Senior Motion Artist

About the Position

Summary

We are looking for a highly creative and versatile Senior Motion Artist to join the team. You will work across a wide variety of projects as the motion lead crafting and creating a diverse range of motion graphics. An expert in motion and animation in its many forms, you will lead the team to take our work to the next level, using your creative vision and craft to tell our stories. 

Main responsibilities 

• Creating a diverse range of motion graphics across projects to convey the creative vision
• Collaborate with and lead production teams and freelancers to produce high quality motion content
• Maintaining production standards within the motion department and continuously improving process and workflow
• Work on projects from conception to delivery to steer the motion language and deliverables visual language and motion deliverables 
• Supporting from the initial brief and storyboarding process through to execution and delivery across a variety of motion projects. 
• Oversee the work of freelancers and more junior artists
• Inspire teams and clients with innovation and new approaches to projects and problem solving

About You

• Passionate about creativity and design and able to translate ideas into motion
• You are looking to innovate, inspire and lead teams of freelancers and external studios on projects
• Versatile and adaptable with excellent animation skills across 2D & 3D
• Able to design and offer art direction for motion 
• Comfortable managing and mentoring junior artists 
• Curious and collaborative with the ability to work with a wide range of teams 

• A visual storyteller with a deep understanding and expertise in After Effects and Cinema 4D
• Strong attention to detail and an eye for creativity 
• A strong communicator and visual storyteller with a love for your craft 
• Confident and comfortable presenting work to clients 
• Knowledgeable and up to date with the latest trends and softwares 

Experience

[Required]

• 5+ years experience within a creative studio/agency environment 
• Skilled  across both After Effects, Cinema 4D and the Adobe Creative Cloud 
• Strong design skills with the ability to art direct motion 
• Expert knowledge of MG software packages and technical workflow

[Desirable] 

• Passion and understanding of the architectural, arts & cultural space 
• Illustration and graphic design skills 
• A knowledge and interest in 3D/interactive softwares Unreal and Houdini 
• A good working knowledge of Premiere Pro, Photoshop and Illustrator 
• A understanding of UI 

Hours 

This is a full-time position. 

Our working hours are 9:30am – 6:00pm  [Monday through Friday, with one hour for lunch]

We currently have a hybrid approach to working with a mixture of in-house and remote days.

Benefits 

• Unlimited holiday
• Medicash health scheme 
• Company pension scheme 
• Weekly masterclasses 
• Cyclescheme 
• Medical insurance 
• Secondments between our London and New York studios 
• Life and AD&D insurance
• Access to FSA, HSA, and pre-tax commuter benefits
• Training and development opportunities 

This is just a snapshot of some of the perks you can expect at Squint. 

About Squint/Opera 

Squint/Opera is a leading creative studio which bridges the worlds of architecture, design, media, and technology to create compelling, narrative-driven experiences. As experts in blending digital media with physical reality, we help our clients craft digital content to immerse their audiences and communicate big ideas.

Squint was founded in London in 2001, by four young friends who wanted to help visionary thinkers and institutions make the radical a reality. For more than 20 years, we have delivered projects in every corner of the globe and for a wide range of clients across architecture, government, real estate, museums, and attractions.

Squint/Opera is part of a larger team at Journey, which was formed to help companies envision the next chapter of their customer’s journey, and craft a compelling experience across all touchpoints, both reimagined and newly created.

Squint/Opera is now part of Journey, a leading innovation and design agency who specialise in crafting compelling experiences across the physical and digital realms. Together, Squint/Opera and Journey create the first agency with proven expertise blending the physical and virtual worlds at a global scale.

Our Values 

• Embrace change 
• Seek invention 
• Increase our knowledge 
• Say it simply 
• Ego-free

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We want to create a positive impact on a global scale. And to do that, we know that the people at Squint/Opera have to reflect all global lives and identities. 

No matter your background, identity, or even if your experience doesn’t exactly match but you think you could still be successful in this role — we’d love to hear from you!

We work flexible hours, we support remote working, and if that doesn’t quite work, we will definitely listen to what will. We’re striving to create a place where all feel valued and welcome — and would love to hear how we could do that for you.  

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