After Effects Editor for Looping Animations
Role Overview
This role involves creating seamless, looping animations (5-10 seconds) from still images for relaxing YouTube videos focused on sleep and meditation. The animator will work on two visual styles: ambient nature scenes and meditation/energy visualizations, ensuring slow, hypnotic motion and perfect loops. This is likely a mid-level freelance or contract position, impacting the production of 20+ animated scenes over time for a small creative team.
Perks & Benefits
The job is fully remote with a worldwide location, offering flexibility in work hours and no strict time zone requirements. It provides opportunities for long-term collaboration on multiple projects, with potential for career growth in motion graphics and VFX. The role involves creative work in a calm, atmospheric niche, fostering a relaxed and focused culture.
Full Job Description
Headquarters: Austin, Texas URL: http://alexnerney.com
SUMMARYWe are building relaxing YouTube videos for sleep and meditation, and are looking for an animator who can create short, seamless, looping animations (5 10 seconds) from still images. The animations will fall into two visual styles: 1. Ambient Nature Scenes Examples: " moonlit rivers " tropical beaches at night " forest lakes " glowing butterflies or fireflies " calm water reflections " stars and subtle mist Example style: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7lXIgLSKp1g These should feel calm, atmospheric, and relaxing. 2. Meditation / Energy Visualization Scenes Examples: " glowing neural brain animations " frequency waves moving slowly across the screen " light particles traveling through the body " subtle breathing motion in a sleeping figure " energy fields / cosmic environments Example styles: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UnnOYEBzTO8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LFASWuckB1c The motion should be very slow and hypnotic, designed for sleep videos. What We Need We will provide high-quality still images. Your job will be to animate subtle motion such as: Nature scenes " butterflies slowly flying in loops " water shimmer/reflections " star twinkling " mist or fog drifting Energy scenes " flowing frequency waves " glowing particles moving through the body " slow pulsing brain light " subtle breathing motion All animations must: " be 5 10 seconds long " loop perfectly with no visible jump " have very slow relaxing motion " maintain a static camera Tools Preferred Experience with: " Adobe After Effects " Motion graphics / VFX " Cinemagraph animation " Seamless looping animation Bonus: " Blender " TouchDesigner " meditation / ambient visuals Deliverables For each scene: " 1 seamless looping animation (5 10 seconds) " 4K resolution " perfect loop (first and last frame match)
*VERY Important Project Scope We will begin with 1 test scene. If successful, we plan to create 20+ animated scenes over time. When applying, please include: 1 Examples of looping animations or ambient motion graphics 2 Your preferred animation tools 3 Your cost per loop animation
To apply: https://weworkremotely.com/remote-jobs/alexnerney-com-after-effects-editor-for-looping-animations
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