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Planet Nutshell seeks a talented Motion Graphics Animator to join our team full time. Founded in 2008, we’re an independent producer of short-form educational and explanatory animation.

Our team focuses on creating purpose-driven media for non-profits, educational broadcasters, and healthcare organizations. Recent clients include The World Wildlife Fund, athenahealth, and Shriners Hospitals for Children.

Our ideal candidate will integrate with our team to design, animate, and composite work that informs, educates, and inspires. Our work is primarily 2D, but we occasionally work with 3D elements.

Requirements:

Above all, our ideal candidate is highly creative and passionate. Other requirements include:

• Strong interpersonal/communication skills. Must be able to collaborate work with others in a fast-paced environment.

• Strong problem solving skills and the ability to think both conceptually and technically on projects from conception to execution and delivery

• Familiarity with latest trends and techniques in motion design. You’re always looking for the latest approaches, filters, and expressions that help keep our work world-class

• Demonstrated experience in a studio environment or as a freelancer

• Demonstrated ability to consistently meet project deadlines without compromising artistic vision

• Ability to multitask and juggle projects

• Openness to feedback and ability to give and receive constructive criticism

• A background in graphic design and illustration is a plus

Required technical skills:

• Advanced experience in Adobe After Effects

• Knowledge of Adobe Illustrator and Adobe Animate with ability to prep assets from both for use in animation.

Preferred technical skills:

• Adobe Premiere

• Adobe Photoshop

• Maxon Cinema 4D

This is a full time position ideally on-site, but for the right candidate we’d be open to the possibility of off site or part time.

Please submit your reel, resume, and a brief statement about why you’d be great for this position to jobs (at) planetnutshell (dot) com.

We’re super excited to welcome Jennifer Sanchez to the family as our staff animator.

Jen has a love and passion for anything art and animation related. She finds beauty in simple everyday things and tries to incorporate that beauty into her own artwork. Her love of food and cooking has no bounds, which isn’t that surprising considering the fact that she practically grew up in her parent’s bakery in East Boston.

Jen holds a BFA in Animation and a minor in Storyboarding from Savannah College of Art and Design. During her time at SCAD she worked on a total of thirteen senior films. Several of them have already debuted in film festivals around the country. You can check out her senior film right here, which will be screening at the Blue Plum Animation Festival in September!

Papi's Bakery from Jen Sanchez on Vimeo.

Claire is a rising senior at Hamilton College with a double major in economics and art, with a focus in oil painting and animation. She just returned from a semester abroad at Tyler School of Art in Rome where she studied Italian, fresco painting, and figure modeling. She is excited to transition from the classical to the digital art world at Planet Nutshell this summer.

When she isn’t at Hamilton, Claire works as a children’s figure skating coach at the Skating Club at Dartmouth, and as an art teacher at AVA Gallery in Lebanon, New Hampshire. She is a Vermont native, and often goes on backpacking and backcountry skiing adventures in the Green and White Mountains in her free time. She can also often be found on the water, between training with Hamilton’s rowing team and ocean sailing in the coastal waters of Rhode Island and Massachusetts.