Planet Nutshell seeks a talented, self-driven, and fun-loving designer/animator to join our team and help us create unique and original animated content. We are a purpose-driven company with a strong focus on creating media with social and educational impact.

Requirements:

1. Design & Illustration: Candidate should have a strong illustration background with the ability to adapt to various styles. Experience creating characters, props, & backgrounds is a must.

2. Character Animation: Candidate must have a strong character animation reel and demonstrated proficiency with creating believable, natural, and cohesive character motions and emotions.

3. Storyboarding: Ability to collaborate with a team and transform ideas into clear and concise visual storyboards.

4. Candidate should have experience using industry-standard design software such as Adobe Flash/Animate, Illustrator, & Photoshop.

Pluses:
– Experience with After Effects & Cinema 4D
– Background in Graphic Design

This is a full time position in our Cambridge, MA studio. Please apply at jobs at planetnutshell dot com

Today we’re pleased to announce our partnership with McLean Hospital, a Harvard Medical School affiliate that is dedicated to improving the lives of people and families affected by psychiatric illness. Two years ago, we were approached by McLean’s On Track program to help them explain how they’re supporting patients suffering from a set of disorders that often strike in young adulthood: Mania and Psychosis and Bipolar Disorder. Our job for the first two episodes was to make these disorders relatable and intelligible, while encouraging young people and their families to seek the help they need. In the third episode, we explained the On Track program, which has developed an innovative and comprehensive approach to helping patients get back to happy, healthy lives.

When I started this company a little less than a decade ago I never dreamed we’d have the honor of working for the World Wildlife Fund. But here we are. I want to give a special thank-you to James Weinberg, a local artist here in Boston who provided the astounding illustrations for this video.

The Script:

The Arctic Ocean. It nurtures seals, whales, walruses, polar bears, and millions of seabirds, just to name a few. This wildlife lets humans thrive here too; indigenous peoples have relied on the Arctic Ocean for millennia.

Today, Arctic habitats are threatened by a warming planet and melting sea ice. Meanwhile, oil companies want to drill for oil and gas deep beneath the seabed. It’s a dreadful idea. Here’s why:

You’ve likely seen oil spills in the news. In 2010, The deadly Deepwater Horizon disaster dumped millions of barrels of oil into The Gulf of Mexico, fouling hundreds of miles of coastline, killing marine and coastal life, and making people sick.

Imagine a spill like that in a dark, remote place, a thousand miles from any port , with ice and brutal weather making cleanup essentially impossible.

Off shore drilling doesn’t just threaten life in The Arctic, it’s bad for the whole planet. To meet goals the US set to combat climate change, we must accelerate our transition to clean, renewable energy and leave fossil fuels under the Arctic Ocean.

In a few short weeks, the Obama Administration will decide whether to offer federal drilling leases in the Arctic Ocean, so the time to act is now. Tell the Obama administration to keep it under the sea. Visit wwf.to/savethearctic to tweet your support today.