Freelance Senior Motion Designer

Craft Agency Ltd.; New York (NY); Hybrid; USD 111,000 - 138,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid working

Long-term booking

Job summary

Craft Agency Ltd. is seeking a motion designer to develop motion systems for technology and innovation brands, delivering sophisticated 2D and 3D work across identities, product stories, digital experiences, and launch films.

You’ll translate complex ideas about emerging tech into clear, intelligent animation, take work from concept to polished execution, and help drive motion delivery within a prepared, long-term booking.

Qualifications

• Fluency with motion design tools and strong typography sensibilities.
• Experience delivering 2D/3D motion work for technology brands.
• Ability to translate complex tech ideas into clear visual storytelling.

Responsibilities

• Develop motion systems for technology and innovation brands across 2D/3D work.
• Translate abstract tech concepts into clear, intelligent animation.
• Drive motion delivery from concept through polished execution.
• Operate within a resourced discipline on long-term bookings.

Tools

After Effects

Cinema 4D

Blender

Houdini

Job description

Join a strategic branding agency that rebrands technology and innovation companies at the moments that define them – frontier businesses in AI, enterprise software and security, alongside some of the most recognised names in global tech and entertainment.

It’s a studio known for strategic rigour rather than surface polish, with a roster that includes brands you’d recognise instantly and challengers too. Motion here isn’t decoration added at the end; it’s part of how an idea gets expressed from the first strategic question onward.

The Role

You’ll develop motion systems for technology and innovation brands – sophisticated 2D and 3D work spanning brand identities, product stories, digital experiences, and launch films. The challenge is translating complex, abstract ideas about emerging tech into animation that feels clear, intelligent and genuinely desirable across typography, interfaces, data, diagrams, generative systems, and particles.

You’ll take ideas from concept through polished execution, and you’ll have the room to drive motion delivery rather than service someone else’s reel. This is an ongoing, long-term booking with an existing senior motion designer already in place – so there’s a resourced discipline to build within, not a cold start.

The Package

$600 – $750 per day
Hybrid working
Long-term, ongoing booking

The Person

You’re a Designer first – composition, typography and systems thinking as strong as your technical craft. You’ve spent three to six-plus years in a design-led agency, product studio or strong in-house tech team. You’re fluent in After Effects with genuine 3D ability in Cinema 4D, Blender or Houdini, and your work leans toward product, interface and technical storytelling over lifestyle animation.

Three sharp projects with a point of view will beat a large generic reel, and real curiosity about technology and digital products is the thing that makes this fit.