StudioBinder: Motion Graphics Designer

Motion Graphic Designer is needed in Santa Monica, United States.

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Client: StudioBinder

Location: Santa Monica, United States

Contract: Other, Full Time, Contractor

StudioBinder Motion Graphics Designer Job

StudioBinder is a software company located in Santa Monica, and is project management solution for producers, filmmakers and video creatives to better plan and execute their productions.

Explore our video content here: youtube.com/studiobinder

Job Description:

You’d work within StudioBinder’s Content and Editorial team and help with:

• Creative concepting to identify a look and feel for various content
• Animating in Adobe After Effects
• Editing videos in Premiere
• Designing vector-based assets in Illustrator
• Creating shareable, short-form videos and gifs for social media
• Collaborating with a creative director and team to identify new ideas

SB Looking for:

We’d like you to be the kind of person who:

• Has at least 3-5+ years experience animating in After Effects
• Has advanced Adobe Illustration / Photoshop / Sketch skills
• Lives in Santa Monica (or very nearby) so you won’t rue your job sitting in LA traffic
• Interested in the entertainment industry (production experience is a bonus)
• Loves pixel perfect modern design and capable of producing it
• Is passionate for keeping things simple
• Meticulous about organization, clean layer structuring, and naming conventions
• Has strong typography skills and understands nuances of margin space
• Geeks out on motion design trends
• Subscribes to video blogs and channels about design
• Might describe themself as creative, artistic, organized, strategic, detail-oriented, collaborative, etc.

Typical workday:

In a typical morning, you might:

• Get to the office, get settled, join a morning stand-up to update everyone on progress.
• Grab a croissant, and some coffee from the snack bar.
• Sync up with the content editor to get a better idea of an upcoming video and conversion goals.
• Read the AV script and have a clear idea of the video’s goals.
• Head to Pinterest and Behance and rapidly save various inspiring images to source for color palettes and layouts.
• Design (and source vector images from online resource sites).
• Export the final vector assets and jump into After Effects to start animating. But first, lunch-time!
• Stroll to Tender Greens on the Promenade. You pick the writer’s brain on the content a bit more in between some friendly banter about why you think Season 2 of Westworld was just okay.