Senior Freelance Motion Graphics Designer/Animator

We are looking for a freelance senior motion graphics designer/animator who can work on a wide variety of projects, including event openers, explainer videos, and corporate animations. The ideal candidate possesses top notch design skills, is a master of Adobe Effects, and is able to work quickly under tight deadlines. We want to establish professional relationships with the best motion designers in the industry.

Cramer has an extremely talented in-house animation team that may need help on our larger scale projects. That said, we would often need for you to ‘own’ the project, and work directly with the project team. (Primarily the Producer, and Creative Director). This collaborative relationship will require great communication skills, and an ability to translate concepts and storyboards into high end motion graphics. Preference will be given to applicants local to our Norwood, MA location, and who are available to work on-prem 2+ days a week (lunch included). Hybrid solutions remoting in to our workstations may become available after completion of your first project.

*(Sorry, we are not taking applications from freelancers outside of the U.S.)

Responsibilities include:

• Pre pro, design, graphic layout, typographic design, animatic creation, and video editing, compositing, compression.
• Ability to accurately provide estimates based on storyboards and creative concepts, provide deliverables on time, and on budget.
• Manage rendering, provide iterative previews, and communicate effectively with creative leads, and producer, ability to post work quickly

Requirements

• Minimum of 5-7 years experience delivering high end motion graphics at an agency or Post-Production house.

• Complete proficiency with the Adobe Creative Suite, especially After Effects, Illustrator & Photoshop on Windows 11
• Ability to hand off files to and from Editorial and Audio Post
• Excellent file management and organization
• Experience with 3D Studio Max, Cinema4D, Element 3D, Mocha Pro, Particular, and Red Giant’s Trapcode Suites preferred