Motion Designer

4 months ago


Auckland City, New Zealand The Creative Store Full time

This is a fantastic permanent role for a Motion Designer, who is looking to be part of an agency based in Ponsonby, Auckland.

**The Breakdown**
- Creation of 2D/3D graphics and transform static designs into moving picture
- Proven experience across opening titles, social media GIFs, explainer films, hype reels and film
- Storytelling skills and you understand how media is consumed
- Understanding of design principles such as layout, hierarchy, typography, and colour theory
- Essential you use Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, After Effects, Blender, and Cinema 4D

**Summary of Experience**

You will have experience and be happy to step up and lead assigned projects, ensuring deliverables are executed on time and set up to best practice. You’ll need to have a deep knowledge of the principles and styles of animation. Bringing graphics to life by adding movement and motion means you know how to work with timing, and how the animation perspective can change with the position of cameras and light sources.

A no-ego team player, full of ideas, and a good handle on technical production to ensure ideas are feasible, cost-effective, and final outputs are of a high calibre. Championing creativity, you ensure you have a full understanding of the brief, brand, target audience, screen formats, requirements, audio, lighting, and environments in which your media will be consumed. Strong planning and time management, including consideration for the different stages of design, i.e., ideation, storyboarding, script, VO, Audio mix, population, and final renders. You will work collaboratively with project leads, senior designers, CD, sound designers, copywriters, and VO talent.

**What They Value**
- Organizational skills
- Self-motivated and solutions focused
- Effective communication skills
- Good eye for detail (i.e., grammar)
- Takes direction well with ease and efficiency
- No ‘I’ in ‘Team’ - a dependable team player
- Positive and ability to stay calm under pressure
- Strives for creative excellence and uplift motion design standards

**General Responsibilities**
- Champion of the brand, ensuring all client documents are of a high and consistent calibre
- Upkeep and maintain internal processes and folder structures
- Demonstrate technical excellence using the tools of the trade, and be sure to update your software capability and plugins regularly
- Push and elevate the motion design standard, individually and within the team
- Implement and lead assigned jobs from a conceptual stage to the final production
- Optimise workflow and file setup - considering best practice file sizes, the shareability of work across different team members and efficient population
- Good time management and organisation skills are essential to ensure critical deadlines are not missed
- Confident and articulate presenter - the ability to be client-facing and an enthusiastic participant in key meetings
- Awareness of and adherence to deadlines and budgets
- Demonstrate excellent interpersonal communication skills
- Demonstrate excellent written and presentation skills for creative ideas
- Prioritize workload to ensure work of the greatest importance to the business is undertaken to a high standard
- Be punctual and work the hours and times specified which are 8.30-5.30 Monday through Friday
- Support and help develop a positive workplace culture

If you are looking for a role where you will be collaborating with a friendly team - we would love to hear from you.



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