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Motion Graphic Artist (After Effects)

Motion Graphic Artist (After Effects)

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Date: 2008-10-03, 12:01AM
WHO WE ARE
Tour Anything builds product and service "tours" - which is a simple name for interactive demonstrations. We use Flash as our delivery tool while the individual tour "chapters" are assembled in After Effects and encoded into FLVs. We also build micro-site, store showcases, virtual "hands-on" interfaces, and other cool online displays. Our clients include Altec Lansing, Brother, Canon, Casio, Fujifilm, Fujitsu, Netgear, Panasonic, Pentax, SanDisk, and many more. We like our clients and they love us. We pride ourselves on being talented, fast, and affordable.
We are new to Portland, just relocating here a few months ago from San Francisco. The town is great and we look forward to settling here and we hope to find more people to join our team that match our artistic quality and personality. The staff here is great, beyond artists we are actors, musicians, filmmakers, writers, one of our artists is even an internationally renown rafting guide on the side - at this very moment he is in India running a river no one has ever rafted before.

WHO WE NEED
Do we need to say talent? Obviously we want someone who can match the quality of work we produce. The tools you must know are: After Effects, and Photoshop. And you will also need to make your way around Flash, and Illustrator confidently. We will be presenting you with assets from still pictures, PDF documents, box art, motion video, 3D assets, and well, if the client gives us a dog we might need to walk it around the block.
Beyond your master of design and the tools, we expect reliability. We assemble a 2 minute tour in 4-5 days of artist time working standard hours and once you are up to speed we expect the same. You get to keep your own hours, work with the methods you like the most and even work where ever feels best to you. We only expect tours to be done on time, attendance to team meetings, and responsive to communication if you happen to be off-site.
We don't require years of experience nor do we discriminate in any way. Your talent will speed for itself. We particularly want someone who like experimenting with visual design and the tools we have on hand. We are always challenging ourselves in making the tours look better and better while finding new ways to speed up the assemble process.

WHAT YOU WILL DO
About 98% of the time you will be building tours with the final compensation being in After Effects CS3. Every now and then we have a need to build a tour entirely in Flash (our old-school way) so we might apply your skills there too.
You will get a script, some light visual directions, photographs, video, logos, stock photography, and more. You take those and create the tour using the client's current marketing material as design inspiration.

WHAT YOU WILL GET PAID
Starting, you will be a contractor. For every minute of tour you create we compensate $650. As your skills grow that amount goes up as we can assign you to some of the more demanding clients. Also, a transition to full-time salary is available as well. There are also various opportunities for bonuses on the occasional job. Salary or Contract, we value our artists and want to see them paid as much as possible. To that end we do increase our rates on a regular basis and pass that on to the staff. As Tour Anything is founded by freelance artists, we know how great it is to have a company that looks out for their team.

HOW TO GET HIRED
Show us your stuff! When you email your resume and link to your demo reel be sure to also clearly tell us what you personally created on your reel. If you appear to have the skills, then we might ask you to assemble a 10 to 15 second chapter of a sample tour so we can see what you can do in practice.
The best thing to do is look at our work and show us something similar or demonstrate your skill at motion graphics that could apply to this type of work. Please take a look at a few of these links for some of our latest work:
http://www.touranything.com/clients/pentax/K20D/
http://www.touranything.com/clients/netgear/networkingOverview/
http://www.touranything.com/clients/fujifilm/underwater45/
http://www.touranything.com/clients/alteclansing/T612/
http://www.touranything.com/clients/brother/MFC-7840W_v5/
http://www.touranything.com/clients/pentax/W60/
http://www.touranything.com/clients/casio/EX-S10/
You can reply to this ad or send your resume to jobs (at) touranything (dot) com - obfuscated for spambots.






Location: Portland
Compensation: $1300-$1500 for a typical job.
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