TeamPeople: Freelance Motion Graphics Designer required

Motion Graphic Designer is needed in Washington, DC, United States.

TeamPeople is looking for a Motion Graphics Designer. This job has been crawled from the web.

Location : Washington, DC

Contract : Temp

Primary Function: The Creative Designer will create graphics for a wide variety of media, including television, mobile, and online, including title sequences, infographics, AR, explainers, maps, and graphic templates for production users. Must have a demonstrated background in operating VizRt graphics system for live and pre-recorded programs.

We are looking for an individual who can provide… inventive, inspired and creatively excellent still and motion graphics for live daily news output, and longer-term projects. This is an onsite, overnight position.

Duties & Responsibilities

• Will be responsible for creating graphics for a wide variety of media formats, including television, mobile, and online, including title sequences, infographics, AR, explainers, maps, and graphic templates for production users.

• Will liaise closely with editorial production teams at all stages from briefing, updates and delivery, to ensure requirements are defined, prioritized, communicated and delivered.

• With strong industry experience of commercial broadcast design, you will are a pro-active team player who can assist in the co-ordination of a variety of changing priorities in a dynamic team, and can deliver great designs that are visually excellent, editorially accurate and technically robust.

• Other duties, as assigned.

Skills & Qualifications

• Candidate must have skills including typography, composition, art-working, information design, 3D, animation, and compositing, to be able to deliver the most appropriate creative solution for the brief.

• Formal design qualification, or industry experience with evidence of a proven track record of motion design

• Great communication and presentation skills; ability to communicate quickly and effectively

• Strong working knowledge and experience of Adobe Creative Cloud, editing software and 3D applications.

• Experience of managing simultaneous multiple projects of competing demands and collaborating in a team to successfully complete work.

• Keen interest in the latest design tools, relevant technology, along with visual trends across broadcast, digital and social channels.

• Interest in news and awareness of current affairs.

• Possess technical and practical creativity, strong problem-solving skills and the ability to work both independently and collaboratively.

• Knowledge of all the roles involved in a studio program

• Ability to work under pressure in a fast-paced environment

• Must have good color vision and good visual acuity

• Teamwork focused attitude geared toward knowledge transfer within a multi-skilled team.

Education & Experience

• Bachelor’s degree or technical qualification in a graphics or media production related field

• Minimum of 3 years’ experience working within a live broadcast studio environment with 2 years’ focused on studio graphics

• Solid understanding of television production or live production environment.

• Experience of animation and 3D packages such as After Effect and Cinema4D.

• Experience of real-time broadcast graphics systems, e.g. VizRT, Chyron, Avid Graphics.

• Farsi language skills (reading, writing and conversation) a plus but not required.