphics
• Leverage technical skills to produce engaging content across platforms

Principal – Motion Design

• Create custom real-time visual effects and implement them in-engine using Unreal Engine 5, Unity, or proprietary tools.
• Build high-quality effects for gameplay, environments, cinematics, atmosphere, combat, interaction, destruction, UI/game feedback, and other project needs.
• Create all necessary textures, flipbooks, materials, meshes, simulations, and supporting assets for real-time VFX.
• Maintain clean, readable, well-structured material graphs, Niagara systems, parameters, naming conventions, and reusable effect setups.
• Use tools such as Photoshop, Substance Designer, Blender, Houdini, Maya, EmberGen, or other software as needed to support effect creation.
• Work with complex material setups, Blueprints, scripting hooks, animation events, gameplay triggers, or engine-specific implementation needs.
• Troubleshoot VFX issues in partnership with Technical Art, Engineering, Design, Animation, Audio, and other disciplines.
• Own VFX optimization fundamentals, including particle counts, overdraw, shader cost, texture memory, spawn rates, scalability settings, and platform performance constraints.
• Help ensure effects are readable, performant, and aligned with gameplay needs, art direction, timing, mood, and player feedback.
• Review work from internal artists, partner studios, or external vendors and provide clear, constructive, actionable feedback.
• Help maintain a consistent quality bar across a set of effects, a feature, a level, or a small team pod.
• Support short-term planning by helping break down VFX requests into clear tasks, priorities, dependencies, risks, and definitions of done.
• Proactively identify production risks, including missing gameplay hooks, performance spikes, unclear direction, pipeline gaps, dependency issues, or inconsistent style execution.
• Collaborate closely with Designers, Concept Artists, Art Directors, Technical Artists, Engineers, Animators, Audio Designers, and Producers.
• Support client-facing communication when needed by clarifying requirements, sharing WIP, explaining constraints, and aligning on expected outcomes.
• Contribute to VFX workflow improvements, reusable templates, documentation, libraries, naming standards, or scalability rules when appropriate.

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