We're looking for a Motion & Animation Design Intern to help bring our learning app to life through expressive visuals and animation.
You'll take ownership of our character and illustration work, with a strong focus on animation, helping it feel consistent and, above all, bringing it to life across the product. You'll work across illustration, character animation, and in-product motion.
What you'll do
- Develop our mascot/character illustrations into a consistent, cohesive set
- Animate characters and illustrations with expressive movements, reactions and emotions
- Create animations for key moments across the user experience, such as progress, celebration, onboarding and feedback
- Help build a consistent motion and illustration language across the app
- Contribute to UI micro-interactions, transitions and element states where relevant
- Work closely with our UI/UX designer and developer to bring concepts from design to implementation
What we're looking for
- Currently studying or recently graduated in Animation, Motion Design, Illustration, Graphic Design, Interaction Design, or a related field
- A portfolio or showreel demonstrating relevant illustration and animation work (student, academic and personal projects welcome)
- Solid foundation in 2D animation and motion design principles, with the ability to both create original illustrations and animate existing visual assets
- Familiarity with at least one professional motion or animation tool, such as Rive or After Effects
- Strong visual taste and attention to detail, with a good sense of timing, movement and personality in animation
- Ability to communicate emotion and feedback through motion, and to think beyond a static illustration to imagine how it could move and behave
- Curiosity about character design, mobile products, and interactive experiences
- Comfortable communicating ideas and iterating collaboratively in a team
Tools
Experience with some of the following is useful:
- Rive
- After Effects
- Figma
- Illustrator
- Photoshop
- Lottie or similar
Experience with Rive is a strong plus, especially for interactive and in-app animation.
Nice to have
- Character design and character rigging
- Interactive or state-based animation
- Mobile app animation
- Experience preparing assets for implementation and working with developers
- Interest in gamification, learning products or consumer apps
What you'll get
- Ownership of a highly visible, brand-defining part of the product, from concept through to what users actually see
- End-to-end product experience, working directly with design and development to bring your work to life
- Remote working allowed