Studio: Froghouse
Job Opening: Illustrator & 2D Animator
Location: Remote
Type: Part-Time
Responsibilities:
- Illustration: Redraw/revise 75+ animal and people characters based on the Google Noto emoji library to make them easily editable and adapted by children (e.g., no compound paths).
- Grouping for Puppet Animation: Prepare emojis for puppet animation, with a focus on grouping artwork intuitively for movement (e.g., elements of a face are grouped for gross movement but treated independently for fine movement). All assets should be delivered as SVG files, aiming to stay within a 128 x 128 pixel art board.
- Frame Animation: Utilizing the puppet grouping, create proof of concept 2-4 frame animations with each character.
Qualifications & Skills:
- Work effectively in collaborative environments with numerous rounds of iteration and feedback from many different stakeholders.
- Possess prior experience using Scratch or other block-based coding programs, and/or teaching animation to young people.
- Productively give and receive constructive criticism to improve concepts and designs.
- Effectively communicate ideas about animation to a variety of audiences.
- Have an interest in the principles of creative learning and constructionist pedagogy.
- Be proficient in working with Figma.