Senior Motion Graphics Artist

This is a Full Time Job

This role will be for the Dark Burn Creative London team, and based at the Trailer Park Group UK office in London.

A Senior Motion Graphics Artist works closely with both the producers and directors to manage the quality and time required for assets in production, as well as fosters a welcoming and encouraging working environment in the office.

About the role:
• Works on problems of diverse scope where editorial and/or motion graphics challenges require deep knowledge both on a technical, creative, and franchise level.
• Uses good judgment in selecting methods and techniques for obtaining solutions.
• Networks with internal personnel in their own area of expertise.
• Receives little instruction on day-to-day work, general instructions on new assignments.
• Investigates and explores options; generates viable alternatives; recommends the best solution; makes a final decision. Makes decisions that impact their project or initiative. Consults with leaders, peers and those affected to understand the impact of the decision.
• Understands game features, brand pillars, targeted audience, and campaign positioning in depth.
• Provides creative leads with insights of content creative and quality expectations.
• Accurately captures and documents asset requirements, delivery specs, USPs, and other asset dependent requirements.
• Works closely with creative leads to gain a detailed understanding of concept, deliverables, and creative tone.
• Captures, understands and communicates asset dependencies that may impact others within the team.
• Drives/Collaborates to develop and design the creative based on approved asset briefs.
• Guides and mentors other members of the MGX team
• Communicates with people with various technical backgrounds.
• Actively participates in team dailies, providing their thoughts, ideas and feedback in a constructive manner.
• Identifies and tracks internal and external dependencies for their tasks.
• Identifies resourcing and dependency issues with their tasks; proactively resolves roadblocks.
• Manages day-to-day tasks and all projects assigned to them; proactively provides feedback to lead/manager on status of tasks and any changes required in duration, scope of work, an/or completion date.
• Prioritizes problems to solve based on the production/resource/creative objective, short term/long term impacts keeping in mind the overall organizational goals.
• Responsible for risk identification, mitigation and contingency planning.
• Creates detailed plans on how to tackle difficult problems.

About you:
• 5 Years Motion Design Experience with Adobe After Effects. Knowledge of plugin suites such as Red Giant, Boris Continuum, GenArts Sapphire, Video CoPilot would be beneficial
• Photoshop, Illustrator and Design experience is a plus
• Editorial experience is a plus
• VFX, Compositing, or 3d animation (especially roto, 3D titles, situated graphics and VFX touch-ups) are a plus

We can't wait to learn more about you. Apply today!