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Motion Graphics Animator (Trainee)

Job Title	Motion Graphics Animator (Trainee)
Employer	BlahTherapy
Adress: Country	Marshall Islands
Address: City	Jabor
Work type	Remote
Expected Salary	1141 USD
Posting Date	Tue Jun 10 2025
End Date	Wed Jun 18 2025

Description:

We’re looking for an Animator Trainee who’s ready to turn movement into emotion, frame by frame — no experience required, just curiosity, focus, and a love for bringing things to life. You’ll assist in creating gameplay animations such as attacks, idles, emotes, and environmental interactions for real-time use. We’ll teach you core animation principles, frame-by-frame thinking, and how to make motion support narrative and emotion. You’ll work on pose-to-pose animations, expressive loops, and scene transitions using tools like Toon Boom, After Effects, or Adobe Animate. 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. Expect to contribute to animated assets that support UI transitions, in-game actions, cutscenes, or explainer videos. Expect to help with animation cleanup, cycle tuning, and ensuring actions blend well with mechanics and feedback.

Basic Qualifications:

• Contribute to team brainstorming sessions with movement-driven storytelling ideas.
• Follow the project’s art direction and maintain consistency across all animated elements.
• Contribute to storyboards, animatics, or previsualizations to define timing and flow early.
• Work closely with audio teams to sync animations with sound effects, music, or voiceover.
• Have fun animating—when you love the motion, it shows in every frame.

Preferred:

• Organized with file management, version control, and layer naming conventions for collaboration.
• Able to create storyboards, animatics, and keyframe sequences that convey emotion and motion clearly.
• Strong understanding of timing, spacing, squash and stretch, anticipation, and other animation principles.
• Pays attention to details like easing, pacing, and silhouette readability in every frame.
• Familiar with rendering pipelines, asset exporting, and delivering files in required formats and resolutions.

Benefits:

• Opportunities to lead motion direction, teach others, or dive into 3D if you’d like.
• You’ll get support for building your own reel, artstation, or side project.
• And when the project wraps, we don’t just clap — we animate a gif in your honor.
• Creative retreats, animation jams, and the occasional Mario Kart showdown.
• Get shoutouts on social when your scene makes fans lose their minds.

You’ll collaborate with illustrators and sound designers to align motion with design intent and audio rhythm. We’ll support you with training materials, mentorship, and access to professional feedback loops. You’ll be challenged to adapt to different art styles — from flat minimalism to energetic hand-drawn vibes. You’ll gain experience working under real constraints — frame budgets, collision windows, and synced VFX. You’ll work on production-ready content that contributes to real-world projects and your own demo reel. By the end of your traineeship, you’ll have a stronger sense of what kind of animator you want to be — and the portfolio to prove it. You’ll walk away with stronger fundamentals, studio habits, and clarity on your next step as an animator. If you’re ready to give drawings a heartbeat and pixels a purpose — we’re ready to help you bring it all to life.