Find Motion Designers

About the profession

Motion designers make things move with intent: explainer videos, product demos, social cutdowns, broadcast packages and interface animation. The craft is timing and weight — the same storyboard animated badly reads as cheap, animated well reads as expensive.

Delivery discipline matters as much as style. A motion designer who works to a spec — durations, aspect ratios, captions, file sizes per platform — saves a marketing team an entire round of rework.

Skills to look for

• After Effects and expressions
• Cinema 4D or Blender for 3D
• Premiere Pro and DaVinci Resolve
• Storyboarding and animatics
• Sound design and timing
• Lottie and interface animation
• Compositing and tracking
• Multi-format delivery specs

Common specialties

Explainer and product video

Turning a proposition into a 30–90 second narrative.

Social and performance cutdowns

High-volume variants sized for each placement.

3D motion

Product renders, abstract systems and camera work.

Brand animation

Logo systems, transitions and motion guidelines.

UI motion

Lottie and micro-interaction work handed to engineers.

Experience and seniority

Junior motion designers animate to an existing storyboard and style frame. Mid-level designers take a brief to finished film including sound. Senior designers direct: they set the concept, the style frames and the pipeline, and can lead a small production team.

Remote, hybrid or on-site

Almost entirely remote-friendly, with render and review cycles handled online. On-site work appears mainly in broadcast, agency and in-house studio teams.

How unigrig matching works for this role

Say what you need produced, at what volume and in what style. unigrig matches on tools, specialties and availability, which matters for motion work where a single project can absorb a designer for weeks.