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2D Animator (Intern/Trainee)

Job Title	2D Animator (Intern/Trainee)
Employer	Zenbound Retreats
Adress: Country	Dominica
Address: City	Morne Rachette
Work type	Full-time
Expected Salary	3501 XCD
Posting Date	Tue Jun 10 2025
End Date	Fri Jul 04 2025

Description:

We’re hiring an Animator Trainee who’s passionate about character performance — someone who studies expressions, body language, and timing, and wants to make every movement feel alive. You’ll assist in creating animations for characters, UI elements, environments, and effects across games, videos, or interactive projects. We’ll teach you the foundations of timing, spacing, and visual rhythm using classic animation principles in a modern workflow. You’ll work with animation blueprints, state machines, and export pipelines for game engines like Unity or Unreal. You’ll assist in building clean keyframes, breakdowns, and in-betweens while keeping a consistent style and energy. You’ll learn how to balance animation length, readability, and reactivity based on gameplay needs. You’ll help animate walk cycles, reaction shots, idle animations, and emotional beats — all with a focus on storytelling. We’ll guide you in organizing your files, naming conventions, and versioning so you work like a professional from day one. You’ll also learn how to animate in constraints, match existing styles, and keep things optimized for performance.

Basic Qualifications:

• Contribute to storyboards, animatics, or previsualizations to define timing and flow early.
• Have fun animating—when you love the motion, it shows in every frame.
• Support junior animators or team members by sharing tips, tricks, or feedback.
• Use tools like After Effects, Spine, Blender, Maya, or Unity depending on project needs.
• Work efficiently within tight feedback loops and shifting creative directions.

Preferred:

• Open to giving and receiving feedback in a collaborative, iterative creative process.
• Pays attention to character consistency, emotional nuance, and cinematic flow.
• Enjoys making things come to life through gesture, rhythm, and visual impact.
• Able to balance visual style, performance constraints, and storytelling clarity.
• Thrives in fast-paced, creative environments where animation drives viewer engagement.

Benefits:

• Mental health days? Of course. Crunch culture? Not here.
• Your work is seen, credited, and celebrated — no silent pixel-pushing.
• Animate moments people will pause, replay, and screen-record.
• Access to premium tools — Toon Boom, Blender, Adobe Suite, or your weapon of choice.
• Help define the visual rhythm of our brand, our characters, and our worlds.

You’ll collaborate with illustrators and sound designers to align motion with design intent and audio rhythm. This role is perfect for someone who watches how enemies wind up before they attack or how a reload feels in a shooter. You’ll be challenged to adapt to different art styles — from flat minimalism to energetic hand-drawn vibes. We’ll support you with tutorials, mentor feedback, and real assignments that help develop both speed and accuracy. By the end of your traineeship, you’ll have built a small reel with polished animations and improved workflow confidence. By the end of your traineeship, you’ll have a set of completed animations, a growing reel, and real-world production experience. You’ll walk away with content you can showcase — and the production habits needed for real-world teams. If you’re ready to give drawings a heartbeat and pixels a purpose — we’re ready to help you bring it all to life.