About This Role
This role involves developing original short-form cartoon content for social media, focusing on bringing characters, stories, and ideas to life through animation. The animator will primarily create videos using recurring characters, backgrounds, and storytelling elements, taking a concept or script through to a polished final video. As an early-stage creative initiative, this position offers significant ownership and the opportunity to help shape characters, animation style, visual identity, and production workflow from the outset.
Responsibilities
- Create engaging 2D cartoon and character-based animated videos for social media
- Convert scripts and concepts into storyboards, scenes, and finished animated sequences
- Animate character expressions, body movements, interactions, and dialogue scenes
- Perform character rigging and create reusable animation setups where appropriate
- Create and maintain recurring characters, backgrounds, props, and other visual assets
- Perform lip-sync and synchronize animation with dialogue or voiceovers
- Apply transitions, timing, and scene composition to make videos visually engaging
- Add basic sound effects, music, captions, and other supporting elements as required
- Edit and prepare final videos for YouTube, YouTube Shorts, Instagram Reels, Facebook, and other social platforms
- Create content in multiple formats, including 16:9 and 9:16
- Maintain consistency in character appearance, animation style, and overall visual identity
- Organize editable project/source files so characters and assets can be efficiently reused
- Collaborate on creative ideas and suggest improvements to storytelling, pacing, and animation quality
Requirements
- Strong practical experience in 2D character animation / cartoon animation
- Good understanding of character movement, facial expressions, body mechanics, and animation timing
- Experience with lip-sync, dialogue scenes, and character interactions
- Ability to create animations using reusable or rigged characters
- Understanding of storyboarding, visual storytelling, and scene composition
- Basic illustration, character-design, and background-design capability
- Good video-editing skills and attention to pacing
- Understanding of short-form social-media content and platform-specific video formats
- Ability to independently take a project from script/concept to final video
- Ability to balance creative quality with practical production timelines
- Strong working knowledge of one or more professional 2D animation tools. Relevant tools may include: Toon Boom Harmony, Adobe Animate, Moho, Adobe After Effects, Adobe Illustrator / Photoshop, Adobe Premiere Pro / DaVinci Resolve
